Be who you are: the importance of persistent identifiers

In today's crowded scholarly publishing scene mix-ups with similarly-named authors, variants or name changes can easily happen. How can persistent identifiers help you claim your identity and distinguish you from others with your name?

Mieneke van der Salm • February 03, 2015

Tips and Tricks with Joanne van der Leun

Today's Tips and Tricks will focus on LinkedIn and my guest this week is Professor Joanne van der Leun. When I was looking for a guest to interview about LinkedIn, her profile stood out to me because it's complete and utilises all of the options on offer.

Mieneke van der Salm • January 27, 2015

Best Practices for LinkedIn Academics

Best practices posts for LinkedIn are easily found, because it's such a ubiquitous network for people looking for a job. Yet only a fraction of those focus on what academics should include on their LinkedIn profile.

Mieneke van der Salm • January 21, 2015

LinkedIn as a Connection to Expertise

As an academic, why would you want to use LinkedIn? How is it useful to academics as more than just an online resume? LinkedIn can offer greater knowledge networks in the form of connections and groups.

Mieneke van der Salm • January 13, 2015

Link up with LinkedIn

LinkedIn is primarily known as a networking tool for business professional, yet it can also be a useful tool for academics to create a strong research social network.

Mieneke van der Salm • January 06, 2015

Tips and Tricks with Thijs Porck

Thijs Porck was the obvious choice for an interview about using Facebook as an academic. Earlier this year he was awarded the Humanities Faculty Teaching Prize, where his use of Facebook was specifically mentioned.

Mieneke van der Salm • December 16, 2014

Best Practices for Academics on Facebook

When you decide to use Facebook as part of your professional, academic life there are some additional best practices to keep in mind in addition to the more generally accepted ones. But what are they?

Mieneke van der Salm • December 09, 2014

More degrees of separation: how to keep the personal and professional separate on Facebook.

An oft-mentioned worry when discussing Facebook is the mixing of personal and professional information. How can you leverage the benefits of Facebook's large membership while keeping your peers and students from knowing too much about your personal life?

Mieneke van der Salm • December 01, 2014

Facebook and Altmetrics

Facebook is almost ubiquitous, 1 in 7 people is reportedly on Facebook. While an easy way to connect to people, Facebook has numerous counts against it, its privacy issues being a major one. Despite this, Facebook can be a tool in your academic practice.

Mieneke van der Salm • November 25, 2014

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