Digital scholarly identity

Digital Scholarly Identity Bala Iyer Babson College Twitter: balaiyer 1

Why go digital?• Way to build reputation• Many of our stakeholders are digital natives• Key to build relationships• Technology mediated networks augments social networks• Sell ideas and influence people  impact• Rating agencies keep score 2

Impact• Scholars like to have high impact• Impact includes both academics and practitioners• Many new channels to use today• Current generation is using new channels• Do schools recognize these new channels?• Are there good tools to measure impact? 3

How do we measure reputation today?• Scholarly articles• Books• Awards -- Keynotes• Impact factor – Citation counts – H-index• Teaching ratings 4

New currency• Content views• Number of followers• Likes. Diggs• Reach of network• Subscribers• @RT• Authority in online communities 5

Activities• Articulate POV using blogs• Create LinkedIn profile• Create Multi-media content• Generate activity streams using Twitter• Participate in communities• Monitor/Curate conversations• Build a following/reputation 6

Me Inc.• LinkedIn• Twitter• Blogspot• Slideshare• YouTube• Quora• Facebook• Stack Overflow 7

Blogs• Record opinion on a regular basis• Passion• Starting pieces• Conversation continues 8

LinkedIn• Profile Page – Portal – Accomplishments – Cross links• Networking• Communities 10

Twitter• Determine identity• Information filter• Hash tags – #MBA8500 – #digitalscholarlyidentity – #andyasks• Lists 15

How does Andy MacAfee Benefit?• Keeps the conversation going about his work. Frequent tweets complement larger, more infrequent ones (papers, HBR articles, books).• Considered a specialist on a topic like the Cloud not just because of his articles alone, but also because he is a filter. Point to other news / resources / posts / etc. that you come across online.• Inform the community when youve written something, from a blog post to a book. 16

Rating Agencies• Klout• Empire Avenue• Identified (source) Not Perfect for Scholars 17

What is Klout?• An application that measures the influence you have within your social networks• Uses as input  Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other SM apps• The scores range from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence 19

The Social Stock Market 21

Lessons• Set goals• Decide identity• Create online content• Share and learn from others• Measure progress• Wee need new tools to measure impact• Start TODAY! 22

Digital scholarly identity

by Bala Iyer on Jan 19, 2012

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