Self-Promotion in Graduate School Part 4: You’ve Got A Mailing List!

Old technology but it works

Electronic Mailing lists are by no means a new technology. Simply, an electronic email list works like a traditional email list where many people share address and emails are mass emailed in a public way. Almost every subject has list that you can join. Also if you are worried about getting too much email just sin up for the digest form so you get one email a day that contains all the traffic for that day.

The Latest Ideas

The main reason I like mailing lists is they have the latest and greatest ideas. Since the lists can react so fast to things they offer a forum for ideas immediately and with a diverse range of opinions.

Meet people

Another reason I love mailing lists is that they allow you to contact people you might never have met before who are interested into what you are in. I have met fellow students and professors from all over the world doing interesting work.

Other Research

Mailing lists also introduce you to new research subjects and methods you might never have known. Several times I have seen things I could never think of or new connections.

Etiquette

One caveat of joining lists is there is high level of etiquette expected on mailing lists. Be sure to read an list rules closely and I would recommend reading the list for a while before posting to it. Happy listing!

My Lists

These are the lists I am on:

SLED – Second life Education list. - https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educators

SLRL – Second Life Researchers List (I run this list with Intellagirl) - http://list.academ-x.com/listinfo.cgi/slrl-academ-x.com

SOCNET – From INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org).

air-l - Association of Internet Researchers http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

2 April 2007 | Mark Bell, self-promotion | Comments