What does the internet say about you?

# What does the internet say about you?

**Andrew Heiss**

**andhs.co/gsu-internet**

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# Plan for today

.box-5.medium.sp-after-half[Why care about an internet presence?]

.box-3.medium.sp-after-half[Tell people you exist]

.box-4.medium.sp-after-half[Show people who you are]

.box-7.medium[Show people what you do]

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# Why care about an internet presence?

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# It's nice to be known

.box-inv-5.medium.sp-after-half[Reputation is crucial in academia]

.center.float-left.sp-after[.box-5.less-medium[Hiring]&ensp;.box-5.less-medium[Promotion]]

.center.float-left[.box-5.less-medium[Networking]&ensp;.box-5.less-medium[Citations]]

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.box-5.huge[Control the narrative!]

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# Tell people you exist

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# Search engine rankings

.box-inv-3.medium[Algorithms determine your rankings in search engines]

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# Use other peoples' websites

.box-inv-3.medium[Google Scholar]

.box-inv-3.medium[ORCID]

.box-inv-3.medium[Institutional directory]

.box-inv-3.medium[LinkedIn]

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# Link your profiles

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.box-inv-3.medium[List your different profiles on each site to help the algorithm link them together]

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# Show people who you are

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# Show people who you are

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.box-inv-4.medium.sp-after[Your own website]

.box-inv-4.medium[Social media]

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# Use your own website

.box-inv-4.medium[Have a central place that is all about you and what you do]

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# How and where?

.box-inv-4.medium[A website is .smaller[(typically)] a set of HTML files that lives on a computer somewhere in the world]

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# Site creation + hosting

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# More technical + more control

.center[
.box-inv-4[.medium[Self-hosted] (like Digital Ocean) .light.small[(cheap; total control; more complicated!)]]
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# Domain name

.box-inv-4.medium[A domain name is an address that points at a server]

.box-4.sp-after[sites.google.com/yourname vs. yourname.com]

.box-inv-4.sp-before[You can point a domain name at pretty much any hosting option]

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# What should be there?

.box-inv-4.medium[At minimum]

.float-left.center[.box-4[About]&ensp;.box-4[CV]]

.float-left.center[.box-4[Research]&ensp;.box-4[Teaching]]

.box-inv-4.medium.sp-before[Other stuff]

.float-left.center[.box-4[Blog]&ensp;.box-4[/uses & /now]]

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# Social media

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.box-inv-4.medium[Have a presence on social media]

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# What should I post?

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# Why?

.box-inv-4.medium[Boost your own work]

.center[
<figure>
 <img src="img/twitter-citations.png" alt="Does Tweeting Improve Citations?" title="Does Tweeting Improve Citations?" width="60%">
</figure>
]

???

<https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.065>

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# Why?

.box-inv-4.medium[Build and participate in a community]

.center.float-left[.box-4[\#poliscicooks] .box-4[\#poliscibakes]]

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# Show people what you do

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# Show people what you do

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.box-inv-7.medium.sp-after[Your in-progress work]

.box-inv-7.medium[Your finished work]

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.box-7.medium[How we normally think of our work and goals]

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.center[
<figure>
 <img src="img/normal-work.png" alt="How we normally think of our work" title="How we normally think of our work" width="100%">
</figure>
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???

<http://varianceexplained.org/r/start-blog/>

<https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2019/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-public-work/>

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.box-7.medium[How we *should* think of our work and goals]

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.center[
<figure>
 <img src="img/public-work.png" alt="How we normally think of our work" title="How we normally think of our work" width="100%">
</figure>
]

???

<http://varianceexplained.org/r/start-blog/>

<https://rstudio.com/resources/rstudioconf-2019/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-public-work/>

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# Make your work available

.box-inv-7.medium[Most journals allow you to post preprints online]

.box-7.sp-after[(pre-typeset and pre-edited versions)]

.box-inv-7.medium[Consider posting working papers too!]

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# Where?

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.box-inv-7.medium[~~Academia.edu & ResearchGate~~]

.box-inv-7.medium.sp-after[Make it as easy as possible to access your stuff!]

.center.float-left[.box-7[Your own website]&ensp;.box-7[Institutional repository]]

.center.float-left[.box-7[SocArXiv]&ensp;.box-7[Dropbox]&ensp;.box-7[Google Drive]]

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# Control your internet presence!

.box-3.medium[Tell people you exist]

.box-inv-3.small.sp-after[List yourself on existing websites]

.box-4.medium[Show people who you are]

.box-inv-4.small.sp-after[Make your own website and use social media]

.box-7.medium[Show people what you do]

.box-inv-7.small[Show your in-progress and finished work]