{"id":10187,"date":"2016-07-21T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/?p=10187"},"modified":"2016-07-21T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T13:20:30","slug":"craft-your-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/2016\/07\/21\/craft-your-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft your connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter is the medium du jour, and if you\u2019re like many other early-career researchers, you\u2019re all over it. Fantastic. But digital and social media is about much more, and there\u2019s more to consider than the content that you and everyone else are tweeting and retweeting.<\/h2>\n
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Don\u2019t forget that you need to nurture your online persona<\/a> \u2013 the summation and entirety of every bit of online information about you or that involves you, both written and visual. Someone may well have already posted some of this. But you can still shape and guide a great deal of the accessible online information about you \u2014 and the image that this information creates \u2014 by actively managing the content<\/a> over which you have some control.<\/p>\n

This is especially true if you\u2019re looking for a job. It\u2019s safe to assume that potential employers will look you up online <\/a>and so you need to have control over the information presented about you.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn is still one of the most highly used sites for finding out about jobs through your virtual network \u2013 and occasionally getting one. You\u2019ll need to make your profile look good<\/a> — and you\u2019ll need to find a way to stand out from the rest of the pack.<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not seeking employment, though, social media is still a hugely powerful and useful tool<\/a>. It can help you reach networks of like-minded scientists, build research collaborations and even make friends<\/p>\n

Lots of your colleagues find particular sites to be key venues <\/a>when they want to engage in collaborative discussion, peer-review papers, share negative results that might never otherwise be published, and even upload raw data sets<\/p>\n

And through these sites, you can build a powerful virtual network <\/a>that will yield opportunities, information and advice. Here\u2019s to the click!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t forget that you need to nurture your online persona \u2013 the summation and entirety of every bit of online information about you or that involves you, both written and visual. Someone may well have already posted some of this. But you can still shape and guide a great deal of the accessible online information about you \u2014 and the image that this information creates \u2014 by actively managing the content over which you have some control.  Read more<\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,192,385,185,186,865,195,339,1543,198,359,188,281,200,1],"tags":[3,69,357,265,266,116,237,73,3193541],"class_list":["post-10187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia-2","category-blog-2","category-careers-articles","category-collaboration-2","category-communication-2","category-data","category-faculty-2","category-multimedia","category-open-access-2","category-postgraduate-2","category-publishing-2","category-relationships","category-social-media-2","category-technology-2","category-uncategorized","tag-blog","tag-communication","tag-digital-media","tag-network","tag-online","tag-publishing","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-virtual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/naturejobs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}