Gif’s are a great way to do this in twitter! The feedback from the BOSS community really helped me refine my ideas and the final version is so much better as a result. When this systematic review was published I channeled my inner Echo and tried to think how to tell an engaging story and give people the information they would need to know if it was relevant for them. Here is what Ronie wanted to share about creating gifs to talk about her work and workshopping this with the community:Īs a remote PhD student I rely on twitter as a “watercooler” option for keeping up to date with the latest research in my field. Success, indeed!! #AnimatedAbstract example 2Īnother BOSS member, Ronie Walters (a final year PhD student), also shared a draft gif with our community: Did you catch that? Thanks to this gif, a policy stakeholder contacted the study authors for more information! Overall, I’m very happy with the end product! An important policy stakeholder saw the GIF on social media and reached out to us for more information about the study. Thanks to BOSS, I also incorporated more visuals to display the study design and results. This tip completely changed the structure of the GIF to be more engaging. Echo pushed me to consider this as a story to grab the audience’s attention with the most important points first. When I first created the GIF for my study, I fell into the habit of presenting in the traditional research paper style: intro>methods>results>conclusions. Boppre wanted to share about creating gifs to talk about her work and workshopping this with the community: Bree Boppre shared this draft in our community:ĭr. With permission, here is one of those gifs.ĭr. That’s why we’ve had a few BOSS members share their draft gifs in our community for feedback. The same applies to creating gifs about your work.Įven if you have to make some small tweaks (changing the slide size, adding in some additional text), if you already have great slides then you don’t need to worry about the design aspect. For example, knowing the core principles of slide design helps you design visually engaging scientific/academic posters and infographics. The thing about effective presentation skills is that it’s the gateway to being a visual thinker and an effective designer in other contexts. Just in case you’re new to my blog and don’t know this, I run an online professional development course that includes a private Slack community where people can post questions and get feedback about their presentation slides and script (It’s called Blast Off to Stellar Slides!). Hopefully, you’re enjoying this blog post so far, if so, you’ll love my FREE training.įirst, let me explain where these 2 case studies came from. To make this point, I will share two examples with you. The answer is twofold: (a) presentation design skills and (b) a community to workshop your ideas with. Because, I have one more question to answer: How can an academic/scientist make an engaging gif that has this type of impact? ![]() Others are starting to create #AnimatedAbstracts too and I have 2 examples from others to share with you next. a standard visual abstract.Īnd it’s not just me. But this is such a huge difference that I’m personally convinced of the unique effectiveness of an animated abstract vs. And yes I am aware this is just an example on Twitter and not other social platforms. ![]() YES, I am aware that there are other factors that could have impacted this. GIF version: 107 clicks / 5,197 impressions = 2.06%Īnd yes I know this isn’t a real experiment or a real study. PNG version: 13 clicks / 1,165 impressions = 1.11% I calculated the percentage of clicks / total impressions and check this out: Then I realized, I should take a look at my Twitter stats to see if the animated (gif) version did, actually, do better. I tweeted both versions at different times and didn’t think much of it after that.Īt least, until I started making this post. I made a visual abstract to go along with my tweets about the event and then decided to create an animated version, too. My informal ad-hoc experiment: How much better is an #AnimatedAbstract compared to a visual abstract?Įarlier this summer, I hosted a free weeklong brownbag training event to help academics and scientists learn how to create interactive webinars. If you’re already making a visual abstract, then it won’t take long to turn it into an #AnimatedAbstract.Īnd I’ll share some of my Twitter stats with you to highlight why those few extra minutes are sooooo worth it. What I want to encourage you to do, however, is to take things one step further and create an animated abstract. ![]() I think you should absolutely work on creating visual abstracts and it’s a fantastic next step when promoting your conference presentation, science talk, webinar, journal publication, or evaluation report. That’s why visual abstracts have become popular in recent years.
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