Developing your web presence

Matt Lingard & Jane Secker Centre for Learning Technology

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 Media

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

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