Tips & tools for building/promoting your scholarly identity

It is increasingly necessary for researchers to have a professional presence online. In this workshop you’ll learn how to establish and manage your scholarly identity to help you connect with colleagues, find collaborators, and expose your research to new audiences. You’ll also learn how to boost your scholarly impact using social media and how to make sense of alternative metrics that come with these new methods of knowledge communication and dissemination.

Session Outcomes:

• Learn about researcher identifiers such as ORCID & Researcher ID
• Learn to use Twitter to see who’s talking about your research
• Learn how social media data & analytics can be used to compliment traditional research metrics