Creating and Maintaining a Professional Web Presence Workshop Insights
Explore the importance of establishing a professional online presence, including strategies for leveraging social media tools, personal websites, and digital projects to enhance academic personas. Gain valuable tips on enhancing visibility, engaging with peers, and managing online reputation effectively.
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CREATING AND MAINTAINING A PROFESSIONAL WEB PRESENCE H l ne Huet and Laurie N. Taylor
Introduction For this workshop we will discuss how to create and maintain a professional web presence. More particularly we will show how using social media tools such as Twitter or Facebook, personal websites, and digital projects can help graduate students fashion their academic personas.
Introductions H l ne Huet, European Studies librarian at UF. Web presence: Twitter: @superHH Facebook Website: www.helenehuet.org Digital Projects: Mapping Decadence, Albert Huet s WWI Diary, Finding French and Francophone Special Collections
Introductions Laurie Taylor, Chair of Digital Partnerships & Strategies, UF. Web presence: Twitter: @laurien Facebook Website: www.laurientaylor.org Digital Projects/Programs: www.dLOC.com www.dLOC.com/teach/DHinstitute
Why Having a Professional Web Presence is Valuable What are your thoughts? People can find you: can benefit your scholarship and pedagogy. On the job market? Search committees will Google you! Go ahead and Google yourself: what information about you is out there? Depending on the results you are getting, you may want to clean/rethink/standardize your online presence. Ways to connect with others from your field: shape future collaborations, ask for help, promote one another Way to be collegial. With Twitter: the more you use it, the higher it appears in search results for your name.
Things to Think About Don t get on Twitter, create a website, develop a digital project because you think you have to! Make sure you understand what you are getting into: understand what happens to your data, make sure you can maintain the privacy you want, etc. Be consistent: you want to have the same voice/image/persona throughout your professional platforms. For name consistency, consider getting an ORCID. Think about the kind of community you want to be a part of. Be nice to people. Think about who your audience is and who you want it to be. Having a professional web presence can sometimes be problematic: https://femtechnet.org/csov/survivor/
Examples of Professional Websites Emily F. Brooks: http://emilyfbrooks.com/ H l ne Huet: www.helenehuet.org Kenneth B. Kidd: http://kbkidd.org/ Prea Persaud: https://ppersaud.hcommons.org/ Laurie N. Taylor: www.laurientaylor.org Sean Trainor: https://seantrainor.org/
Your Turn: Social Media Twitter or Facebook: Sign Up (professional vs. personal) Follow us and we will follow you back Share your Twitter handles
Your Turn: Websites What kind of information do you want on it? About Teaching Teaching Philosophy Sample syllabi Assignments Research Information Digital Projects CV Other materials of interest Consider the workload for maintaining: blogging can be a lot of work. Can you insert Twitter and do you want to? Link website/Twitter. Do you want to use free WordPress? Have it hosted somewhere?
Other Platforms to Consider Instagram: for promoting digital projects Github: for supporting some types of digital projects Anchor: for making and distributing podcasts LinkedIn: for networking with other professionals UF s Institutional Repository: for preserving and disseminating your research, making it open access. For more information check http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ufir/home
Digital projects? Podcasts: Marston now has 2 podcast kits you can borrow Online exhibits Mapping projects Class assignments can be used to create digital/public projects Other ideas?
Thank You Questions? This presentation can be found online at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/IR00010723/00001
