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Developing a web presence&
Getting started with blogging
A guide by PhD students
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Why web presence?
Selfish
Own brand
Raise profile
Advertise papers ngage distant
researchers
As! for help
"ncrease #ob prospects
"$prove writing
Philanthropic
Acade$ic outreach
Web is two way
Public outreach
ducation
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Options
%witter
Advertising wor!
ollowing conference hash tags
As!ing'Answering (uestions
)earing about new research
Sharing tales of acade$ic ups'downs
www*twitter*co$
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Options
Static site
Pro#ect description
Photos'videos
+, host Publication list
+ollaborators
-in!s
e*g* www*wordpress*co$using pages
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.a$ple static page
/ohannes 0iocic 1PhD student2 3ndyear4
http5''#o#o$io*wordpress*co$'about'
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Options
6log
Detailed discussion
+rowd sourcing e.peri$ents
S!ills and techni(ues ieldwor! photos
Paper su$$aries
Pop science
e*g* www*wordpress*co$using posts
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Options
-in!ed"n
Online +,
A treasure trove for recruit$ent consultants***
"ncreasingly used by acade$ia
)elps create none acade$ic wor! opportunities
www*lin!edin*co$
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Options
aceboo!
6est !ept for social
6e careful what you share if you are
searchable'inde.ed7
www*faceboo!*co$
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Options
RSS
Where to read all these blogs?
+an be used for #ournals
Rich Site Su$$ary ' Really Si$ple Syndication Aggregates 8feeds8 into one place
9o wasted ti$e scouring sites for updates
e*g* www*feedly*co$
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.a$ple school blogs
/ohn Stevenson 1research fellow4
e*g* citi:en science results5http5''all;geo*org'volcan
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.a$ple school blogs
Darren Wil!inson 1PhD student2 @ thyear4
e*g* conference outputhttp5''wil!insondarren*wordpress*co$'3'
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.a$ple school blogs
Bit +arruthers 1PhD student2 > rdyear4
e*g* fieldwor! reporthttp5''vita$inccs*wordpress*co$'3'=
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.a$ple school blogs
0ichael Spencer 1PhD student2 > rdyear4
e*g* $ethods and datahttp5''scottishsnow*wordpress*co$'3'
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Potential drawbac!s
"dea theft
Don8t put great ideas out there until you have published the$conventionally7
+hasing hits ' consu$ing ti$e
ind a balance in blog fre(uency2 = per $onth?
6log because you have so$ething to say
0isrepresentation ; your writing $ay be ta!en out ofconte.t2 or $ista!es pounced on ; as! your supervisor
about research sensitivity Cou $ight be as!ed to do interesting side pro#ects7
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Successes
/ohn Stevenson
-ive &A on %he Guardian website5http5''www*theguardian*co$'science'3
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)elp7
Search engines are your friend
Hse &A sites li!e http5''stac!overflow*co$'; $a!e sure yousearch before you as!7
Software often has help e$ail lists eg5 http5''www*r;pro#ect*org'$ail*ht$l
http5''(gis*org'en'site'getinvolved'$ailinglists*ht$lI(gis;$ailinglists
Again J search before you as!7
oru$available to help with wordpress*co$ Cour supervisors and peers can often help*
http://stackoverflow.com/http://www.r-project.org/mail.htmlhttp://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/mailinglists.html#qgis-mailinglistshttp://en.forums.wordpress.com/http://en.forums.wordpress.com/http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/mailinglists.html#qgis-mailinglistshttp://www.r-project.org/mail.htmlhttp://stackoverflow.com/ -
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Suggestions
Write an about page for your pro#ect
Ai$ to blog regularly 1once a $onth?42 not necessarily fre(uently
%ry different post writing styles
%hin! about your target audience* "nteresting paper on public
engage$ent by Prof* "ain Stewart5http5''d.*doi*org'=
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Su$$ary
Only develop web presence if you want to
Generally get out what you put in
"nternet is a great resource2 contribute7
As! for help if you need it*