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iCeGS: Creative Solutions for the Careers Sector

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www.derby.ac.uk/icegs

While we are waiting

Install Firefox

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Create a Twitter accounthttp://twitter.com/
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/


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Using social media for

your research and

career development#uoasocialPresentation to the University of Aberdeen

By

Tristram Hooley

(Head of iCeGS)


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Todays programme

0930 Building a network

1100 Enhancing your digital career footprint

1200 Case study: Mark Reed

1230 Lunch

1315 A model of academic practice

1345 Social citation sharing

1500 Blogging1600 Final thoughts

1630 End


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Disclosure/Disclaimer

Im going to ask you to do a number of things in public as partof this session.

You will be posting some things to the web.

I wont make you do anything embarrassing.

You dont have to do anything that you dont feel comfortablewith.

You can take down things that you dont feel happy with afterthe session.


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Research is social and iterative

If I have seen farther

than others, it is because

I stood on the shoulders

of giants.

Isaac Newton


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Issac Newton seeing farther than others,

because he is standing on shoulders of

giants.

Edmund Halley yes but you also stood

side by side with some of us.

Richard Bentley and we corresponded

about your work when I lectured on

Newtonian physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bentley_Richard.jpg


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Social media?


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Social media?


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What is the impact/potential impact

of online social media on research?


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Twitter: a tool for being social

Create a Twitter account

http://twitter.com/

Post

#uoasocial

Follow

@ reply

Search
http://twitter.com/http://twitter.com/


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Using Twitter at conferences

Highlight interesting

points

Amplify the conference Connect with people at

the conference

Participate

Democratise

Try it while I talk


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How do networks work?


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Lessons from network theory

You dont need to know everyone.

Knowing who the connectors are is important

Be aware of what networks you are in and whatones you are not in

Being part of a network takes time and energy

you cant be part of everything.


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Reciprocity

a state or relationship in which there is mutual

action, influence, giving and taking, correspondence,

etc., between two parties or things

OED


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Zella King on networks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj24B8actUs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj24B8actUs&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj24B8actUs&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj24B8actUs&feature=player_embeddedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj24B8actUs&feature=player_embedded


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Why do researchers use social

media?

I think social media made me a better researcher

because I find stuff out a lot quicker. I now have a

network of individuals I respect and am confident in

their work. The network discovers and filters anddiscusses. I have connected my research to the real

world in a way that would not have been so easy

before and maybe not possible. For curriculum

development and teaching this has connected with

real issues that interest and engage students and hashelped them become student researchers in their own

right with a broader and more critical take on issues.

Terry Wassall (Principal Teaching Fellow,

Sociology)


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Todays programme




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Yourself

This is the start of

your online brand

Wh t t l / it d t h l thi ?


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What tools/sites do you use to help manage this?

Who are you connected to?


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Dear Lisa Rudgers

http://www.dearlisarudgers.com/
http://www.dearlisarudgers.com/http://www.dearlisarudgers.com/


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Building your personal brand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-

6Dr5IBvlo

Good

advice

but is Me2.0 what

you

want?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6Dr5IBvlohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6Dr5IBvlohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6Dr5IBvlohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6Dr5IBvlohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6Dr5IBvlo


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What is career success?

Objective

Salary

Status Progression

Subjective

Job satisfaction

Happiness


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What determines career success

Objective

Who you are (demographics)

Talent

Motivation Self-esteem

Social capital

Subjective

Your employment context Who you are (psychology)

Social capital

Note the literature on

career success is more

complex than this, but the

importance of social capitalis well established.

See

http://www.citeulike.org/use

r/pigironjoe/tag/career_suc

cess for more on careersuccess
http://www.citeulike.org/user/pigironjoe/tag/career_successhttp://www.citeulike.org/user/pigironjoe/tag/career_successhttp://www.citeulike.org/user/pigironjoe/tag/career_successhttp://www.citeulike.org/user/pigironjoe/tag/career_successhttp://www.citeulike.org/user/pigironjoe/tag/career_successhttp://www.citeulike.org/user/pigironjoe/tag/career_success


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In summary

Reputation you must be known.

Relationships you must know other people andbuild relationships with them.

