2025Q3 Reports: Publicity Director
1. Handbook. - It is continuously updated based on changes in the social media platforms. Publicity chairs are invited to contribute. - The handbook is also in the process of being moved from Google Drive to the ACL HackMD. - A page is created at ACL wiki (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-publicity-information), which has a quick guide to the publicity channels. Since this page, there seems to be much more awareness about these accounts as well as an increase in requests for posts through "ACL announcements", and reducing confused emails to other ACL officers to find out who takes care of the ACL socialism media accounts. Note that Information on the ACL's publicity accounts was also shared in a tutorial in ACL 2024 (Presentation matters) with over 550 attendees.
2. New accounts are created on Bluesky platform (Feb 2025).
3. Overview of Social Media presence. We observe a steady increase in followers/members.
Existing accounts with the number of followers as of 25 June 2025:
Twitter/X: @aclmeeting (21,048), @aaclmeeting (2,336) , @eaclmeeting (4,103), @naaclmeeting (8,510), @emnlpmeeting (14,483)
Bluesky: Similar accounts created as @aclmeeting - https://bsky.app/profile/aclmeeting.bsky.socia, 2,223), NAACL (1,059), EACL (609), AACL (762), EMNLP(1,441)
LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10484931/l We have ACL publicity actively posting on the LinkedIn ACL Group. Workshop chairs and CL journal are increasingly encouraged to post their announcements when they can. It currently has 3510 members.
The following accounts are not very active, but we maintain them in case any conference would like to use them:
- Weibo: https://www.weibo.com/aclmeeting/ (we have lost access as the main contact is no longer responding). We need to find another volunteer to establish it (in mainland China). - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aclmeeting - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aclmeeting - Mastodon: @aclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @eaclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @emnlpmeeting@sigmoid.social, @naaclmeeting@sigmoid.social, @aaclmeeting@sigmoid.socia
4. Upon request from the ACL exec/ACL officers, requested posts are placed on different platforms (not related to a particular conference or workshop).
5. Assisted Computational Linguistics Journal with establishing its social media presence.
ACL Publicity Director report by Sarvnaz Karimi (CSIRO, Australia)