I love social media, I’m Jennifer van Alstyne

Are you a professor, researcher, or scientist? I’m glad you found me.
Hi, I’m Jennifer van Alstyne (@HigherEdPR). I’m a communications strategist. My company The Academic Designer LLC helps people share who they are and what they do online.
I help people share their work in online spaces like websites and social media. I work with professors, researchers, labs, and organizations. View my services.
What’s new from The Social Academic blog
A celebration of National Poetry Month with Heather Sweeney
Heather Sweeney joins me live on YouTube on 4/19/21 to read from her poems about social media. The Book of Likes (2021) comes out from The Hunger Press this month.
Heather, her editors Lena Ziegler and Erin Slaughter, and I will be live in conversation.
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Some awesome people joined me for informal conversations on YouTube in 2020. Check out live conversations you may have missed.
Last Feature Interview: Aaron Shepard, robotics student and 3 time NASA intern
Welcome to The Social Academic blog, start here.
- Learn how to manage your online presence for academics.
- Are you ready to make a website? Check out my guide with step-by-step instructions to make an academic website.
- What social media platforms should you be on? There isn’t a right answer. Here are the benefits of each.
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