The online environment provides opportunities to do

this in ways that can level the playing field.


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Social media: A guide for

researchers
http://www.rin.ac.uk/system/files/attachments/social_media_guide_for_screen.pdf


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How do I use social media?

Identification:Twitter& CiteULike

Creation: Questioning on Twitter, trying ideas on

the blog, recruiting research participants

Quality assurance: Getting feedback on the

blog, looking at hit rates and citation rates

Dissemination: Publishing on the blog, feeding to

Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and CiteULike.

Collaboration: Using Google docs, Dropbox, the

blog, Twitter and CiteULike.
http://twitter.com/http://www.citeulike.org/http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://www.linkedin.com/http://www.facebook.com/https://docs.google.com/https://docs.google.com/http://www.facebook.com/http://www.linkedin.com/http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://www.citeulike.org/http://twitter.com/


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Think of a book that has

influenced your work

http://www.citeulike.org/
http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/


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Social citation/bookmarking tools

Diigo www.diigo.com

LibraryThing www.librarything.com

CiteUlike www.citeulike.org Zotero www.zotero.org

Mendeley www.mendeley.com
http://www.diigo.com/http://www.librarything.com/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.zotero.org/http://www.mendeley.com/http://www.mendeley.com/http://www.zotero.org/http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.librarything.com/http://www.diigo.com/


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Using CiteULike

Using Firefox

Create an account at www.citeulike.org

Add the CiteULike button to your browser

Do a search Look at the Posting history

Watch someone

Explore their tags

Connect Search on Google Scholar or alternative database and

import a reference
http://www.citeulike.org/http://www.citeulike.org/


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Ideas are made of writing

We write our ideas

into being.

They only come to

life and reveal their

glory and their

weakness.

Rewriting is the

essence of goodwriting.

Feedback can

motivate and direct

our rewriting.


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What is a blog?

Short for Web log, blogs are websites composed of

serial short or medium-length entries. Entries are

commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leavecomments and even message each other via

widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that

distinguished them from other static websites. Blogs

may be maintained by an individual or collaboratinggroup.*

* Cann, A., Dimitriou, K., & Hooley, T. (2011). Social Media: A Guide for Researchers . London: Research

Information Network.URL http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
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What is a blog: key ideas

A website with

Changing front moment

Content displayed in reverse chronological

order

Opportunities for comments and interactions

Usually maintained by an individual or small

group.


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Social presence

A blog is a

communication

tool

A blog is the centre of a network


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How

Some blogging tools

Posterous https://posterous.com/

Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com

Wordpress http://wordpress.org/

The technical bit is easy. E.g. with Posterous you

create posts by sending an email.
https://posterous.com/http://www.blogger.com/http://wordpress.org/http://wordpress.org/http://www.blogger.com/https://posterous.com/


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Examples of researchers blogs

There is a useful list on the Vitae Digital

Researcher blog

http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-

332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.html

Do a search using Googles blog search option.
http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.htmlhttp://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332021/Some-examples-of-researchers-blogs.html


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Writing a blog

Decide what kind of blog you are writing

Remember the perfect is the enemy of the good

Social presence is important make it sound like

a person is talking Write for participation. Encourage others to

comment using questions and posts designed toprovoke a reaction.

Use materials/content that you generate for otherpurposes. e.g. post presentations.

Dont be afraid to include short posts and links.


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Getting people to read your blog

Keep writing. There are lots of blogs with only one

post.

Tell people what you are doing.

Link it to other social media (twitter, facebook etc)

Create some posts based on current events,

celebrities etc

Look at what posts are most popular and write

more like that.


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Most importantly why?

Creates a repository of your work/advice/stuff for

you and your students/peers.

Makes your resources available to other

academics and builds your reputation.

Extends your reach beyond those people you can

physically see/meet.

A vehicle for dissemination of your ideas?

A tool for engaging students

It is creative and fun.


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Blogs: A tool for reflective practice?

Do something

Think about it

Write about it

Feedback from

others

Think some

more

Respond and

re-articulate


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My blog

http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com
http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/


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Todays programme




1230 Lunch



1500 Blogging

1600 Final thoughts

1630 End


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My contact details

[email protected]

@pigironjoe

http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.com

Just Google me
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