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
A field study is reported in which friendships were sampled at 1 month, 4 months and 12 months duration. Friendship variables were measured at each time-point using the Acquaintance Description Form (ADF), and the degree of value similarity was also assessed. Scores on 8 ADF variables were regressed on common similarity (that was easy to … Read more
[clear]What you need to consider and the criteria you should use for choosing an email marketing service for your small business. Over the last few months I’ve been trying out a range of Email Marketing Services on behalf of my small business clients. In the course of doing it became clear to me just how important … Read more
Incidents referred to in articles on psychological and behavioural responses to disaster including CBRN. A number of specific incidents are referred to throughout our articles on disaster resilience and disaster psychology. They are listed below, in alphabetical order, along with the date on which they occurred and a brief description. Those incidents that involve CBRN … 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
MailerLite has just launched a new editor for their Email Newsletters, so it’s timely to compare the editors for MailerLite and ConvertKit. The two services could not be more different in this area. So it is a crucial aspect to review. Choose the wrong service and you’re going to be frustrated and disappointed. Comparing ConvertKit and … Read more
The scale of the problem The extent to which first responders turn out in the event of an emergency is an important concern since significant failure to turn out and commit would have wide implications for successfully dealing with an emergency. One suggestion is that turn out failure by emergency personnel is more likely under … Read more
The scale of the problem There is a growing recognition that First Responders themselves can become psychological victims of a disaster (Alexander & Klein, 2003; R Wraith & Gordon, 2001?). Eighty percent of disaster workers experience emotional symptoms due to their experience of the events, and their role as help providers dealing with death and … Read more
This article discusses the immediate social response to a disaster incident by the affected community. The literature suggests that victims respond in an active rather than passive manner following a disaster incident and that altruism and volunteer behaviour is generally found, which results in increased social cohesion. See also this article on The Public as … Read more
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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
Adoption Podcasts There are now over 20 podcasts focused on the topic of child adoption that provide information, education and support to adoptive parents and adoptees. I’ve listened to most of them and here I’ve picked three I found most interesting and useful and which illustrate the range that’s available. What are podcasts? If you’re … Read more
Ruth Yeoman already had a personal academic website, but she wanted someone who understood her professional needs to look after all the technical aspects of hosting and maintaining her site, and at an affordable price. Read what I did, as well as full details of my Site Care plans.
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
