Glimpse Inside MIT's Social Media Portal

A new portal, MIT Connect, provides quick access to 31 key blogs, dozens of Facebook and Twitter pages, 97 websites, and other social media from the Institute's departments, labs, and centers.

The site offers glimpses of Institute life from the fun stuff to the work stuff. Recent tweets from 81 Twitter accounts pop up on the home page—or you can go right to a group, say CSAIL, for tweets on a new wireless center. Page through the Discover section or search for topics of interest. Or click on "89 on Facebook" for a quick-access spreadsheet including lively entries from the MIT Center for Civic Media.

MIT Admissions Blogs offer regular updates on campus life. A Typical Friday Night, by Hamsika C. '13, includes a quick video of students breaking into Gangnam style dancing to the music of a subway musician. Or read the tale of one late night when Anna H. '14 made a birthday cake decorated with a diagram of the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

MIT's Technology Review comes in print to alumni but its online presence includes additional content including blogs. Among the current Views, read Walter Frick's post, "Stop Blaming Lean Startups for Unemployment," and the 40+ comments it generated.

Or watch a YouTube video from the Edgerton Center on Obscura Day, celebrating Doc's famous aphorism: "Tell everyone everything you know."

Get the skinny on what's happening in MIT's own computing central, the MIT Information Services and Technology group. The active IST Facebook page notes what's new in internal computing and points to media articles on the digital universe.

And, of course, MIT Connect offers direct links to all the MIT Alumni Association social media.