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- It helps you become more clear about your ideas.
- It gives you practice at presenting your ideas for a non-specialist audience.
- It increases your visibility within academia.
- It increases your visibility outside academia and makes it much easier for journalists, campaigners and practitioners to find you.
- It increases your visibility more than a static site and allows people who find you to get an overall sense of your academic interests.
- It’s a great way of making connections & finding potential collaborators.
- It can provide an archive of your thoughts, ideas and reactions which can later be incorporated into more formal work.
- It makes it easier for people to find your published work and increases the likelihood they will read and cite it.
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