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Enhancing Your Profile Through Web 2.0Eljee Javier Humanities Researcher Development Programme

eljee.javier@manchester.ac.uk@eljeejavier

...your name

...key words in your field

WHAT WHERE

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?”

by default

Alec Couros (2011)

Private

Public with effort

by default

Alec Couros (2011)

Private with effort

Public

Research Profile

• Taking control of your online identity for professional purposes

• Your research area(s)

• Tangible outputs - changing in a digital age

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

Blogs

Twitter

LinkedIn

Academia.edu

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

Tweet automatically

Schedule tweets

Multiple sites

Discussion

• How do you / could you use Twitter?

• What reservations do you have?

• Examples from the group

• Questions about use

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

Discussion

• Do you use either LinkedIn, Academia.edu or both?

• What reservations do you have?

• Examples from the group

• Questions about use

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

EXAMPLES

Discussion

• Do you blog?

• What reservations do you have?

• Examples from the group

• Questions about use

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

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

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

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PreziNing

Thank youEljee Javier Humanities Researcher Development Programme

eljee.javier@manchester.ac.uk@eljeejavier