Raising your profile through social media

Dr Nick Pearce, Durham University@Drnickpearce

Dr Elaine Tan, Durham University@ElaineRTan

http://www.digitalscholar.wordpress.com/http://www.slideshare.net/pearcen

Goals for the session

• Use twitter as case study to show the range of possible uses of social media to raise their profile and engage with community of peers and wider public

• Introduce a wider range of social media that can be explored further

Image Creative Commons Thomas Leth-Olsen

Who 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

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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

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• Great networking tool

• Helps keep current• Share things• Find out about

things• It’s fun!

Some reasons to use twitter

Part time and distance can be very distant sometimes…

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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 notify@twitter.com

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 retweeted this

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 favourited once

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 retweet something 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.

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1. Is there any danger of commercial value being lost as a result of your

tweet?2. Do you have the right to share it?

3. Is it likely to damage someone else’s reputation?

4. Is it untrue?5. Could it be seen as offensive?

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Other social media of interest• Blogs ( Blogger,

Wordpress)• Academia.edu• Linkedin• Slideshare• Flickr/

Youtube/Pinterest

Examples from Durham

Feedback and questions?

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