EDIT Possibly my question might sound strange, sorry about that. I got a PhD in another country years ago. Recently I moved to the US and have a tenured position. Assume I wrote a paper and want to publish it in a journal. Is there anything what it is common to do (in the US) for this? Say, does it matter in what order I do the following things:
Present the work in a seminar at my department.
Present the work in a conference in my field.
Present the work in a seminar at another department.
Post on the arXiv.
I submit the paper to a journal.
