FAST digital presence
What everyone should do
[edit | edit source]- You should be on the Active User list on Appropedia continually
- Keep Appropedia Userpage up to date, make sure you are in our category of FAST People
- Put links to your Projects & Publications, Methods, Literature reviews
- If you use anything in the lab -- make sure there is a methods page for it.
- Join LinkedIn and join our group LinkedIn
- After you publish make sure the splash page for your paper:
- Add your user name to the splash page on appropedia author list at the bottom
- add it to your appropedia user pages
- links to your literature reviews, methods, OSF repository. The full reference to the paper is correct.
- Make sure the OSF repository links back to Appropedia and the paper.
- If anything in your project moves- take a short phone video - and add it to your page as animated gifs
- Post pictures of your project to https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and include full reference and links to open access
- Spread news of your articles around in social media - and include your posts in the 'In the Media' section of your splash pages: Facebook, Twitter/Mastadon, Instagram, TikTok, etc.
- Post about your projects and other FAST members on appropriate forums you use with links back to your appropedia splash pages: Reddit, Slashdot, Hackaday, Hacker News, Quora, Discord, Stack Exchange, Digg.
- If working on RepRap or other 3D printing project -copy splash page to RepRap wiki
- Make short videos summarizing your project and send to Dr. Pearce to pust on YouTube - then you can cross post on TikTok etc.
- Start user account in WikiCiv - and copy over all pages you have worked on that are relevant.
Extra stuff those considering academia as a career should do
[edit | edit source]- Register an ORCID author identifier and add the article information to your profile
- Set up your profile on academic research-sharing platforms:
- Deposit your article (the open access or preprint version) in Western's OA repository
Look at Dr. Pearce's accounts and claim co-authorship for anything that is missing in yours. Always have Dr. Pearce post the academia.edu article to get further reach for your pre-prints.
Obvious 3D printing inventions that can not be patented
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| License | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Cite as | J.M.Pearce (2023–2025). "FAST digital presence". Appropedia. Retrieved June 4, 2026. |