Acts of Literary Citizenship: A Twitter Adventure
Posted: February 6, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentHere’s what happened when I put my students in charge of the @LitCitizen account.
For the past week, Haley Muench and I were put in charge (yikes) of the @LitCitizen twitter account.
Running social media for myself is one thing. Running a Twitter account for a broad concept which has a strong community is quite another. We needed a plan. We needed to figure out what the community wanted to know about, what they wanted to know from us.
Have you ever tried to figure out what people you haven’t even met want from you? It’s some pretty difficult stuff.
Then, we thought of Acts of Literary Citizenship. These are actions that people can take to show their dedication and passion for the literary world. After all, what good is a passion for something if it isn’t shared?
As our professor, Cathy Day‘s, class has evolved, a list of about 40 Literary Citizenship Acts were already compiled. We added about 10 more due to…
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