Add your LinkedIn alt tags, or they will call you out.

I'd like to encourage you to fill in the alt text on LinkedIn images.

LinkedIn, instead of properly just leaving the alt tag empty if no description, adds 

 

alt="No alternative text description for this image"

LinkedIn is really calling you out to the visually impaired community.

How to Add LinkedIn Alt Text 

File naming conventions

"Can you help me understand what some IT best practices are regarding file naming conventions? 

I love that I got asked that question.  I didn't have any official answers, except what works for me.

So I looked it up and found these resources:

https://datamanagement.hms.harvard.edu/plan-design/file-naming-conventions

https://datacarpentry.org/rr-organization1/01-file-naming/index.html

This is just the top level info from the Harvard site

Some Good and Bad Examples:

File names with no naming convention:

- Test data 2016.xlsx

- Meeting notes Jan 17.doc

- Notes Eric.txt

- Final FINAL last version.docx

 

File names with a naming convention:

- 20160104_ProjectA_Ex1Test1_SmithE_v1.xlsx

- 20160104_ProjectA_MeetingNotes_SmithE_v2.docx

- ExperimentName_InstrumentName_CaptureTime_ImageID.tif

Some of their overall tips (each is explained more on their site)

Tips for File Naming

- Identify metadata (for example, date, sample, experiment)

- What information is needed to easily locate a specific file?

- Use versioning

- What comes first?

- Deliberately separate metadata elements

- Avoid spaces or special characters in your file names