Career
Networking
Social networks
Researchers are very active on social networks, both for research communication and more personal interactions.
- LinkedIn: A business and employment-focused social media platform.
- Twitter: An online social media and social networking service.
- Orcid: Provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more.
Building a website
Having your own website is essential for visibility, to showcase your CV and publications.
- Wordpress: A web content management system. It was originally created as a tool to publish blogs but has evolved to support publishing other web content, including more traditional websites.
- GitHub Pages + Jekyll: Websites for you and your projects, hosted and deployed directly from a GitHub repository. Some templates: