1. Strategies for academic
communication in digital
environment
Vimal Kumar V.
Mahatma Gandhi University Library
Kottayam
Presented at Workshop on
Academic Communication and Collaboration Tools
organized by
College of Engineering, Thalassery
on 7-8 March 2013.

2. Importance of e-profile
➲ Building networks
(Academic, professional,
Business)
➲ Facilitating public
engagement
➲ Receiving feedback

3. Establishing an e-profile
➲ Who can?
Professionals, Teachers,
Researchers, students
➲ Platforms
Facebook, LinkdIn, Academia
etc.

4. Decorate your wall
➲ Educational qualifications
➲ Professional experience
➲ Publications
➲ Attendance in seminars,
conferences etc.
➲ Resource persons
➲ Other responsibilities

5. Micro Blogging
➲ Create a nice profile
➲ Follow others
➲ Tweets
➲ Retweets

6. Blogging
➲ Plenty more to talk
➲ Type of blogs
Library blog
Professional blog
Event blog
Photo blog
Research blog

7. Advantages of blog?
➲ Usage statistics
➲ Feedback from readers
➲ Discussion
➲ Followers
➲ Tagging

8. Blogging Tips
➲ Contribute to an existing blog
➲ Add sharing widgets (Social
network, Bookmark)
➲ Regular posting
➲ Give ideal tags
➲ Encourage discussions
➲ Reply to comments soon

9. Personal websites
➲ Don't host sites in free space
➲ Buy a domain name, its very cheap
price
➲ Buy an instance of content
management system (Drupal,
Word press)
➲ Add blog module
➲ Display your social network
widgets
➲ Update content frequently

10. Curation and sharing of
content
Slideshare
Scribd
Google Docs
Inst. repositories

11. Effective use of discussion forums
➲ Conferences
➲ Job postings
➲ Article request
➲ Training programmes
➲ Extension activities
➲ Event reports
➲ Higher education
➲ Service matters etc.

12. Continues
➲ Participate in discussion
threads
➲ Active professionals get
more attention
➲ Helpful to build professional
network

13. Scholarly writing: things to
remember
➲ Start early as possible
➲ Try to convert your dissertation as
journal article
➲ Consult your teachers for reviewing
➲ Write paper based on your
presentations
➲ Make use of library resources in your
institution.

14. What should I write about?
➲ Form ideas based on your
experiences and expertise
➲ Read others articles
➲ Collaborate with others
➲ Start from where others
stopped

15. How do I start?
➲ Review of related literature
➲ Discuss with your colleagues

16. How do I start writing the
paper?
➲ Just write
➲ Don't worry about title
➲ Skip abstract, introduction and
conclusion
➲ Develop an outline of headings
and subheadings
➲ Set small quota of writing

17. I'm finished first draft !
➲ Take a few days off
➲ Reread the article
➲ Allow your friends/colleagues to
read the first draft.

18. What goes on when I
submit the work?
➲ Reject
➲ Revise and resubmit
➲ Accept with major changes
➲ Accept with minor changes
➲ Accepted

19. Things to remember...
➲ Post the content regularly
➲ Promote e-profile
Visiting card
Email signature
➲ Accept the feedback
➲ Give the reply soon
➲ Enable the content in public
access mode

20. Continues.....
➲ Don't post things at midnight
➲ Don't post things on week end
➲ Best time is between 11 am - 5 pm

21. References
Lupton, D. (2012, July 24). Professional digital practice in academia: From online
networking to building apps | Impact of Social Sciences. LSE Blogs . Retrieved
March 1, 2013, from http://goo.gl/pXg82
Nicholson, S. (2006). Writing Your First Scholarly Article: A Guide for Budding
Authors in Librarianship. Information Technology & Libraries, 25(2), 108.
Patel, S. (2013, August 10). I’m an academic and desperately need an online
presence, where do I start? | Impact of Social Sciences. LSE Blogs . Retrieved
March 11, 2013, from http://goo.gl/R5J93
Terras, M. (2012, November 26). What’s in a name? Academic identity in the
metadata age | Impact of Social Sciences. LSE Blogs. Retrieved March 11,
2013, from http://goo.gl/2jUsR

22. Thank You
Pleas ask questions
www.vimalkumar.org
vimal0212@gmail.com