{"id":5607,"date":"2023-03-15T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T14:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:29:01","slug":"scientists-on-social-media-the-problems-the-issues-and-the-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeyoungacademy.dk\/da\/scientists-on-social-media-the-problems-the-issues-and-the-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists on social media: The problems, the issues … and the solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Participants on my workshops offer each other feedback on their own specific social media challenges. Now it is time to release some of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is something that I facilitate at the end of my longer social media workshops for researchers, and it is a core component of the 2-day \u2018Boost Your Research Career with Twitter, LinkedIn and alternative social media platforms<\/a>\u2019<\/em> workshop that I hold at the University of Copenhagen:<\/p>\n

A feedback exercise where participants walk around the room in groups of two and respond to each other\u2019s social media challenges and bottlenecks. Participants also email me their challenges between the two workshop days, so I have the chance to respond to them myself.<\/p>\n

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I realized that some of the issues and problems were solved by previous participants. So I would be doing everyone a favour by re-using the previous responses to the same problem.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The feedback session is one of the high points of the ‘Boost Your Research Career with Twitter, LinkedIn and alternative social media platforms’ at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p><\/div>\n

A participant\u2019s issue could be something specific like this:<\/p>\n

‘I need 40 more people to sign up for an upcoming conference that I am organizing and need to find an expert to take part in a panel session. What is the best way to go about it?’<\/p>\n

Or it could be a general problem like this:<\/p>\n

‘I have a fear of sending things out in the open: I want things to be completely correct before I tweet or post.’<\/p>\n

I write the issues at the top of a large A1 flipchart sheet of paper. As each group walks around the room, they have 3 minutes to discuss and formulate their response to the issue.<\/p>\n

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‘I need 40 more people to sign up for an upcoming conference that I am organizing and need to find an expert to take part in a panel session. What is the best way to go about it?’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When I ring a bell, the groups switch places and move on to the next question, where they both relate to the original issue and the first group\u2019s response to it. There are five or six rounds.<\/p>\n

The exercise also works at online meetings. Here the large piece of paper is replaced by a shared google doc, where participants (in breakout rooms) simultaneously update their solutions in the same fashion.<\/p>\n

The thing is: After many feedback sessions, I came to realize that some of the issues were already solved by previous participants. So I would be doing everyone a favour by re-using others’ previous responses to the same problem. So I started doing this also.<\/p>\n

Participants offer technical solutions to specific technical problems, and some of these solutions are too specific to be released. But participants also offer cognitive strategies and ways to keep up motivation. So it is a good thing if their strategies are used for workshop participants going forward.<\/p>\n

I am now going to go one step further!<\/p>\n

I release here a selected list of feedback problems, with the participants\u2019 solutions in blue<\/span>. \u00a0I have anonymised all the responses, as well as the references to specific institutions and events. If relevant I have added my own previous responses (from the time) in red<\/span>.<\/p>\n

THEME: Twitter and LinkedIn for recruitment, events and networking<\/span><\/h2>\n