AMS and Social Media
Connecting the Mathematics Community
As part of our commitment to community engagement and the open flow of communication, we use social networking tools to interact with our diverse, worldwide audience. You can use these tools to communicate with the AMS and the math community, and to develop your professional presence online.
AMS Facebook connects you with the global math community. We share information about programs, publications, meetings and math news, providing a place for you to comment, discuss, and share. You can post your activities from wherever you are in the world. Let us know what’s new in your math department, workplace, or math club!
Tips for getting started with Facebook
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Search for colleagues and people you know and send them “friend requests.”
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Adjust your privacy settings. You can choose who can view your profile, photos, and activities.
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Follow organization pages (like the AMS) whose interests you share.
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Share updates about your research, interests, activities, recommended reading, blog posts, etc.
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If you're an author, create a Facebook page for your book.
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Invite friends to events.
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Share details of upcoming talks, meetings, or other math activities.
AMS Twitter is a good on-the-go source for AMS and math news, and a unique tool for meeting and conference attendees. Through Twitter, you can keep your audience (colleagues, followers, the world) informed with brief updates. You can easily interact with others interested in your subject area, post alerts about an upcoming talk, and react to conferences in real time.
Tips for getting started with Twitter
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Set up your account starting with a username, preferably your real name.
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Follow colleagues, friends, and people who share your interests. Twitter’s search feature allows you to search for usernames as well as keywords.
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Choose your words carefully. Messages (tweets) may not exceed 140 characters.
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Tweet about your activities, publications, research, and items of interest to your intended audience(s).
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Use Twitter for crowdsourcing: ask your colleagues questions and find quick answers.
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Use hashtags to add context to your tweet by marking keywords or topics. Categorize your messages by prefixing a word in your tweet with the hash symbol (#). For example, people tweeting about the annual joint meeting will use the #JMM2013 hashtag.
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Respond to events in real time, including that event's designated hashtag (if there is one).
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Use short ("tiny") URLs. There are multiple sites with tools for shortening URLs so that they do not clutter your tweets. A couple of examples include tinyurl.com and ow.ly.
AMS LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking tool for building your career and making professional connections. The AMS group on LinkedIn has generated active math content discussions while offering career information. Join our group to pose mathematical questions, share resources for job-seekers, find potential collaborators, and more. We also have a company page for more general AMS information and hiring news.
Tips for getting started with LinkedIn
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Set up your account and include your resume, credentials, and professional profile photo.
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Upload a real photo of yourself that is appropriate to a professional environment.
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Follow LinkedIn’s guidelines to make sure your profile is 100% complete.
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Include accomplishments, publications, and other relevant information and links.
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Join groups related to your specialization or subject area.
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Write recommendations for colleagues, and request recommendations from colleagues.
AMS YouTube: We post a range of videos including interviews, Who Wants to be a Mathematician games, conference events and more. You can comment on our videos and share them with your friends and colleagues.
AMS Blogs: The AMS offers blogs for math graduate students, job-seekers, employers, early-career mathematicians, meeting attendees, and more. Keep up with our blogs through RSS feed or Twitter, then feel free to comment on the blog or through the social media platforms of your choice.
AMS blogs include
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PhD + Epsilon by Adriana Salerno, Bates College
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On the Market moderated by Sue Geller, Texas A&M University
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Joint Mathematics Meetings blogs
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Graduate Student Blog, by and for math graduate students, managed by Frank Morgan, Vice President, American Mathematical Society
AMS podcasts: A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. The AMS creates podcasts for its Mathematical Moments program, available on iTunes, and posts podcast interviews with AMS Invited Speakers prior to the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings in January.
AMS Instagram shares photos and images for fun and shows followers what's going on -- from the quirky to the informative. Create an Instagram account using the app on your iOS (ex: iPhone) or Android device, and then whether online or on your mobile app you can follow the AMS to find, tag, Like and Comment on the images.
About RSS and content feeds
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is an easy and free way to receive content electronically whenever it is updated on the ams.org website. You can choose what you want to track and how often you want to be updated. We offer RSS feeds for news, new book releases, journal issues, YouTube uploads, Mathematical Moments, and more.
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The AMS encourages your comments, and hopes you will join the discussions both on the AMS website and on social networks. We reserve the right to remove comments that are offensive, abusive, off-topic or promoting a commercial product, person or website. Expressing disagreement is fine, but mutual respect is required.
