Welcome to the last day of our second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop session! If you missed out on joining us for either session, or if you want to do it all over again, you absolutely can! These posts, as well as the ones on our group site, will remain there indefinitely. Feel free to complete the activities in your own time and even…[Read more]

Thanks, all, for joining the alpha testing group for MSU Commons. Feel free to use this discussion board to raise questions, report bugs, or make suggestions for improvement. You can either reply to this posting or start a new discussion topic if you like.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Hello all! I’ve been remiss in my role as group admin here. What is new? Has anyone published anything SCW-related in the past year or so? Is anyone reading anything interesting?

(I was prompted by this HC Summer Refresh Workshop to post. If anyone would like to join me as a group admin, let me know! I’d love to see more discussion here.)…[Read more]

Hi all,

I hope your time between summer refresh workshops is going well! I wanted to let you know about another summer project @caitlinduffy49 and I have organized: the Humanities Commons Twitter conference, Making Connections. It is currently underway! Follow along on the hashtag, #HCTwitterConf19. We plan to organize the presentations as…[Read more]

Hi all,

The Humanities Commons Twitter conference, Making Connections, is underway! Follow along on the hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/hctwitterconf19?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash. We plan to organize the presentations as Twitter Moments later on, as well. The presentations provide interesting examples of and context for scholars…[Read more]

Now that you’ve finished the Getting Started guides, what’s next? What do you hope to do with MSU Commons? What features do you find most useful and exciting?

The fifth Getting Started challenge asks you to create some content on your site. Once you’ve added that content, post about it here! What did you discover as you created and posted? What are your goals for your site, and how can you make sure your site reaches them?

MSU Commons also allows you to build a WordPress site to use as a blog or a portfolio. Once you’ve decided what kind of site to make and started to make your own, post about your thinking and process here!

Next up, explore CORE. Once you’ve downloaded some CORE deposits or shared some of your own, post about it here!

Once you’ve built your profile, you’ll want to connect with other profiles, publications, groups, and sites. When you do, share some of what you discover here!

Here’s some info on getting started with your MSU Commons profile. Once you’ve built your profile, share a link to it and your work here!

Welcome to MSU Commons! This group is designed to help you explore MSU Commons, set up your profile, start to network, share your work, and create your own online presence. To get started with the guides, visit the group Site by clicking Site in the navigation menu above. Once you complete one of the guides, share your work in the discussion…[Read more]

Do you have ideas about how we could improve MLA Commons? Share them here.