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Learn how to effectively utilize social media for promoting research, engaging followers, and creating valuable content. Explore strategies to enhance online presence and interaction within the academic community. Discover methods to maintain interest and amplify reach through tools like RSS feeds and Tweetdeck. Take your research group's online presence to the next level with these practical tips.
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RGS-IBG Research Groups and Social Media James Cheshire UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis james.cheshire@ucl.ac.uk @spatialanalysis
About Me • Lecturer at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). • Secretary GIScience Research Group • Enjoy blogging for both spatial.ly and mappinglondon.co.uk. • Twitter: @spatialanalysis and @maplondon
The Value of Social Media • Promotion • Interaction
General Principles • Quality not quantity of followers important. • @Maplondon has fewer than ½ the followers that @spatialanalysis has but I would argue is more influential. • Not all your followers are real people. • People who don’t follow you may still find content • Via Google or other users.
Why people will follow: Name • You have two on Twitter: • I am James Cheshire and @spatialanalysis • Need to be recognisable. RT @tgrg4: Check out our latest post on… Vs RT @transportgeography: Check out our latest post on… Or RT @TrnsptGeo: Check out our latest post on… • Encourage people to click on your profile. • @Floating_Sheep is a group of geographers…you need to click on them to find out more.
Why people will follow: Affiliation/ Endorsement • Not to be underestimated – there is a lot of junk out there so people are after credible people • RGS-IBG offers this. • Tweets need to be on topic. • Mentions from influential tweeters • Who you follow/ are being followed by.
Why people will follow: Content • Relevant • To your RG/ topic. No-one cares what you had for lunch! • Original • Consistent- regular postings • Interpretable
Conventions • #hashtags – used for topics/ themes. • Good for conferences. “Backchannel” • Naming rules apply • Also be consistent • Retweets – RT @spatialanalysis • Modified tweet- MT @spatialanalysis • Hat Tip – HT @spatialanalysis • Conversations - @spatialanalysis • Followers of both people see this in their feed, everyone can see them if clicking on profile. • Good way of interacting/ including followers
Aggregators- RSS Feeds • http://blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ • http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/casa • A great way to get content to your websites without having to write it. • Can be from RG member’s blogs or elsewhere. • Seek permission.
Final Thoughts • Long term commitment • Have a few people run the account. • Encourage members to tweet your RG account. • You can then RT their work. • Limit who you follow to key individuals.