Networking

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Managing your profile and professional relationships is as important as your actual research. Use these social and networking tools to raise your academic profile.

Online profile tools

  • Griffith Experts: All Griffith teaching staff have a profile on Griffith Experts.

  • ORCID: Your ORCiD ensures all of your published research is associated with you, regardless of institution or project.

  • Mendeley: The reference manager also has sharing and social features.

  • LinkedIn: Promoted as a networking tool for professionals.

  • Twitter: using hashtags to livetweet conferences is a favourite of researchers.

  • Mastodon: A federated (meaning many independent but interconnected instances) microblogging (i.e. ‘twitter-esque’) service. There are many Mastodon servers that might be of interest to you, for example Scholar Social is aimed specifically at academics and researchers.

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