Your Online Presence - Further Resources
Introduction | Prep | Activity | Further Resources
Make yourself easy to find
- ORCID Links to an external site. - An identifier that distinguishes your work from others who may share a similar name or credentials. Create one and make sure that it is associated with your publications.
- Create a personal website
- Think before adding plugins - a simpler site will be more durable and portable than a complex site
- Check if your campus offers hosting services - many universities have licenses with providers like CampusPress Links to an external site.
- Consider the domain name - do you want to pay for your own hosting, or use your institution's domain?
Control your data - privacy and information security
- Privacy: Electronic Frontier Foundation issues page Links to an external site. - a set of topics and tools to help you control how you are tracked and surveilled online
- Practical Internet Privacy Links to an external site. - A presentation with linked resources from librarian-activist Jessamyn West.
- How to curate your digital identity Links to an external site., from The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2015 - tips on developing your online persona
Design your "brand" and connect with your audience
- Ten Tips for Tweeting Your Research Links to an external site., from Nature Index, 2019
- Personal Branding for Academics Links to an external site., by Stylish Academic managing editor Tee Ola, 2018
- Branding Yourself As An Academic Links to an external site., from Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017
- Academic Outrage: When The Culture Wars Go Digital
Links to an external site., by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Links to an external site., 2017
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, McMillan Cottom offers advice on being an “academic micro-celebrity” for scholars who “violate the assumptions of expertise by being a woman, or gender-queer, or brown or black or working in a language other than English”
- How Academics and Researchers Can Get More Out of Social Media Links to an external site., from Harvard Business Review, 2016
- Build your academic brand, because being brilliant doesn’t cut it any more
Links to an external site., from Times Higher Education, 2016
Measure your impact
- Measuring Your Scholarly Impact - A guide on using bibliographic metrics and altmetrics to assess the impact of your scholarship
- Sample tenure dossier Links to an external site. - Professor of English Ryan Cordell's statements of philosophy for teaching, research, and service
- academic social media measure impact (Google search) Links to an external site. - Current discussions on this evolving topic
Harvard affiliates:
- Harvard's Office of Faculty Development & Diversity's professional development page includes advice on:
- Sign Harvard's individual open access license for self-publishing rights
- Post your work in DASH, Harvard’s open-access repositoryDeposit your data to Harvard's Dataverse
- Apply for HOPE Funds to cover OA publishing costs
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