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Using… Blogs to boost your professional or departmental profile

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Blogs

Blogs are a great way of communicating your thoughts and opinions on a subject, or of keeping your audience up to date with developments in your work. A blogging service allows you to create posts that are displayed in reverse chronological order. Typically, you can also apply categories to your posts, which allow your users to find other articles on the same topic. Departments or units can make use of the University’s blogging service (blogs.reading.ac.uk), but for individuals there are a broad range of equivalent options. Many are free, but for a small (usually annual) fee you could add a custom URL, such as www.yourname.co.uk. Continue reading →

Using social media to boost your professional profile or promote your department

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On Wednesday 1 February, Emily Goodhand, the University’s Copyright Compliance Officer presented to the Digital Development forum on how she has used social media to boost her professional profile. (Why not read Emily’s post on the Digitally Ready blog or download Emily’s presentation slides.)

Emily is an avid Twitter user and tweets under the name of @copyrightgirl. By regularly tweeting focused, topical, considered comments and engaging in debate in the twittersphere on copyright issues, Emily has built up quite a following. As a result, she has been invited to speak at a number of events on copyright issues and her views on current issues surrounding copyright and intellectual property are well respected. Having built up a network of copyright professionals, Emily has also built up a virtual team that the University can draw on when complex copyright issues arise.

Twitter isn’t the only social networking tool that can be used professionally, and there are a    number of tools that you can use to boost your individual profile or that of your department.  Continue reading →