Promote Your Research: ORCID, Google Scholar, and More: Social Media

Frequently used by academics, and is becoming an important part of the scholarly discourse. When scholarly work is shared, the number of Tweets and Retweets can be counted.

If articles, videos, or blogs are shared on Facebook the number of times that content is shared or liked can be counted.

Connects professional around the world.

Free reference manager and academic social network. When you publish a new article, make sure your article is included in the Mendeley central index. If it's not there, you can make sure it's included by adding it to your Mendeley library.

Share your research. Does not cover all fields.

Create an account and upload citations and full-text articles and then get metrics on views, bookmarks, and downloads. Produces an author-level metric called the RG score.

Enables you to connect with others with similar research interests, keep track of the latest developments in your field, and maintain a page highlighting your research interests, publications, contact information, who you’re following, and by whom you’re being followed.

WordPress is easy to use and customize, and is suitable for both creating and maintaining blogs and static portfolio sites.

Free blogging platform.

Includes lots of useful academic content. Watch and upload videos and share it with others.

Home to many high quality videos appropriate for college research. No ads but user needs to register to watch and share videos.

Online mobile photo-sharing site. Share photos publicly or privately, as well as through other social networking platforms.

Photo management and sharing site and the terms of use or a contact name are generally displayed. To easily pinpoint images for use in teaching, presentations, and classwork limit to "Commercial Use & Mods allowed."

Photo hosting platform and also ranks photos by popularity and other metrics.

A presentation uploaded to SlideShare.

Author: Melissa Terras. "If you want people to find and read your research, build up a digital presence in your discipline, and use it to promote your work when you have something interesting to share."

Author: Ryan Cordell. From the Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker blog

From Harvard Business Review. Describes how different researchers use social media to engage students and other researchers.

Reading list and discussion about using social media as a dissemination strategy. From the London School of Economics and Political Science.