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- 1. Managing your onlinepresence This presentation contains content from Dr Helen Webster ‘s The Researcher Online: Building an Online Identity. The slides are available here: http://dh23things.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/the-researcher-online-building-your-online-identity/.
- 3. Aims Not toteach tools, but to have: • an understanding of the ways in which social and digital media platforms can enhance and be embedded in your work as a researcher • an understanding of the issues raised by social and digital media tools, potential pitfalls, good practice and impact. • knowledge of unconventional publishing methods
- 4. Consider three aspectsof managing your online presence • Your profile as an individual • Your outputs – the academic content that you create • Communicating and connecting And doing it all legally!
- 5. Why should Ibother with an online presence?
- 7. Assess yourself Whoare you online? Image: John William Waterhouse, Echo and Narcisssus, Wikimedia Commons
- 8. Activity Write yourname on a post-it note. Now pass it along, 2 people to your left.
- 9. ...now Google yourpartner. • Analyse the results and draw up a profile of information and impressions about that person. Don’t forget to check the images tab! • Now pass it back, 2 people to your right...
- 10. More info aboutyou out there... http://www.nowlookhear.co.uk/katiepiatt/digital_identity.html
- 12. 60% internet usersare not concerned about the amount of information available about them online, and most do not take steps to limit that information. http://www.pewinternet.org/2007/12/16/digital-footprints/
- 13. Why think harderabout this at all? http://www.welivesecurity.com/la-es/2012/08/13/google-reputacion-linea-usuario/
- 14. Tips for managingyour digital footprint Discover it Clean it up • Get rid of old accounts you no longer use (such as MySpace or Bebo) • If you find something that could damage your reputation, take steps to have it removed. Restrict it • Adjust privacy settings • If there’s something you don’t want to lose control of, don’t put it in the public domain – even privately.
- 15. Unconventional Publishing Whymight you consider stepping outside of traditional academic publishing routes?
- 16. Some possibilities…. −Doesnot demand such crafting of hardcore prose −You can explore other tones and types of writing −Become more aware of audience and readers −Learn how to manage colloquialism and levity – contrasted to the “dutiful absolutism” of academic work −Becoming more nimble −Stops yourself worrying that hours spent writing or thinking in what you might consider to be ‘unacademic’ ways eg poetry, short stories, reviews, essays, blogs, etc. is wasted time
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- 18. Excellent example ofResearcher 2.0 Amy Cutler http://amycutler.wordpress.com/ Thanks to Dr Rob Macfarlane for his recommendation
- 19. Managing an online presence: connecting Lyn Bailey Librarian Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
- 20. How do youcommunicate & connect? cc licensed flickr photo shared by ☺ Lee J Haywood
- 21. What do youwant to get out of networking? • Advice – career, research, teaching practice, feedback • Information – new reading, contacts • Opportunities – jobs, conferences, collaboration • Support – community, interaction • Help – new perspectives, collaboration, sharing
- 22. Benefits of onlinenetworking • Access at any time • Contacts beyond the institution, across the globe and across disciplines • Lighter touch – relationships at different levels • Ongoing discussions, not fixed to a particular event or person
- 23. Use Social Mediato connect • Social Bookmarking – Share links relevant to your subject (blogs, papers), subscribe and create online bookmarks, e.g. Delicious or Pinterest • Microblogging – Twitter – Follow academics, researchers, groups and societies in your subject areas, livetweeting at conferences • Blogging as a scholarly activity – Create a blog for colleagues or students • Comment – Start and join in discussions on sites e.g. Mendeley, Academia.edu, LinkedIn • Digital file-sharing platforms – E.g. slideshare, Youtube
- 24. Build your onlinenetworks: Twitter Create and subscribe to Twitter lists Check who other people follow Search via #hashtags
- 25. Managing networks onTwitter Hootsuite – different columns, also stream different usernames. Here @lettylib & @cflcam Tweetdeck – again numerous columns make it easy to track info quickly, e.g. favourites, hashtag search, or tweets from a single user
- 26. Build your onlinenetworks: Facebook Join/create groups in your subject Create page for academic promotion Like pages from societies/groups/ institutions
- 27. Build your onlinenetworks: LinkedIn
- 28. Be social! cclicensed flickr photo by Miss Vio • Interact • Ask questions • Respond to queries • Share ideas/information with others in your network • Collate and pass on responses
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- 30. Contact Details LynBailey Librarian Faculty of Classics Email: lkb24@cam.ac.uk Twitter: @lettylib Tel: 01223 335154 Libby Tilley Librarian Faculty of English Email: eat21@cam.ac.uk Twitter: @LibTil Tel: 01223 767296 Jenni Lecky-Thompson Librarian Faculty of Philosophy Email: jel52@cam.ac.uk Twitter: @LewyLib Tel: 01223 331889