Social Media for Academics

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This session will demonstrate how to use social media to promote your professional work and to better understand the communication of the future. The focus will be on developing best practices of social media use, with examples from my professional blog, as well as my Academia.edu, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Slideshare accounts. There will also be tips on getting started for those not currently using social media.

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Kimberly Wilmot Voss, PhD

Associate Professor

Area Coordinator of Journalism

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ACADEMICS: PROMOTING RESEARCH, CREATING COMMUNITY & INCREASING ACCESS

Vintage Cocktail Columnist

My Social Media Friend: Laura FowlerSIUE

The Food Section Book

Mad Men & Working Women

Who is using Social Media?

Who is using Social Media?

Which Social Media?

Academic Reasons

•Better Lit Reviews/•Network/Collaboration•Research Opportunities•Analytics\Impact•Beyond the Ivory Tower•Building Community

Academia & Social Media

• Academia.edu• Linkedin • Facebook • Twitter• Pinterest• SlideShare• Blogger• YouTube

My Blog: Women’s Page History

My Blog: 135,000 Page View

Conversation By Blog

Social Media Analytics• Blog: 135,000 page views• Twitter:

• 2,600 tweets• Following: 2,000 • Followers: 469

• Pinterest: • 115 boards & 4,000 pins• 598 likes• 462 followers

Academia.edu• 1,217 profile views• 3,238 document views

Linkedin

Academia.edu

Analytics

Sharing Scholarship

Women’s History Month

•Blogged each day•Created a Facebook post•Bitly & Tweeted a link•Added it to my Google+ circles•Created a Pinterest Board

Women’s History Month

Women’s History Month on Facebook

Women’s History Month onPinterest

Becoming an Expert

Becoming an Expert

PinterestGroup Boards

Twitter

Twitter Shout Out

Twitter & Academic Community

Facebook Repost

Pinterest

Social Media Concerns

Create Personal Policies

Create Community

Share Content

Make Social Media a Habit

How to Get Started

Slide Share

Next Project Came From FB