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Social Media for Researchers View this guide online for clickable links: http://goo.gl/jX01N
General Introductions The article “Scholar, Google thyself” is a great introduction to the topic. There are a couple of very good and recent guides to developing an online presence for academics:
Piirus Digital Identity health check is a good starting point “Academics’ Online presence: a four-step guide to taking control of your visibility” (PDF) from the University of Cape Town ImpactStory ran a “30 day Impact Challenge” which is on their blog and also in E-Book format (PDF). “How to curate your digital identity as an academic” from the Chronicle of Higher Education blog is also a useful opinion piece.
Blogging There is a growing body of writing about the value and risks of academic blogging. We covered some in a blog post: “Wild Writing or Global Common Room?” but other useful links are:
The LSE Impact Blog (itself one of the best academic blogs out there) has frequent articles on all aspects of academic blogging Pat Thomson also writes on blogging as part of her excellent blog on academic writing and research. Ned Potter’s overview of the main blogging platforms and his excellent presentation on “Blogging for publicising research” The subject of blogging is also covered in the introductory resources listed above.
Twitter There are several introductory resources for Twitter for researchers:
We run a “7 Days of Twitter” (#SU7DoT) course remains open on the blog and the community is out there The LSE Guide to “Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities” (PDF): still valuable advice despite being from 2011. Ned Potter’s “Twitter for Researchers” presentation on Slideshare (from the University of York) – follow up with his “Twitter for Improvers”. A 5-part guide to using Twitter as an academic from the Online Academic blog.
Evaluating Your Impact In order to evaluate the success of your activities, it’s a good idea to rough out what you are hoping to achieve. This blog post from Jenny Delasalle shows how she thinks about her social media activities and formulates a “mini-strategy”. The Impactstory service gives you a dashboard that tracks impact across a wide range of sites. Alternatively, most of the sites such as Twitter, Slideshare, Wordpress, YouTube etc. have their own statistics that you could collate manually. The Altmetric Bookmarklet is free to use and will show the Altmetric data recorded for a paper. This article from the Wiley blog shows how you can use this kind of data for social networking. You can set up alerts on your name and any other keywords to let you know if you appear on the web:
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