Apparently professors should take steps to make their presence larger on the web or risk obscurity. Blogs, apparently, are a good thing and rank highly in web searches. The blog should be about your research area.
As soon as I get a research area, I’ll start writing about that.
Main points:
1. Expand department web pages to include abstracts and links to articles.
2. Hyperlink to journals you publish in.
3. Develop course wikis that create useful content.
4. Blog once a week.
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Seems like my proposal idea for an integrated academic social software suite keeps popping back up…
Comment by Fitzgerald Steele — December 19, 2007 @ 11:58 pm
Yes. I saw another article about Zotero as well, for academics to link and share their research notes on the web, which also sounds quite similar to your academic social software idea.
So many possibilities, so little time
Comment by gthomas — December 20, 2007 @ 9:15 am