I’m touched and a little overwhelmed by the response to my talk at last night’s PressED Conference. I was stupidly nervous before hand, I always am when I’m taking about something a little more personal, and I was terrified my crappy home broadband was going to keel over mid tweet. It didn’t, thank the lord. My experience of surviving precarity and rebuilding an academic identity through open practice and the awesomeness that is WordPress and Reclaim Hosting seemed to touch a cord. There was also a lot of interest in using ALT’s CMALT accreditation as formal recognition of skills that are often built up informally and in an ad hoc manner. I’m now in the very fortunate position that my employer, the University of Edinburgh, supported me through CMALT accreditation, but if anyone is out there wondering it they can do CMALT without institutional support the answer is absolutely yes! ALT provides an enormous amount of support and resources for candidates and there is an active and entirely voluntary CMALT community online who are incredibly supportive and generous with their time and experience.
Back in the day I would have used Storify to archive the conversation around my “talk” but, because I’ve learned *that* lesson the hard way, I’m going to archive some of them here instead. On WordPress. The sensible way.
Huge thanks once again to Natalie Lafferty and Pat Lockley for making this amazing event happen. You’re stars. Both of you.
*pours wine & waits in anticipation*
— louisedrumm (@louisedrumm) March 29, 2018
finding your voice – vital to growth #oep #openedsig
— Teresa MacKinnon (@WarwickLanguage) March 29, 2018
it is so important to have a place where you can just think out loud, which is what I try to use my blog for #pressedconf18
— Fearghal O'Brien (@fearghalobrien) March 29, 2018
I find wordpress to be intuitive, for someone like me who has minimalistic ideas on what I want to do, it does it all relatively easily so long as I keep it fairly simple, and without needing copious amounts of knowledge unless I want to get fancy!
— Fearghal O'Brien (@fearghalobrien) March 29, 2018
@LornaMCampbell Thank you Lorna, really useful #pressedconf18 https://t.co/aY7ppdHt1g
— P Stylianoudaki (@Stylianoudaki) March 29, 2018
"Maintaining Identity & Sharing" The #IndieWeb POSSE in academic action. The connecting of various tubes is one of the most exciting things about blogging/RSS etc.
— john johnston (@johnjohnston) March 29, 2018
You were great! As someone who's been such a passionate advocate of OEP and encouraged so many of us to become champions of open practice so pleased you were able to share your journey with us at #pressedconf18
— Natalie Lafferty (@nlafferty) March 29, 2018
What a wonderful series of tweets by @LornaMCampbell https://t.co/UyYvMHFWVk
— Simon Thomson (@digisim) March 29, 2018
Thank you @LornaMCampbell I have been in a similar situation to you. Starting to think about registering for CMALT and WordPress would be the perfect platform to host my portfolio #pressedconf18 https://t.co/ZHwd1Bjm6o
— Helen Booth (@trixieBooth) March 29, 2018
Long Live @ReclaimHosting !!! https://t.co/J0ZMiQgGh6
— ryanseslow (@ryanseslow) March 29, 2018
Really interesting reflections here on precariousness and using WordPress as a thinking, organising, and development space #pressedconf18 https://t.co/LH2qs70QMk
— Louise Grove (@drlouisegrove) March 29, 2018
This is wonderful. I had to miss the "live" show yesterday, this version is terrific to catch up with. Thank you.
— Mags Amond (@magsamond) March 30, 2018
Great presentation Lorna. My next steps are clear that now I'm operating #outwith an institution, in addition to working on getting my PhD work published, I need to use my WP site to make my academic work more rounded & widely accessible. https://t.co/QBA0kA1WvX
— louisedrumm (@louisedrumm) March 29, 2018
I think this is something we should discuss more widely in ISG as part of professional development
— Claire Knowles (@cgknowles) March 30, 2018
Congratulations and thank you for sharing!
— Suzanne Faulkner (@SFaulknerPandO) March 30, 2018
this is awesome. “revolutionary, humanising praxis” indeed. thanks Lorna & #pressedconf18 https://t.co/8kv8syUgM6
— Catherine Cronin (@catherinecronin) March 30, 2018
What an incredible story- happy you’ve shared this!
— Helen DeWaard (@hj_dewaard) March 30, 2018
I’m really grateful that you’ve shared this. I’m just beginning to use WordPress to build my #CMALT portfolio, but beyond that I’m still thinking about what my ‘identity’ will look like. #pressedconf18 https://t.co/OJumPpybgY
— Kate Molloy (@hey_km) March 30, 2018
There was also a lot of love and appreciation for Kenneth White.
Very inspiring @LornaMCampbell #pressedconf18! https://t.co/R2AmQekdvC
— Andrei Branea (@iab_uk) March 29, 2018
just a lovely choice.
— john johnston (@johnjohnston) March 29, 2018
This is beautiful .. touches my walks home in #novascotia
— Grant Potter (@grantpotter) March 29, 2018
And some interesting suggestions for my OER18 keynote :}
compared to a keynote 😉
— PressED Conf – A tweeting WordPress conference (@pressedconf) March 29, 2018
for the keynote just put up the URL to your blog with the tweets, drop the mic, and walk away.
— Jim Luke really needs a new longer name (@econproph) March 29, 2018
Or do a flipped keynote: we have to read your blog before we come to the session, and then we all tweet during the keynote time while you walk around encouraging us. 😉
— Jim Luke really needs a new longer name (@econproph) March 29, 2018
talking is so passe
— PressED Conf – A tweeting WordPress conference (@pressedconf) March 29, 2018
