In Part 3 of Ideas on Fire’s mentorship series, I tackle how to keep your new academic mentorship relationships strong over the long term by being a good mentee.
Publications
Building Personal Academic Websites
Your professional website services as a central hub for information about you and your projects. Here are tips on how to build an academic website that showcases your awesome work.
How to Design Accessible Events
Accessibility is a social justice issue, but many academic events still are not accessible to most bodies. Here we offer concrete strategies (for any budget) to design your event for the widest audience possible.
Ideas on Fire’s 2016 Year in Review
2016 has been a whirlwind at Ideas on Fire. Here I offer a brief “year in review” highlighting some of the most exciting things to come out of IoF in the last 12 months.
Book and Dissertation Structure: Creating Your Chapters
You’re sitting on pages and pages of notes, potential outlines, and paragraphs on various topics but have yet to find the big, overarching structure or framework that ties all that stuff together into a cohesive manuscript. Here’s how to create a framework for your book or dissertation.
Podcast Interview Tips for Academics, Artists, and Activists
Podcasts are a fantastic way for authors, artists, and cultural workers to get the word out about their work, market their books, and connect with new audiences. Here are my best tips on how to be a good podcast guest or how to best prepare for a podcast interview.
Organizing and Accessing Your Digital Resources
Most of the research and teaching materials we accumulate these days is digital: articles, pdfs, videos, websites, images, and audio files. So how do we keep track of all that stuff?
New Guide on Academic Book Marketing for Authors
You conceptualized, researched, wrote, edited, and published an academic book that has the potential to have a huge impact on the world. But to have that impact, your book needs to get into the hands of the right people. My new guide Book Marketing for Academics teaches you how to do just that.
Book Marketing: Audience and Author Platform
Your author platform is what gets your book noticed, sold, and used by your ideal audience—and every book needs a specific audience. Here’s how you can identify your audience and build your author platform. An excerpt from my new publication Book Marketing for Academics.
Book Marketing: Creating Your Social Media Plan
Most authors know they should be promoting their book on social media. But what does that actually mean? And how do you do it effectively? Good social media marketing begins with a plan. Learn more in an excerpt from my new publication Book Marketing for Academics.