Post on 03-Jan-2016
Why?• Showcase
– You!– Your work
• Build (Academic) Network• Reach Wider Audience• Expected?• Restore your reputation!
Biography
Research
Teaching
Conferences
Session Outline
• Your Digital Footprint• Developing your Web Presence
– LSE– Personal– Social Networks / Social Media
Your current Web Presence?
• Google another participant (5-mins)– Makes notes– Don’t check with them while
googling!
• Compare Notes (5-mins)• Feedback
Institutional presence
• LSE Experts pages– Includes recent research
• LSE Research Online for your publications– Research appears in Google Scholar
• LSE website – departmental pages– Example of Sonia Livingstone
More about open access• Many universities are setting up archives
of research content available as ‘open access’
• Can be issues of version control & citing
• LSE Research Online: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/
• Can search for open access repositories: http://www.opendoar.org/find.php
• http://www.oclc.org/oaister/
Personal Websites
• Why?– Identity – personal!– Control: content, design, updating– Conversational
• How?– LSE: personal or blog– External e.g.
Social Networking
• Purpose?• Relationships• Public / private• Security
Social Media
• YouTube (videos)• Flickr (photos and videos)
• Slideshare Presentations)• LibraryThing and other social
citation tools such as Mendeley
More help
• Contact us clt-support@lse.ac.uk
• Related Digital Literacy workshops:– Twitter– Facebook– Blogging