Describing personal views on how social media (Twiiter, ResearchGate, Mendeley, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, YouTube) can be used when you are an Academic. What to look for and how to use them.
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3. Should academics use social
media?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/06/se
rious-academics-should-use-social-media/#78b9b6304fb1
4. Potential Benefits
Help you create an online identity / profile
If you don’t exist online…simply you don’t exist (for
many people at least)
Stathis Konstantinidis
This person does not exist!!!
5. Potential Benefits
Make new connections
It is a very good way to “virtual” meet colleagues around
the world
6. Potential Benefits
Keep up to date with the latest research to your field
Projects
Funding
Research articles
Conferences
Events
Research New
Industry updates
7. Who new about your new
article or your new project
before Social Media?
Potential Benefits
Promote your work to your peers and the public at large
And now?
8. Personal and academic social
media
Are you a different person when you live the University?
Do your ethics change when you are at home?
http://staging.sickchirpse.com/university-of-manchester-professor-leads-double-life-as-a-porn-star/
9. Yes but…
I share pictures with my friends on fb that I do not want
to be seen by my students…
The Gold rule…
… something like an RCT:
“Whatever you don’t want to be shared do
not upload it in any social media site… and
if possible keep it offline”
13. Which should I use?
All of them
As much as you can
What it fit better to your style
What do you want to do? Connect with peers, promote
your research, promote your educational material...
19. How to attract more
followers
Follow your friends and colleagues, usually they will follow
you back
Check the “who to follow” button
If you haven't a username yet, keep it fairly short and avoid
numbers or underlines
Make sure that you have a nice picture and a short bio
Be active on twitter (Do not overdo it!)
Do not be afraid to follow people, they might follow back.
Use hashtags in your tweets
Participate on twitter chats Create a PLN
Mention people in your tweets who are relevant with the
tweet
Add your Twitter ID to all of your signatures
The best ever
tweet…
Who reads your
tweets?
20. What to tweet?
Interesting Articles
News
Retweets (be a transmitter for other people’s interesting
tweets)
RT: @yourusername
Events/ conferences
Use photos, conference hashtag, speaker username
Short your long URLs with http://tinyurl.com/ or
http://bit.ly/
Select different time of the day for your tweets.
26. ResearchGate.net (EU based)
Academia.edu (US based)
Benefits
Increase the dissemination of your research outputs.
Connections with other researchers
Find full-text papers, conference papers, abstracts
Ask questions, get answers.
Find the right job
But
Commercial operations – Probably some kind of return in
the future?
Not an Open Access repository by funders
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Criticize/235102
27. Where to store your research
papers?
Adapted from Ellen Fest, Seven questions about ResearchGate
https://www.slideshare.net/EllenFest/seven-questions-about-researchgate
28. ResearchGate.net (EU based)
Link to articles were possible
Respond to papers request by other academics
Turn Email notifications on
Do not trust the cite statistics…
www.researchgate.net
29. Mendeley
a free reference manager and academic social network
Find groups with relevant research papers
Easy to update your presentation if you use them as a
reference manager
Research Data Repository
Careers
Limitations are the same with Researchgate
35. Keep in touch / Sharing
Useful Information
Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
36. Make Your Research Articles
Visible
Google Scholar
ResearchGate.net
Mendeley
Academia.edu
Do not forget to add full text to your institutional
repository
Do not forget to update your institutional personal
website
37. How can you make a good use
of social media
Understand the importance of having a relevant bio on
their own online profiles
Connect with other professionals outside of your own
institutional network of peers
Take advantage of anytime anyplace CPD opportunities
and realise the value of self-determined learning
Developing and owning their own professional online
presence by sharing achievements of self AND others
Sue Beckingham (2015) The Academics’ Guide to Social Media [a slide form presentation].
https://www.slideshare.net/suebeckingham/the-academics-guide-to-social-media
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38. Good use of social media
add presentations to SlideShare and sharing also on your
LinkedIn / twitter / facebook profile
add your publications to your LinkedIn profile /
ResearchGate/ Academia.edu/ Mendeley / Google Scholar:
articles, press releases, papers, books and chapters
add projects you are involved in along with the names of
those you are collaborating with (LinkedIn, ResearcgGate,
Mendeley)
write guest posts for other peoples’ blogs, websites and
digital magazines and share them through Social Media
write your own blog and share a link via Twitter/ Facebook
/ LinkedIn
write a LinkedIn post and updates which include links to
useful content
Sue Beckingham (2015) The Academics’ Guide to Social Media [a slide form presentation].
https://www.slideshare.net/suebeckingham/the-academics-guide-to-social-media
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39. Thank You!!!
Dr. Stathis Th. Konstantinidis
Assist. Prof. in e-Learning and Health Informatics
Health E-learning & Media (HELM) Team
Digital Innovations in Healthcare and Education (DICE)
Research Group
School of Health Sciences
The University of Nottingham
twitter: @staconst
E-mail: Stathis.Konstantinidis@Nottingham.ac.uk
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