The document provides instructions for graduate students to create a digital profile by setting up a personal website, establishing profiles on networking sites like LinkedIn and ResearcherID, starting a blog or microblog, submitting works to an online repository, and participating in discussion groups. Students are given specific website addresses to create a profile page, set up social media accounts, begin a blog, contribute to an institutional archive, and join virtual forums.

1. Create a Digital Profile
• Set up your own web site or use your institutions web
page.
o http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/directory/staffprofiles/
• Set up your profile in networking sites
o Ning http://www.ning.com/,
o LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/
o Graduate Junction http://www.graduatejunction.net/
o ResearcherID http://www.researcherid.com/
o Somerco http://www.somerco.com/home
• Set up your own project blog/microblog account
o Wordpress http://wordpress.org/
o Blogger https://www.blogger.com/start
o Posterous http://posterous.com/
o http://twitter.com
• Submit material to Manchester eScholar
o https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/
• Take part in online discussion groups
o JISC Mail http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/
PGR Humanities Information Skills Module 4: Dissemination
November 2010

2. o HNet http://www.h-net.org/
o Postgraduate Forum http://www.postgraduateforum.com/
PGR Humanities Information Skills Module 4: Dissemination
November 2010