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Advancing your Career with Social Media: Ideas for innovative social media uses
Resources for students and researchers interested in using social media platforms for networking, information management and promoting their research through nontraditional channels.
Using Social Media to Increase Diversity & Increase Participation of Underrepresented Groups
Social media and digital platforms can create access to scholarly discussions that are not easily accessible to groups underrepresented in conventional academic communities and can help them establish and promote their reputation. It also allows them to access mentoring and to build supportive communities.
- Retention of underrepresented minority faculty: Strategic initiatives for institutional value proposition based on perspectives from a range of academic institutionsOne of the barriers to retention of minority faculty is poor integration into academic communities resulting in isolation.
Blogging and Tweeting
- Starting a research blogYou can discuss your own work or a peer-reviewed paper. Its purpose could be anything from talking about new research, debunking myths, calling up forgotten science, or explaining a difficult concept.
- Using Twitter to create a community of practiceDiscussion of Twitter as a social media tool to promote networking and interdisciplinary conversations in the quest for open scholarship
Online Journal Clubs
- A guide to starting a journal clubJournal clubs are a tool for staying on top of current literature. They are a staple in the biomedical community but also a useful tool in other areas.
- Wikipedia - journal clubsTraditionally, journal clubs have met weekly or monthly to discuss current research in a topic relevant to the field. An analysis of one hundred publications describing and evaluating journal clubs found that they are most effective if they have a clearly identified leader and have an established purpose that all articles can be linked to.
- Journal clubs in the digital age: Twitter for continuing professional developmentA journal club was converted to a digital platform, allowing engagement by medical professionals across the world. The Twitter based journal club was successful at engaging a diverse audience for professional development