A quick video and instructions to help you import your publications into you academic website. Google Scholar will export your publications list in BibTeX format. This method uses an online convertor to convert the BibTeX format into one of several standard reference list formats, such as APA, which you can then paste into your Publications … Read more
This guide will help you to build a list of your publications in a format you need to create a page on your academic website. I’ve created this guide because I often find that the list of publications people keep in their CV does not display well on a website. This is usually because the … Read more
It will take a while for Google to understand a new academic website. Over the first few weeks it will crawl and index your pages and analyze visitor behaviour. Until then Google search results can be a bit random; in time it will settle down so that when someone searches your name it will either … Read more
Currently Facebook strips out EXIF data that contains location information in photos posted on Facebook, providing a degree of protection for adoptive families who post photos but need to guard their location. This feature has not pleased some groups of professional photographers who argue that the feature prevents them from inserting metadata that’s important for … Read more
Most digital cameras record the GPS coordinates of a photo you take in the EXIF metadata. This means that anyone you share a photo with can learn exactly where (and when) the photo was taken. In addition, there are other ways in which you can be located from photos you post online. When you share … Read more
The problem is you can’t rely on social media to automatically remove location data from photos you post online. Currently Facebook automatically strips out the EXIF information (that contains location coordinates) from uploaded photos. They do this for privacy reasons. They also strip out the IPTC information that professional photographers insert (eg on your wedding … Read more
This article explains how to capture the referer page in Contact Form 7 and add it to your email notification. The Referer page (originally a misspelling of refferer page) is the URL of the previous page your visitor was on immediately prior to the current page. With a contact form it can be very useful … Read more
By default a Vimeo embed in WordPress is not responsive. However there’s a way to tweak the iframe embed code with one click to make it responsive. There are several ways to embed Vimeo videos in wordPress. The simplest is to paste the URL of the video in your post. Or you can grab the … Read more
It’s important to choose the right domain name for your personal academic website because it’s the first thing potential visitors find out about your website, as well as being the means to remember how to revisit your website. In this article I’m going to give you some guidelines for deciding on the right domain name … Read more
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We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.Our website uses cookies. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy. (1) What information do we collect? … Read more
What kind of images should I use on my academic website? How you use images is something to consider in planning your website and will affect the look and feel of your website. Images on academic websites can serve a variety of functions. The two most useful types of images to display on an academic … Read more
Adoption Relationships Online Research on how the Internet and social networking are reshaping post adoption life. The world of adoption is changing – for adopted children, adoptive parents, prospective adopters, birth families, foster carers, and adoption professionals – and the Internet has become a central tool for change. For example, through social networking all parties in the … Read more
Here’s a selection of books that I’ve recently read and liked. [easyazon_image align=”left” height=”500″ identifier=”1594487138″ locale=”US” src=”https://martinlea.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/61SVNBaYwnL.jpg” tag=”martinlea-20″ width=”335″] Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings on the Internet. The shamed are people like us who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly. Once their transgression is revealed, … Read more
My research is largely self-funded but is nevertheless supported through the kind generosity of various individuals and organizations. The main financial support for my research comes from researchers, academics, authors, journalists and therapists who pay me for my web design and management services through my business WPScholars. Some of the links on my site are … Read more
ConvertKit is a new, powerful and incredibly easy to use email marketing service for professional bloggers. Contact Form 7 is actively installed in over 1 million WordPress blogs and websites. Here’s how to integrate CF7 with ConvertKit, so that the sender is automatically subscribed to a ConvertKit Form when they send you a contact email. It’s very simple … Read more
If you run one of the half a million websites that have Ninja Forms installed you may be wondering if there’s a way to integrate your form with ConvertKit, the new, powerful and very intuitive marketing email service provider for professional bloggers. Connecting Ninja Forms with ConvertKit is simple and only takes a few minutes to set up using a free … Read more
Adoption Internet Project Research on how the Internet and social media are reshaping post adoption life. The world of adoption is changing – for adopted children, adoptive parents, prospective adopters, birth families, foster carers, and adoption professionals – and the Internet has become a central tool for change. For example, through social networking all parties in the … Read more
[clear] Disaster response is socially arranged in complex ways by group and organizational considerations. In this presentation I consider: Groups as causal factors e.g. negligent companies, terrorists Groups as processes Intra-group and inter-group e.g. mass psychogenic illness e.g. identification between helpers and victims e.g. inter-agency communication Groups as moderators e.g. influence of families, communities on responses … Read more
