Dr Richard Huysmans P/L

Six lessons I have learned helping others with social media:
1. Time – It takes time to build your social media muscle. There’s no substitute for hours on the platform. There’s no substitute for being on the platform for many years.
2. Know your audience – Knowing who you want as a follower as well as who follows you.
3. Research works – Investigate the content, channels, posts, time of day that leads to the results you’re after. Spend time testing different approaches. Learn where your ideal followers hang out.
4. Research your audience – Make a list of their likes, and dislikes. Get specific. Know these details for each of the accounts you’d like as a follower.
5. Ask – For what you want. Likes. Shares. Follows. Downloads.
6. Copy others – Look at what they are doing. Don’t steal their content but reuse their ideas. Video styles. Picture styles. Words. Layouts. Approaches.

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Writing a thesis is a massive task! There are some many things to focus on – content, layout, order, design…

And your supervisor cannot – probably won’t – do everything.

You might have considered an editor, but even they don’t look at the overall structure, format layout etc.

That’s where the thesis audit comes in.

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Six Lessons I've Learned Helping Researchers with Social Media by Dr. Richard Huysmans' Podcast https://hubs.li/Q015l3y40

Six tips for an easy PhD:
1. Have a good research question.
2. Use known research tools.
3. Have accessible data and/or samples.
4. Build your analytical skills.
5. Be skilled at word processing.
6. Stop scope creep.

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Elite athletes have coaches.
So do musicians and artists.
As well as those who aspire to be great athletes, musicians and artists.

So – why don’t elite thinkers (academics) and elite thinkers in training (PhD students) have coaches?!

They should! And you can!

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Taking on social media can feel like a massive task There are so many things to focus on – channel, content, followers, commenting, liking, sharing, responding.

And your supervisor cannot – probably won’t – do anything! Let alone have advice.

You might have looked at other people’s social media. But sometimes that just isn’t enough.

That’s where the social media audit comes in.

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There are many metrics that researchers and associated administrator use to measure and report success. Here are 6 that might be useful for you:
1. Impact Factor – average citation count per article per journal over a rolling 2-year period
2. Citation count – absolute number of citations for an individual article.
3. H-index – maximum number of citations for same number of publications.
4. RG Score – Restricted to ResearchGate measuring your participation on research gate, including uploaded and referenced articles. Can be directly compared to all ResearchGate members.
5. ResearchInterest – Restricted to ResearchGate. Includes RG score, but also more weight given to citations and publications. Can be directly compared to all ResearchGate members.
6. Altmertic – Combines citations from a range of sources across the web – social media, government reports, as well as academic journals.

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Deciding what to do next – that’s hard
50% of people doing a PhD in Australia DON’T WANT an academic career. And indeed, (internationally) the data show they pretty much leave academia upon graduation.

BUT..

How?

How do you leave academia?

How do you stay in academia?

What else is out there for you?

You can join my coaching program!

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It is impossible to see how far you have traveled if you only look forwards. At times, you need to look over your shoulder to remind yourself how far you have come.

If you want your work to be read, downloaded, and cited, you MUST promote it. So, what are some of the best ways you’ve seen an academic share their research work on social media? Here are 15 ideas from me…

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Eight tips to increase your productivity:
1. Important stuff first.
2. Boot up routine.
3. Shut down routine.
4. Three items to-do list.
5. Strive for productive not efficient.
6. Set work schedule.
7. State your intent.
8. Do the difficult stuff first.

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