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From the Washington Post

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The American curve never flattened

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Seeing places with only 30% compliance.

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As seen at Silverstone.

We all have leftover partial skeins of yarn, mini skeins, or scraps. Their beauty just as admirable as when they were full skeins, but somehow feel less useful. Their purpose shifts because the weight isn’t a nice even 100g, but that...

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We’ve all admired the 2018 Yarn Advent Calendars, but it isn’t always feasible or prudent to buy more yarn, especially when many of us have leftover bits waiting to fulfil their destiny. So, I decided to see if I could...

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LIKE MANY AMERICANS, I struggle to pull away from the dumpster fire that is the Trump Presidency. But I can't because Donald's sociopathy is a matter of American national security. To get an evidence-based insight to the one particular psyche that threatens the American way of life, I joined a million others and bought Too Much and Never Enough. RECOMMENDED.

I bought the book after hearing the measured perspective of Mary L. Trump during several interviews. And then I glanced at several hundred reviews of the book and realised it offered deep insights about a broken man who has broken the Executive Office of the United States.

I finished the 214 pages during a lazy Bank Holiday Saturday in Ireland. The book lays bare the myth of The Donald. Mary Trump does not deny reality. She offers a clinician's perspective of a terrible little boy who now compromises the security and prosperity of the United States.

I annotated dozens of pages of the book and then snapped a few shots of my marginalia as part of my Bookshelves Photostream. You can click into the Flickr image above to see several of my annotations.

I recommend you read the book and if you're pressured for time, jump directly into Chapter 14 to get a hard-hitting diagnosis of the leader of the free world.

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus of the Limerick Institute of Technology.]

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All about the egomaniac.

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Get a succinct view of The Donald.

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In Too Much and Never Enough

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A civic duty.

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The Trumps can write their own narratives.

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Donald Trump, the loser.

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A compelling look at a dysfunctional man.

We all have those mini skeins we treasure, smaller yardage balls, and are maybe even eyeing a hand-dyed mini skein set for a daily knitting project. When I dine out, I love a nice main course, but have you ever...

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IF YOU HAVE a worthwhile message, you need develop a rigorous process for sharing your messages across different social networks. We bring this principle into sharp focus as part of the rigor of media writing with my college students.  I have an example from yesterday that shows how written ideas can percolate across several social networks. I believe the process, workflow, and transmedia elements of this concept are essential elements of digital literacy. I also believe students need to see or hear important takeaways related to their academic coursework on social networks where that they occasionally visit. 

Words Count.

I share more by text than through images, video, or audio. That's because I start the process of sharing with words I tap on my mobile phone. When I blog those words, I can see the number of people who read them. I also share teasers of that written information on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Statcounter and Google Analytics show me the number of people who read my teasers and then follow up by tapping onto a hyperlink for the full content.

Students need written text to anchor their work. A straightforward brief helps prevent mission creep. Good briefs (no longer than two pages) keep everyone on target. Sometimes I publish parts of creative briefs as blog posts. In all cases, I send the briefs to my Kindle Paperwhite as Word Documents where I can highlight parts of them for review with Readwise.

The Statcounter screenshot (above) shows that I get more referrers from Twitter than any other social network. I believe that's because my blogging platform tweets whenever I publish on Typepad.

Twitter Drives Traffic

My webstats show the strength of Twitter, serving both my teaser content and as a referrer. When I see my posts appear as tweets, I resolve to create more compelling titles.

I rarely get more than a four per cent engagement from anything I blog. The Instapaper post gained me 3% engagement 24 hours after the tweet appeared on my timeline.

I could pay to promote my blog posts and would do that only after adding a video clip to the tweet. I've reached hundreds more people when adding video clips to my tweets. On one occasion, I've been offered five dollars for every tweet I've published.

Muted Reach with Facebook Pages.

I attract fewer people to my blog when I cross-publish onto my Facebook Page. I know that's because I haven't promoted my Facebook presence. I need to get at least 100 likes of FB.com/makingcreatingsharing before it makes any impact.

When I add my blog content to a Facebook Group, I can double the referrer traffic when compared to my Facebook Page.

There is a vibrant LinkedIn Audience.

During the COVID-19 period, I've noticed a significant rise in the number of people using their Android LinkedIn app to read content I post on LinkedIn. But no more than two per cent of my LinkedIn readers actually click into my website.

People will listen to your audio Message.

I believe my most loyal readers are also listeners. My use of web analytics documents I have no more than 15 regular readers of content I blog. I get double that amount of listeners as podcast subscribers and as listeners on Spotify.

I hope that audio content I create can improve the collaboration we have on our campus. For example, I think we could learn more by collaborating with shared notes and that's one of the topics I've written and spoken about using Spreaker Studio on my mobile phone.

Listen to "Collaborative Notes E533" on Spreaker. Imagery is Important

I started this blog post with a sketch that Rachel Dunleavy made as cover art for a Media Writing Journal in 2017. I encourage students to use Sketchnoting for modules I teach because I believe sketching and note-taking invokes a strong kinesthetic learning response. I can see people clicking into Flickr photos that complement my writing after I link those images to my blog posts and academic material. I believe I can enhance the rigor of learning by adding hyperlinked images to my course material and by asking students to apply some design thinking to the notes they take.

My Flickr stats (above) from the day I posted about Instapaper helping me read deeper shows people who landed on Flickr images that complemented the blog post.

I have to add Instagram to the rigor of getting seen because that is the visual social network of choice for my current students.

I started this blog post after reading a thread by Dr Heather Miceli about "rigor" and then let Readwise.io archive her thoughts in a permanent archive.

I plan to embrace the rigor of reading, illustrating, and speaking about creative media content in my remaining four years of teaching third level students in Ireland.

[Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business on the Clonmel Digital Campus of the Limerick Institute of Technology. Bernie started this blog post after seeing a tweet about rigor from Dr. Heather Miceli in Readwise Favorites.]

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I can find them later in readwise.io/favorites

To celebrate summer, I’m focusing on one pattern from my latest book, Ultraviolet Knits, each week all summer. Today, it’s all about my Altair Cowl. This pattern has the distinction of being the only hat in the Ultraviolet Knits collection. Inspired by...

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Cats find the warmest place to rest.

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Our faithful rehomed cat.