Ever wonder how to post your academic presentations to social media? Follow this step-by-step guide on how to use social academic sites to post, share and disseminate your work. We follow up by discussing how you can then share via additional social media tools. Disclosure: Author has no financial interest in any of the social media tools mentioned in this presentation.

1. How to rock social media
for your academic
conference presentations
Dr. Janet Corral
University of Colorado School of Medicine

2. This presentation will address specific
social media accounts to use, and in
which sequence.

3. If you don’t have the social
media account mentioned,
or sign up!

4. Your Blog
1Post your presentation to a
publicly accessible space.
Your BlogYour Blog

5. 2Select copyright settings.
If you don’t know, learn more
before selecting!

6. 2Select copyright settings.
If the tool you are using doesn’t have built-in
copyright settings, put © to you, or use the
appropriate Creative Commons license.
Also, be compliant with your institutional agreement
as to who owns the copyright – you or your
institution.

7. 3 Consider allowing
downloads.
Scholarship should aim to improve
education and society 1.
Where appropriate, allow others to
use, apply, adapt, and build upon
your work!
1. Boyer, E. (1990). Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Image courtesy of Lyncis

8. 3 Consider allowing
downloads.

9. 4Share with the conference!

10. 4Share with the conference!
Use the conference
hashtag
(“#conference”) so
conference go-ers
may follow along

11. 5Share with your broader
network!
One convention of the academic community is to
disseminate one’s work. So…..
Help others learn and
apply your work to their
context!

12. 5 Share with a broader
network!
Use other hashtags
to reach the
broader community

13. 6Watch your work spread!
*
*Unless you’re the keynote speaker at a
big conference, 2000 views is more
spread than who attended your
presentation!

14. Lastly…
Share appropriate to your faculty
agreement, and maintain your
professionalism within your community.
Get out there & see what great
work your colleagues are doing!