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Category: Social Media

I’ve published my article… now what?

By Sarah Slowe | 02 January 2019

When Roz and I had Supporting Open Access at Kent—New Staff Roles published, we wrote a blog post about our experience (Tasting our own medicine – … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: Instagram for beginners

By Josie Caplehorne | 23 August 2018

Instagram is a popular image sharing social media platform that could enhance discovery of and engagement with your research by new audiences.   A quick … Read more

Using Social Media: Top 10 tips for researchers

By Sarah Slowe | 14 November 2017

1) Pick your platform(s) – don’t do too much There are wealth of options… blogs, twitter, facebook, Instagram, researchgate, academia.edu, snapchat… the list goes on, … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: Reddit AMAs

By Angela Groth-Seary | 08 November 2017

Reddit is a social news website that has become a major driver of traffic to blog posts, videos, images and news articles. Reddit offers a significant platform for … Read more

Using Social Media: Recruiting Research Participants via Twitter

By Angela Groth-Seary | 03 November 2017

This post was written by Sarah Slowe, Head of the Office for Scholarly Communications. Sarah tweets as @HeadUniKentOSC.   This is the first post on … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: A blog on blogging (Kent blogs)

By Angela Groth-Seary | 19 October 2017

Blogs: An excellent way to open the discussion on a new publication, write up sessions or key points from a conference you’ve attended, or to … Read more

Social Media: Using Kudos to evaluate your Social Media efforts

By Angela Groth-Seary | 16 October 2017

Kudos is a free tool which allows you to widen the audience of your publication by adding a simpler title, a plain language summary, a statement on why … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: Facebook Groups and Pages

By Angela Groth-Seary | 25 September 2017

This is the second in a series of Social Media ‘Getting started’ guides. We will make the series available as a downloadable guide via our website once … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: Twitter (beginner)

By Angela Groth-Seary | 18 September 2017

This is the first of a series of Social Media ‘Getting started’ guides. We will make the series available as a downloadable guide via our website … Read more

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