Academic Blogging: Promoting your Research on the Web. I did a workshop/presentation to York faculty as part of the Libraries' Research Frontiers series. As the title of this post suggests, it was on the usefulness of blogging to an academic career. Here are the slides I used: You can link to the slides here, and in our institutional repository here. It was a pretty cozy session, which was ok since that lead to a lot of interesting questions and discussion. Students : Top Web Tools for College Students. Herramientas para búsqueda académica. Home.