2024Q3 Reports: Publicity Director

1. Handbook. It is continuously updated based on changes in the social media platforms. Publicity chairs are invited to contribute to that.

2. Overview of Social Media presence. We observe a steady increase in followers/members, except for Instagram (which is only used during on-site conferences and was active last time in 2019).

Existing accounts:

Twitter: @aclmeeting, @aaclmeeting, @eaclmeeting, @naaclmeeting, @emnlpmeeting (used since 2021), Weibo: https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/ Mastodon: @aclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @eaclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @emnlpmeeting@sigmoid.social, @naaclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @aaclmeeting@sigmoid.social We have seen a hike in LinkedIn ACL Group users in the recent past as well.

Twitter seems to be the most followed social media platform with the most engagement. There are 18.7K followers in just @aclmeeting Twitter account.

3. Upon request from the ACL exec/ACL officers, requested posts are placed on different platforms (not related to a particular conference and workshop).

4. Information on the ACL's publicity accounts will be shared in a tutorial in ACL 2024 (Presentation matters).

ACL Publicity Director report by Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)