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
Category: Social Media
Using Social Media to promote your research: Instagram for beginners
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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