make your work visible and build community: a workshop on social media, online communities and more
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Dawn Bennett, Stuart Clarke, Marilyn Coen & Tama Leaver
Make your work visible and build community: A workshop on social media, online communities and more
20 April 2016
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Outline
1. Discoverability & Metadata• Metadata• OrcIDs
2. Scholarly “Social” Networks• ResearchGate• Academia.edu• Google Scholar
3.Dissemination & “Impact”• Altmetrics• Twitter
4.What does Curtin already do?• Elements & eSpace
5. Questions & Discussion
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[1] Discoverability & Metadata
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Discoverability & Metadata
Effective metadata enables your research to be found! Include: Creators – name/s affiliation/s, contact details Funding agencies Descriptive keywords based on the title and abstract Relevant dates Methodology including tools used
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Open Researcher & Contributor ID
Distinguish yourself from other researchers with your own personal, persistent identifier
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Why ORCiD?
Consortium of Australian Universities as members ORCiD is open – no particular affiliation Publishers requirements Funding agencies
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Use your ORCiD identifier!
When submitting your work for publication In grant applications On conference posters Wherever you have a profile In your CV In your email signature
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Be more visible
Publicise your work! Add information to your ORCiD profile and make it public Others may not know your ORCiD identifier – add any
name variants into your public ORCiD profile
http://orcid.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0676-1623
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0676-1623
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-4725
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[2] Scholarly “Social” Networks
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ResearchGate
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Google Scholar
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[3] Dissemination and “Impact”
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“Altmetrics” = alternative metrics(includes social media, news, etc.)
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Big Impact!
EG boyd, danah, and Kate Crawford. “Critical Questions for Big Data.” Information, Communication & Society 15.5 (2012): 662–679. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2012.678878
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Twitter?
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Twitter: Immediate Answers
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Interface with the media
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Conference hashtags (#ir14)
Conference hashtags = specific way of finding your conference on Twitter.
‘Backchannel’ during conference (or just ‘channel’).
Often now used before and after to build and maintain community around specific conferences.
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Publications … (preprint sharing)
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Scholarly Context …
Lupton, D. (2014). “Feeling Better Connected”: Academics’ Use of Social Media. Canberra: University of Canberra. Retrieved from http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/attachments/pdf/n-and-mrc/Feeling-Better-Connected-report-final.pdf
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Most importantly!
Different scholarly areas and disciplines flourish in different online spaces.
There are commonalties, discussed today You should find who is talking online in your area, and
which tools they’re using: that’s your people!
(Still, you should definitely be using Twitter!)
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[4] What does Curtin already do?
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Already at Curtin…
Elements eSpace
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Discussion & Questions