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I use this when I can't think of any ideas for a creative writing piece.

You might look at this Joel and Seanna as a way to build our various blogs and social networks. Ideas: create a guide for aspiring English majors, share exemplary writings, push existing FB and Twitter networks, get in touch with more and different kinds of English majors.

Yes, there is a lot of stuff in these guides, but there is much to make you consider as well. This is a collection of gift guides. I would recommend Uncle Mark's guide first because it is relatively short and has ideas for doing as well as buying. The rest? Well, Christmas isn't the only time of year for giving.

good ideas here. maybe ask our writers what their routines are.

That's a good idea, thanks! Might help encourage participation.

This post has given me an idea--we could write an ebook--How to Create Your Own Blog Book or Organize Your Department Around a Blog

Cool category: Discuss Among Yourselves. The idea is to issue a call for conversation over a particular issue. For example, this about.me website begs the question about whether our majors need to not only have a CV/resume but they also need a digital equivalent. WDYT?

A great idea for when you get tired of the hodgepodge.  Sourced Quotes.  Isn't this right up our alley.

Might be some ideas in here on guest blogging.

"The rest of this tutorial will mostly focus on using the Casual Hobbyist solution for launching a podcast. This solution will get you started very quickly and for free. Casual Hobbyist Recommendations: Blog Service/Tool: Blogger RSS Feed Generation: Feedburner File Storage/Hosting: Ourmedia Pros: Free, quick to get started, easy to use Cons: Minimal support, no stats, no guarantee for uptime of your files for download, limited customization of your site/blog, podcast not available right away after upload Hobbyist or Small Business Level At this level your goal is to have a small to medium-sized audience. You'll need plenty of bandwidth as you gain more subscribers. For this I recommend a podcast hosting service called Liberation Syndication (Libsyn). Libsyn offers unmetered bandwidth. This means there is no limit on the amount of data that is downloaded or transferred from your web site. This means as your audience grows you will not be charged more for bandwidth. You pay according to how much data you upload each month. This depends on show length, quality and frequency. For example, with Libsyn's Podcast Basic account, you can upload 100 MBs each month. This is enough to upload a 20-minute high quality music program once a week. For the most part, the guys at Libsyn have done a great job at providing hosting to a lot of podcasters. Their prices are hard to beat. It sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it comes at a bit of a trade off in my opinion. They've had some trouble with downtime here and there. The support is limited as it is only four guys running the company. They're usually very helpful and jump on problems quickly, but it seems they're going through some growing pains. They are also basically still a startup. This comes with some potential uncertainty for the future of their company. Libsyn gives you, in one easy place, all the elements you need (blog, feed, etc.) to publish your podcast to the internet. They also give you the

Very handy.

Potential contest? author has some ideas on how to do this.

Do someting for women's history month? Mary ellen Miller has anew book of poetry? ideas?

Many ideas here for our volunteers.

This is pretty cool and fun idea. A week length project. Get grad students to help? Get majors involved in your classes? Dunno. Might find a friend who might take this on as a one off project.

Just a longer term crazy idea--what about having someone teach a class online or even sponsor a webinar using Adobe connect?

Sometimes the key to finding a way of living in English is no longer defined by progress as measured by which degree you might get, but on resilience with the knowledge you already have? I might recommend a series of blog posts that speak to the idea that the English major is more resilient than most others.

Resonates as a fun idea for us.

Idea of creating apps for English majors--connecting with high school teachers and students to provide content and useful stuff for k-12. Using the university to add value. Interns can do this by proving to be the conduit/hub for all matters English.