TEI-C Social Media Coordinator

Overview

• Appointment: March 1 - February 28 (this will give the new Board time to reconsider the position and recruit)

Expectations

• Manage and actively contribute to the TEI-C's Facebook & Twitter
• Curate and post news events to the TEI-C Web site relevant to the TEI Community
• Author blog posts and/or recruit bloggers

Goals for 2016/2017

• Sharing of TEI news, events, meetings and publications posted on the TEI-L mailing list to the TEI social media platforms, website and blog.
• Sharing of CFPs, Job applications, scholarships, grants, awards, and other academic positions and offers from several academic mailing lists, including but not limited to the TEI-L mailing list.
• TEI Element of the Day tweets posted daily on Twitter.
• Communicating and interacting with members and non-members on Twitter and Facebook.
• Hosting TEI Tweet Chats on current topics of discussion, with coordinators of SIGs; Reinvigorate TEI Tweet Chats as a regular monthly social media initiative.
• Curating tweet chats using TAGS Explorer, an online tool for archiving and visualising Twitter conversations.
• Advertising and promoting TEI-XML tools, such as Oxygen XML Editor.
• Participating and encouraging participation in crowd-sourced digital projects that use TEI, such as the Letters of 1916 project
• Showcase active TEI projects (will require identifying projects beyond the web site's list of projects, TEI-L, etc.)
• Setup and broadcast TEI podcasts to facilitate the discussion of current topics of debate, to share information regarding upcoming events, conferences, and workshops, and to showcase the work of the TEI community.
• Create video tutorials and screencasts to integrate an audio-visual media platform for the TEI-C website. Encourage participation from the TEI community in the achievement of this pedagogical initiative.
• Cross-connect with the broader digital humanities/digital libraries communities by engaging in discussions through ADHO, DLF, etc. social media communication channels.

Compensation

• One-year individual membership
• Funding to attend TEI Conference & Annual Meeting (according to current policies)

Call for Social Media Coordinator

Dear Community,

The Text Encoding Initiative seeks a motivated volunteer to fill the newly created role of Social Media Coordinator. The successful candidate will maintain the TEI Consortium's Facebook and Twitter presences and create entries for the blog and newsfeed server, with the purpose of increasing the visibility of the TEI and improving its outreach activities. The role requires knowledge of the TEI and of social media, as well as enthusiasm for both.

The non-stipendiary appointment will be for one year, renewable for another. Reimbursement for expenses may be available for specific activities as approved by the Board of Directors; furthermore funding will be available to attend the annual Members’ Meeting. We will cover individual TEI membership for one, conference registration at member rates, housing at conference rates for the duration, and reimbursement for travel, food and incidentals using the scale and forms published here:

http://www.tei-c.org/Admin/TEI_travel_form.pdf

The work will be conducted in close collaboration with the chairs of the Board and the Technical Council and a commitment to a roughly daily engagement with social media is expected.

If you are interested please get in touch with NAME OF CHAIR by the 5th of April, providing a letter of motivations and listing past experiences with Social Media and the TEI. The appointment will start as soon as possible after such date.

Thank you,