Do you have a strong online presence?

Vangelis SimeonidisJune 5 2014

Why the hell not?

or

What if you could…

• Grow your network

• Build a reputation

• Get instant feedback

• Start collaborations

• Find job opportunities

• Reach more people

• Publish more

Visibility

• Your online presence is the new CV

• Becoming more visible– Share skills– Share experience– Publicize research activities

When should you start?

• Your personal info and stats are out there

• Anyone can collect and use them, even prospective employers

• Your future position could depend on these, and it’s happening without you

• Publications, impact factors, h-index, 10-index, and all kinds of altmetrics

You already have! You just don’t know it

Where to start?

• How about your home institution?• Usually editable• Will be highly indexed in search engines

• Page does not exist until you create it! At least add a picture!!

Do you enjoy writing?

• Your blog can be your voice• Write on what you really care about• If you built it, they will come• Great practice for your writing• Many careers have started with blogging• My blog is PageV.net• Takes a significant time commitment• Beginners can start by contributing to established scientific

blogs

• WordPress, Blogger (blogspot), tumblr

Are you a brand?

• Decide what you want other people to identify you with

• For some it could be their name, or a field of research, or the name of a method/software

• Douglas Kell IS DBK• Marleen Eijkholt IS Marleen.Neuroethics• Pedro Mendes IS Dr_gepasi• Lee Hood IS ISBLeeHood

BUT Social Media means being on

?

• Best kept private?• Maybe not the best promotional tool for individuals, but a GREAT one for

companies and institutions• Story of the “embarrassing photo”• … or worse

Social networks that resemble resumes

• Professional networks• Link to people in your domain• Who you link to says a lot about you• Expose your work, skills, interests• Your profile WILL be seen!

Social networks built for scientists

• Millions of members• (Slightly) different focus for each• Go hand in hand with OA movement and

#altmetrics• Big players jumping in the game, landscape is

rapidly changing

#altmetrics

• Altmetrics sources: ImpactStory, altmetric.com, Plum Analytics, CitedIn, Mendeley, CiteULike

• Article level metrics. Sprang out of the #altmetrics hashtag

• BioMed Central, PLoS, Frontiers, Nature PG, Elsevier are all making various use of altmetrics

• 140 characters per posting

• Follow other users; almost all have their streams set to open

• Think of twitter as micro-blogging

• People live-blog from conferences or talks

• Keep up with research and news

• Ask for help (#iCanHazPdf), share expertise, join discussions

• Find publications, news, positions

• Build an audience (1500 tweets, 350 followers, 500 following, and going)

• Faster and more direct than email

• ISB, many ISBers and the Price Lab are on twitter

• It really is like facebook• Only a lot more geeky and technical• One big benefit: Google Hangouts• The ISB and the Price Lab are on G+ too

Share your slides, posters & figures

• Publicize your work and ideas• Share your expertise• Increase your audience• Talks and posters can go up here• They WILL be seen ( more than 5000 views and

100s downloads for my slides and posters)

… and more

• Citations: Google Scholar

• Altmetrics: ImpactStory

• Papers and researchers: Microsoft Academic Search

• Emphasize your uniqueness: ORCiD

• Videos: YouTube, Vimeo, SlideShare

• Web search engine for scholarly literature

• Indexes journals, reports, preprints, theses, books and other sources (even webpages)

• Metrics may not always be accurate

Co-author graphs on MS Academic Search

…and Erdos number!

ORCiD: 0000-0001-6153-4493

• Unique identifier for each scientist

• Anyone can sign up

• Not many services use it yet, but this is likely to change

Social media and OA

• Sharing and social media participation go hand in hand with the Open Access movement

• The mentality behind both is the same

• Openness and cooperation is at the core of both

• OA journals, preprint servers, and proponents of OA are some of the biggest participants (e.g. Michael Eisen - @mbeisen & “it is NOT junk”)

Many other ways to contribute

• Blog• Edit• Wikis, Wikipedia• Share your work (preprints, slides, figures)• Share code (github)• Deposit to databases• Follow community standards

• Publish or Perish Share or Suffer!

Preprint servers

• arXiv

• figshare

• PeerJ

• F1000Research

• GitHub

• even ResearchGate

Benefits of participation

• Reputation

• Praise

• Networking

• Your work WILL be seen!

• New collaborations

• Greater reach

So why are you still here?Just do it!

Thank you

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blog: PageV.net

slides: slideshare.net/vangos7