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3. Highly visible with
you Google your
name and institution
Influential
Actively reaching out
Easily findable
on Google but
not many hits
Useful (brings
you benefits)
How would you characterise your
digital footprint?
Large Small
4. Audit your profile
Your institution profile
Your other online identities
Prune/cultivate your online identities
Remove/make private non-professional
selves
Focus on platforms that give you most
benefit for least time input e.g. auto-
updating sites, for example…
Curate your digital footprint
9. Altmetric.com is great for identifying policy
documents citing your research
All forms of altmetrics tell you someone is
interested in your research, but your task then
is to find out why, and if they are benefiting to
assess impact
10. Fractured
digital
identity?
Option 1:
Signpost where
you want
people to go
from your top
Google hit
Where possible get
rid of top results
you’re not happy with
and can’t edit to
signpost elsewhere
Curate your digital footprint
Google Incognito search result from UKGoogle Incognito search result from Sweden
11. Fractured
digital
identity?
Option 2: Bring
coherence with
your own
website
I use wix.com as it is
very secure – with
one of their
templates you can
make a site in hours
Curate your digital footprint
www.profmarkreed.com
17. 1. What offline impacts do you want to achieve via
social media?
2. Who are you trying to reach, what are they
interested in & what platforms are they on?
3. How can you make your content actionable,
shareable and rewarding for those who interact
with you, so you can start building relationships and
move the conversation from social media to real
life?
4. Who can you work with to make your use of social
media more efficient and effective?
1. Get yourself a social media strategy
18. Try an experiment:
Try an experiment:
How big is your news-shaped hole?
Try replacing it with tailored (and if you wish,
more balanced) news and other content via
Twitter
See if you become more efficient in your
intake of news whilst adding value to your
network
Here’s the time saving I made…
2. Cut your working day via social media
19. Average week day news intake:Average week day news intake
90 minutes 35 minutes…
…including active
engagement & outreach via
social media
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
20. How I got 20,000 highly relevant followers in a year
on 20 mins per day…
(enabling Fast Track Impact to become the world’s largest impact training
company without spending anything on advertising)
3. The numbers game
21. The numbers game
1. Set up a professional (project or thematic)
account(s) from which you can promote research
to specific audiences
2. Shop window: leave your 3 most representative
and popular recent tweets at the top of your
profile
3. Adopt a follow/unfollow strategy
4. Check out guidance in The Research Impact
Handbook
3. The numbers game
So, in writing this presentation I came across this amazing picture, well, really a graph of the Internet. Now, I’m not pretending to fully understand this graph, but in essence it’s made by plotting the connections between IP addresses, this map is of the Internet in 2003.
Graph Colors:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
I’m sure you’ll agree that the image is quite beautiful and fascinating to get some idea of how many connections there are in a region, because for the internet, and social media to have any impact on sustainability we need to know how many people we are reaching and where they are.
I find this map easier to visualise.
So, in writing this presentation I came across this amazing picture, well, really a graph of the Internet. Now, I’m not pretending to fully understand this graph, but in essence it’s made by plotting the connections between IP addresses, this map is of the Internet in 2003.
Graph Colors:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
I’m sure you’ll agree that the image is quite beautiful and fascinating to get some idea of how many connections there are in a region, because for the internet, and social media to have any impact on sustainability we need to know how many people we are reaching and where they are.
I find this map easier to visualise.
So, in writing this presentation I came across this amazing picture, well, really a graph of the Internet. Now, I’m not pretending to fully understand this graph, but in essence it’s made by plotting the connections between IP addresses, this map is of the Internet in 2003.
Graph Colors:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
I’m sure you’ll agree that the image is quite beautiful and fascinating to get some idea of how many connections there are in a region, because for the internet, and social media to have any impact on sustainability we need to know how many people we are reaching and where they are.
I find this map easier to visualise.
So, in writing this presentation I came across this amazing picture, well, really a graph of the Internet. Now, I’m not pretending to fully understand this graph, but in essence it’s made by plotting the connections between IP addresses, this map is of the Internet in 2003.
Graph Colors:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
I’m sure you’ll agree that the image is quite beautiful and fascinating to get some idea of how many connections there are in a region, because for the internet, and social media to have any impact on sustainability we need to know how many people we are reaching and where they are.
I find this map easier to visualise.
So, in writing this presentation I came across this amazing picture, well, really a graph of the Internet. Now, I’m not pretending to fully understand this graph, but in essence it’s made by plotting the connections between IP addresses, this map is of the Internet in 2003.
Graph Colors:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
I’m sure you’ll agree that the image is quite beautiful and fascinating to get some idea of how many connections there are in a region, because for the internet, and social media to have any impact on sustainability we need to know how many people we are reaching and where they are.
I find this map easier to visualise.
So, in writing this presentation I came across this amazing picture, well, really a graph of the Internet. Now, I’m not pretending to fully understand this graph, but in essence it’s made by plotting the connections between IP addresses, this map is of the Internet in 2003.
Graph Colors:
Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White
I’m sure you’ll agree that the image is quite beautiful and fascinating to get some idea of how many connections there are in a region, because for the internet, and social media to have any impact on sustainability we need to know how many people we are reaching and where they are.
I find this map easier to visualise.
and when you design remember to keep PUV in mind. Social media campaigns should be Personal Create designs with a personal hook in mind – cultivate the feeling of personal relevance, Unexpected People like consuming then sharing new information through social media. Pique their curiosity and reframe the familiar. Visual Show, don’t tell. Photos, videos – synthesize your thoughts with quick visuals. Visceral Design your campaign to trigger the senses: sight, sound, etc. – tap into emotions