This introductory workshop was aimed at postgraduate researchers and early career academics interested in building an online profile. Content covered the need for academics to have an online presence and focused on how academics can use Twitter, blogging platforms (Wordpress and Blogger) and professional networking websites (LinkedIn and Academia.edu).

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2. Enhancing Your Profile Through Web 2.0
Eljee Javier
Humanities Researcher Development Programme
eljee.javier@manchester.ac.uk
@eljeejavier

3. ...your name
...key words in your field
WHAT WHERE

4. Online security
✦ You are already online.
✦ You can take control of your privacy. Learn how, no
one else will.
✦ “Would I say this in public?”

5. by default
Alec Couros (2011)
Private
Public with effort

6. by default
Alec Couros (2011)
Private with effort
Public

7. Research Profile
• Taking control of your online identity for professional
purposes
• Your research area(s)
• Tangible outputs - changing in a digital age

8. Academics and Web 2.0 Tools
To meet other researchers (within and outside your field)
To share and exchange information
To engage with a wider audience

9. Blogs
Twitter
LinkedIn
Academia.edu

10. Using Twitter for academic purposes
• Quickly send and receive information from different sources
• Retweeting = passing on information
• Remotely follow conferences, seminars, events around the world
• #phdchat #acwri #postdoc #UKHE
• Engage with other academics about...
• research publications
• funding opportunities
• jobs

11. Tweet automatically
Schedule tweets
Multiple sites

12. Discussion
• How do you / could you use Twitter?
• What reservations do you have?
• Examples from the group
• Questions about use

13. Using LinkedIn and Academia.edu
• Social networking websites for professionals
• Increasingly used for recruitment purposes
• Both websites allow you to showcase your
achievement, work experiences, research output

14. Discussion
• Do you use either LinkedIn, Academia.edu or both?
• What reservations do you have?
• Examples from the group
• Questions about use

15. Using blogs
• Using blogs to engage with your audience (i.e. research
community, the public, specialists)
• Using blogs as a research journal
• Using blogs for a research project

16. EXAMPLES

17. Discussion
• Do you blog?
• What reservations do you have?
• Examples from the group
• Questions about use

18. Creating a network
Choosing one or two web 2.0
applications as your
homepage
Start associating key words
with your name
Make a contribution (i.e. a
blog post, a tweet, a status
update)
Join and leave conversations

19. Creating a network
Choosing one or two web 2.0
applications as your
homepage
Start associating key words
with your name
Make a contribution (i.e. a
blog post, a tweet, a status
update)
Join and leave conversations

20. Creating a network
Choosing one or two web 2.0
applications as your
homepage
Start associating key words
with your name
Make a contribution (i.e. a
blog post, a tweet, a status
update)
Join and leave conversations

21. RSS
Tumblr
Evernote
De.li.cious
Buffer
Tweetdeck
Twitter
Wordpress
YouTube
Pinterest
Slideshare
Stumble Upon
Blogger
Facebook
Mendeley
LinkedIn
Prezi
Ning

23. Thank you
Eljee Javier
Humanities Researcher Development Programme
eljee.javier@manchester.ac.uk
@eljeejavier