{"id":2788,"date":"2017-02-23T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:00:32","slug":"littlethings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/02\/23\/littlethings\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Ways to Make Things Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something you might not have known:<\/p>\n<p>For the past 3+ years we&#8217;ve been tweeting out little ways to make your digital life easier, especially focusing on often-used software tools here at Swarthmore. \u00a0You don&#8217;t need to be a Twitter user to see these, either &#8212; you can read them right on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/its\">ITS front page<\/a> or on our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swarthmoreits\">@SwarthmoreITS Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesdays at noon (Eastern) we usually tweet out tips (some recent ones include a <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/caL0306ohr9\">cybersecurity phishing quiz<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/BnLN306oijy\">browser-checking tool<\/a> to keep your browser(s) and plugins up-to-date easily. \u00a0On Wednesdays at noon (Eastern) we usually tweet short Lynda videos &#8212; sometimes with more work-y how-to tips (think: <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/ormY306nV1v\">commenting in Google Docs<\/a>) and sometimes with smartphone tricks (think: <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/lBCS306nSJh\">Time Zone Support in iOS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Want to see your suggestion featured? \u00a0Email jprice1 {at} swarthmore {dot} edu and keep an eye out for your tip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something you might not have known: For the past 3+ years we&#8217;ve been tweeting out little ways to make your digital life easier, especially focusing on often-used software tools here at Swarthmore. \u00a0You don&#8217;t need to be a Twitter user to see these, either &#8212; you can read them right on our ITS front page or on our @SwarthmoreITS Twitter page. On Tuesdays at noon (Eastern) we usually tweet out tips (some recent ones include a cybersecurity phishing quiz and a browser-checking tool to keep your browser(s) and plugins up-to-date easily. \u00a0On Wednesdays at noon (Eastern) we usually tweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2017\/02\/23\/littlethings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Little Ways to Make Things Easier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,12],"tags":[150,179,151,180],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-tips","tag-howto","tag-socialmedia","tag-tips-2","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-IY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/3953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}