I'm doing a short presentation tomorrow on blogging for researchers as part of a day-long communications workshop for faculty here at York. And since a few months back I created a reading list for a social media presentation for grad students, I thought I'd expand that list in this post and add some more specifically blogging-related resources.
Enjoy!
- Our Blogs, Ourselves (Paul Krugman)
- The Power of Blogs in Forming New Fields of International Study
- Should you enter the academic blogosphere? A discussion on whether scholars should take the time to write a blog about their work
- Social media and research workflow
- Social media: A guide for researchers
- Evans and Cebula on Academic Blogging
- Social Media for Scientists Part 1: It's Our Job, Part 2: You Do Have Time, Part 2.5: Breaking Stereotypes, Part 3: Win-Win
- The Economics of Science Blogging
- The Six Attitudes Leaders Take Towards Social Media
- 8 Qualities of a Social Media Expert
- Eleven Deadly Sins Of Online Promotion For Writers
- Five Hard Truths About Blogging
- Social Media - Oversold and Undervalued
- 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
- n00b Science Blogging: Part 1, Part 2 - The Audience, Part 3 - Blogging in Grad School
- 7 reasons people don't use twitter, and why 'It's a conversation' is the answer to all of them
- Twitter advice for profs: keep it personal
- Scientists & the Social Media
- Big Blog on Campus
- The Five Social Media "Facts of Life"
- Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One's Own
- How To Blog a Conference
- Post Publication Peer Review: Blogs vs Letters to the Editor
- Why I Decided to Start a Blog
- Tweeting Science
- Blogs: face the conversation
- Negative Myths about Academic Blogging
- Science Blogging: The Future of Science Communication & Why You Should Be a Part of it
- Why Academics Should Blog
- Imagining Twitter as an Imagined Community
- I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience
- Everyone's an influencer: Quantifying influence on Twitter
- Professor quits email for social media
- To Blog Or Not To Blog?
- How To Blog a Conference
- Knowledge Dissemination: blogging vs peer review
- Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One's Own
- Professors, Start Your Blogs
- How Public Like a Frog: On Academic Blogging
- Twitter advice for profs: keep it personal
- Everything you Need to Know about Twitter
- 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years
- How to succeed in blogging without really trying (which is, coincidentally, the ONLY way to succeed)
- Social media: A guide for researchers
- 10 reasons NOT to be on Twitter
- Perceived Legitimacy of Blogging in Science
- Five Tips for Smarter Social Networking
- Science Blogging and Tenure
- "In Olden Days, A Glimpse of Blogging"
- Why scientists (should) blog
- Twitter's Ten Rules For Radical Innovators
- An Open, Digital Professoriat
- Portrait of the Scholar as Blogger
- How to Start Tweeting (and Why You Might Want To)
- I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context
- Blogging is part of my day job
Feel free to add any suggestions in the comments.
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