Lynn Tierney @lynntierney@higheredweb.social

Give me two hours to create a good tutorial document and I will save you hours repeating myself on support tickets.

Technology should really make accessibility hoop jumping easier, not harder.

And so I wave goodbye to short lunch lines on campus. Farewell, easy lunch rush. I will see you again this summer.

OK, I no longer want to be called a night owl when "I keep congressional hours" is a much more dignified way to say "I get my best work in around noon and midnight."

Interesting discovery when testing use cases for ChatGPT: It is really handy for things like "I need articles responding to this particular person's writings." I have an easy enough time tracing bibliographies back up the "food chain" but moving "forward in time" through a chain of #research still gives me headaches. #chatgpt honestly made that super simple. Asked and got three article recommendations. From there I can do "more like" searches easily.

First day back from break and I am already wondering what 2022 me was thinking with certain notes on where projects were left off. I feel like I need to make a documentation guide for myself. 😂

Looking at BU's School of Public Health's move off Twitter and thinking about how this is going to be a conversation many a higher ed social media dept is going to be having in the new year. I've already got a tiny document of notes on Mastodon going.

https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/reconsidering-our-engagement-with-twitter/

I am so sad that I don't live near more used bookstores... and that the ones I live near are often focused on high-end old books rather than "someone sold all their books to us" type materials. I love perusing used copies of philosophy books for people's notes scribbled in the margins, but those are in short supply near me lately!

You know, coming to Mastodon, I was worried I was going to lose track of a lot of people. Since I'm not following Twitter avidly anymore, I am missing people posting their new usernames. Discovery is a bit harder here.

And then the federated timeline brings @TheRaDR into my feed out of nowhere and you know what? The internet just has my back.

I need to visualize the concept of how files share in a particular system for our least technical users. Does anyone have suggestions on what application to use to make such a graphic? I'd rather use icons than labeled boxes with arrows; it feels more intuitive that way.

I've been thinking a lot about filter bubbles today. I have two different Mastodon accounts at the moment and the perceptions I have of Mastodon as a whole via the federated timelines are VASTLY different. Namely, just skimming the "trending" hashtags under explore seems to be a good litmus of who is in your network.

I think as time goes on, having multiple Mastodon accounts might be the best way to go. It can be hard to stumble on new ideas from just one account's perspective.