11. Publish it
(Paper, article, blog post, podcast, video….)
Do something
(Project, outreach activity, conference, thinking!)
Amplify it
(Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, blog post….)
Building up your professional online identity
13. Be very careful with:
Unpublished data
Confidential work issues
Workplace gossip
Too personal things
14. Health Care - additional issues around:
Patient privacy
Patient-carer relationships
Ethics
15. “Don’t feed the trolls”!
Be wary of online debates
turning into ‘flame wars’.
If in doubt, step away!
16. Be aware of the nature of the medium –
missing body language, non-English
speakers, emoticons, interpretation….
Misunderstandings will happen,
but can be cleared up.
19. Principles of Twitter
People write “tweets”: messages with <140 characters.
All tweets appear in a linear timeline.
20. Principles of Twitter
If you want to read a person’s tweets, you “follow” him/her by
clicking on a button (= subscribe).
If someone subscribes to your tweets, they “follow” you.
If you follow someone, they don’t automatically read your
tweets, they have to follow you first.
21. Principles of Twitter
You will be known as “@your_username”
You can directly address people with “@their_username”
You can “re-tweet” tweets from other people, which means that
they are posted on your timeline with attribution to them.
22. Principles of Twitter
You can add a “hashtag” (#) before a word and it collects all
tweets to that topic on one timeline.
For example: #plantsci shows tweets about plant science.
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25. Don’t be afraid to follow and interact with
people – that’s why they are on Twitter!
26. Build your own little network
in which you support and
promote each other.
27. Resources
List of science communication and social
media resources:
http://extelligenceexperiment.com/resources -
Thank you!
