Raising your profile through social media
Dr Nick Pearce, Durham University@Drnickpearce
Elaine Tan, Durham University@ElaineRTan
http://www.digitalscholar.wordpress.com/http://www.slideshare.net/pearcen
Goals for the sessionImage Creative Commons Thomas Leth-Olsen
are you?
Copyright Monkey
Hopes, Fears and Expectations
You can post these anonymously here
http://goo.gl/OuhE3u
Creative Commons image ‘Titanic Commemorated’ Kate Ter Haar
Ego surfing
• Search for yourself online– First just your name– Then your name and institution– Your supervisor(s)– Then just your topic(s) of
interest/ expertise
• What do you find?– Post to
http://goo.gl/CCftZ3
More academically…
Academia.edu My paper on donuts in 19th
French literature
Slideshare.net My slides from the 3rd
European Conf. on
Donuts in Literature
Wordpress.com My thoughts about donuts in general
Mendeley My bibliography about donuts in literature
Creative Commons Image Roger Ferrer Ibáñez
Twitter presence of Durham PhD Students
Create your twitter profile
• Go to twitter.com and ‘sign up’
– Put some thought into pic and profile
• Like speed dating!
– Create inbox folder for email from [email protected]
Use a disclaimer such as "the views contained in these web pages are my personal views and do not represent the views of Durham University
Think keywords and a disclaimer
Anatomy of TweetSomeone who I follow retweetedthis
Hashtag to add to a conversation
Shortened URL –saves on characters!
Avatar of original poster
@ replies to individuals. Appears in their tweets and replies
This tweet has been favouritedonce
It’s been retweeted twice
Follow the original poster
MoreShare something privately with someone else on twitter
Share a link to the tweet directly- cite or share with non twitter users
Will create HTML code so I can embed this tweet in my blog/website
Hide tweets from Doug, I don’t want him in my feed anymore. We’ll still be able to interact using @ with each other.
Unfollow Doug. He also won’t be able to interact with me using @ anymore.
I find Doug’s tweet offensive. Twitter look at this please
Even More…RT – Directly retweetsomething you’ve found
RT with comment – will display full RT but with comment
Develop your twitter profile
• Follow interesting people
• See who other people follow
• 3rd party apps
• Opportunities for funding, conferences, call for papers
What you can’t do…
https://www.dur.ac.uk/cis/lt/video/defamation-and-libel/
Avoid: proprietary, copyrighted, defamatory, libellous or obscene.
Creative commons Joe Bielawa
Image Creative Commons Iko
• Blogs ( Blogger,
Wordpress)
• Academia.edu
• Slideshare
• Flickr/ Youtube/Pinterest
Examples from Durham
http://goo.gl/hz0gcE
Image Creative Commons Marcello Maria Perongini
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