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GETTING YOURSELF OUT THERE…
USING THE INTERNET TO BUILD A RESEARCH FOLLOWING
FOR ARCHITECTURE / DESIGN / CREATIVE ACADEMICS
• Staff profiles
• Networking in person
• Google scholar
• Academia.edu
• Research Gate
• Linked in
• Social media
• Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Pinterest
• Personal websites
• Choose wisely… Not every site will work for everyone.
STAFF PROFILES
• Make sure you staff research profiles are up to date with your
latest projects, publications and images. Adding photos /
videos / links to your work is a good idea.
• Get yourself onto your university’s media guide (so reporters
know who to contact if they are looking for an expert in your
field.
• Add links to your other online profiles to your email signature
NETWORKING AT CONFERENCES
• Know who you want to meet
• Email before meeting
• Arrive early, sit at the front
• Ask questions
• Introduce yourself in person
• Swap business cards and make notes
• Follow up and share connections
• Connect / follow on the internet
• Stay in touch
GETTING MORE PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR PUBLISHED RESEARCH…
GOOGLE SCHOLAR
• http://scholar.google.co.nz
• Create your own profile
• Track your citations (set up alerts)
• Create a library of papers you have cited
• Find other research / researchers in your area
• http://www.slideshare.net/SarahG_SS/how-to-set-up-your-google-
scholar-profile-google-scholar-citations
ACADEMIA.EDU
• www.academia.edu
• Mostly for humanities
• Add your published research (full text or links)
• Track how many people look at your research and where they are
from
• People can follow you
• Find other research / researchers in your area
• See newly published papers in your field
RESEARCH GATE
• www.researchgate.net
• Mostly for ‘science’
• List your research
• Track your citations and how many people look at your work
• Ask and answer questions
• People can follow you
• Gives you a research score and impact points (which you might want
to ignore!)
SLIDE SHARE
• www.slideshare.net
• Upload and make available your conference presentations and
posters or any powerpoint or image presentations.
• Share these to linked in, facebook, twitter.
• People can comment and share.
• Set your copyright preferences.
• Useful analytics
LINKED IN
• www.linkedin.com
• List your qualifications / research publications / roles on your
page
• Make posts
• Connect with people (like colleagues / students / professionals)
• People can follow you
• Join groups
COMMUNICATING ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH IDEAS AND OPINIONS…
• www.facebook.com
• Make a ‘page’ for your research ideas. Make it separate from your ‘profile’.
• Connect / communicate with other people (mostly non-professionals)
• Add or collect pictures / video / links
• Join groups / pages
• Advertise or hear about events
• Can be public or secret
• www.facebook.com/regenerativearchitecture
• www.twitter.com
• Write very short posts
• Add photos / links / video
• People follow you and send messages
GOOGLE+ PROFILE
• www.plus.google.com
• Join communities / groups
• Connect with people
GETTING MORE PEOPLE TO SEE YOUR DESIGN WORK…
PORTFOLIOS
• There are many portfolio / image websites you can
have pages on such as: http://cargocollective.com/
or www.tumblr.com
• Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net might be
useful or youtube https://www.youtube.com/ to
create and upload videos or presentations of your
work.
• Add your work to Stumbleupon
http://www.stumbleupon.com
• www.pinterest.com
• Share images of your work.
• People can ‘follow’ you.
• Collect and make notes on images and video.
• Can be public or secret.
• Good for finding lecture images.
BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER…
POST IN ONE PLACE…
• You can get facebook / twitter / linked in / your blog to link up
so you only have to post in one place: For example:
http://twitterfeed.com or www.facebook.com/twitter
• Here is a link to instructions: http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/solutions/advertising/article.php/3939861/How-to-Sync-Facebook-Twitter-and-
LinkedIn-Social-Activity.htm
PERSONAL RESEARCH WEBSITES
• There are many free and easy to use website builders / hosters
like:
• www.wix.com and www.webs.com. See a list here
• Many of these have optional blog functions and can link people to your
facebook page etc.
• Good for directing email enquiries to and talking about your
teaching and community or academic service.
• Good for listing links to all of your online profiles.
IN SUMMARY…• Use your university profiles well.
• Join Linked In: Good for keeping in touch with what students / colleagues are up to. Address
Book.
• Consider a personal website.
vs
FOR PEOPLE WHO PUBLISH PAPERS:
• Sort out your Google Scholar profile.
• Academia.edu - good for: non ‘scientists’, analytics, finding
new publications, for people doing PhDs.
• Researchgate – good for: ‘scientists’, discussing research
questions, seeing job vacancies.
• Quick reads about academic research sharing sites: • http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2014_08_25/caredit.a
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• https://chroniclevitae.com/news/345-should-you-share-your-research-on-academia-edu
FOR PEOPLE WITH DESIGN WORK:
• Set up a portfolio page. Consider: http://cargocollective.com/
or www.tumblr.com, www.wordpress.com
• Consider pinterest. http://www.pinterest.com/
• Consider a personal website.
• Consider slideshare and videos.
FOR PEOPLE WITH SOMETHING TO SAY / SHARE. BUILD A ‘FOLLOWING’:
• Twitter - Good for: opinion, posting short frequent messages,
building a following, keeping up to date with news in your area
(maybe). Newspaper.
• Facebook - Good for: medium length posts, building a more
targeted group / following, collecting your ideas, thoughts,
interesting things you come across. Scrapbook.
• Blogs – Good for: longer posts. Might be more difficult to get
people to ‘follow’. Can be part of a personal website.
FOR PEOPLE WANTING TO COLLECT IDEAS / IMAGES
• Blog
•Check out the ‘impact challenge’ for academic
researchers for a step by step guide to getting your
research online effectively.
• http://blog.impactstory.org/category/impact-challenge/
