This workshop is the last of the series of Communicating Research in 2015, and it focused on profiling our research. Research profile, when constructed with the right amount of details, would become a basic tool to promote our research across different digital media.
In this workshop, we were told about some common social media that we may consider for promoting our profile. Examples of academic/research social media are Research Gate, Acedmia.edu and Google Scholar. The non-academic profiling media could be LinkedIn or even Facebook. I have personally joined Research Gate a few months ago, in which I find that it is quite a good tool in the way that it tries to connect you with other researchers when common research areas are found. But I don't really like to use Facebook or or other non-academic social media for the similar purpose as I feel that people within my Facebook contact are generally not researchers. However, after some thoughts shared by Julie Holden, I do agree that other social media like Facebook, if organized and managed properly, can be a good place to promote our research as well.
Knowing the benefit of profiling our research, especially with the help of social media, I begin to fill-in more details in Research Gate and start organizing my Facebook contents. Hopefully, as suggested by this workshop, our profile will benefit us not only in our career, but also gets our findings and works reaching out to more people, inclusive of even friends and family members who aren't experts in our field. One day, they are going to understand and appreciate our works.
PS: At the end of the workshop, we were asked to complete our profile based on a template provided to us, and with delight, the profile is going to be published at Monash website! That's great.
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