blogs, twitter, wikis and other web-based tools: collaborating and building your online presence
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Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools
http://research20atimperial.wordpress.com
Jenny EvansMaths & Physics Librarian
Tools and Technologiesfound under ‘optional content’
BlogsEvaluation tools
MultimediaNetworks and networkingOnline collaborative tools
RSSSocial bookmarking & reference management
Wikis
Communicating online (online identity)Managing information
Keeping up-to-date
Inputs
Tom Phillips (2013)
Outputs
Tom Phillips (2013)
An online diary, with entries (known as posts) written in reverse chronological order. It is possible to post text as well as embed other content, such as images or videos or tweets from your Twitter account. Those reading a blog can often use the comments feature to interact with the blog writer, or blogger, and other people (though some blogs have comments disabled).
Structure of a blog
Also known as a web feed or news feed, an RSS feed is web content encoded in an xml format. It enables you to keep up to date with changes to regularly accessed web resources by delivering this information directly to your feed reader (also known as an aggregator). Feed readers can be browser based, web based or desktop based.
Activity: Create an account with a Feed
Readerand add some RSS feeds
http://feedly.com/index.html#welcome
Blogging Platforms
Why?
AudienceWhat to blog about / not blog about
Content
Why not?
Confidential dataTime
Information communication to a wide audience
Improve your writing
Think about communicating to non-specialists and/or members of the public
Easy to set up
Connect other social media accounts
Build your online presence/profile
Content (from Stephen Curry)
Legal / ethical issues
Embed links rather than content
Hosting
Licensing info about original content
License blog with appropriate CC license
Confidentiality
Complaints procedure
…use your common sense!
Activity – Workshop blog
1. Log in to the workshop blog www.imperiallibrarylab.co.uk/wordpressresearch/wp-login.php
- your username and password were emailed to you this morning
2. Write your first blog post – can be impressions so far or try the ‘flash blogging exercise’ or do both
3. Or set up your own WordPress.com blog and write your first post
“an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables users to send and read “tweets”, which are text-
based messages limited to 140 characters.”
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter [accessed online 1 December 2013]
What is it?
Twitter and Privacy
Privacy policy
Account settingsLocation information – off by defaulthttps://support.twitter.com/forums/26810/entries/78525#
Can delete tweets but not edit themMay still be found in Twitter Search for a while
Twitter apps and tools
Twitter for smart phones, tablets and desktop computers
Activity: Set up a Twitter Account or a
Hootsuite Account
A wiki is a website that anyone can add content to. It can be open to all or closed so that only invited
members of a community can use it. Pages can be quickly and easily edited and created in a web
browser. Those contributing to a wiki can discuss and comment upon each other’s work.
Enables collaborationWeb-based
Reduce emailKeep track of research
Using wikis in research
Electronic lab notebooksOpen Wet Ware
Disseminate dataisee – dissemination of structural biology
data
To support teachingChemistry@www.ch.imperial.ac.uk
For presentationsWikipedia and the Molecular Sciences
Which wiki software?
Imperial specificCentral Wiki Service (Confluence)Sharepoint
Freely availableWikiMatrix
Social bookmarking and your research
Web-based version of browser bookmarks – access wherever you are
Share with other researchers
Export and import links
Discover new information and research using tags to browse other peoples bookmarks
Organise, and search your bookmarks using tags
Delicious, Pinboard
Social reference management and your research
Discover new information and research
Access your references wherever you are
Organise, and search your references/bookmarks using tags
Share your references with others in your research area
Identify other potentially useful referencesMendeley, Zotero, Papers, Colwiz, readcube
Chemistry Research group using Mendeley
Evaluation toolsMany tools available – measuring qualitative or quantitative data or a combination of both
Can be free, paid for or a combination of both
Altmetrics – article level metrics – focus on the impact of a specific article
There are also tools connecting social media accounts and give you a score to measure your influence
No tool is perfect nor should not be used in isolation
Things to think about
What do I want to measure?Why am I measuring?Which tools am I using?How and what is the tool / service measuring?
College guidelines / advice
Social media guidelineshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/webguide/socialmedia
Social networking sites and personal internet presence http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/hr/procedures/socialnet
Use of collaborative internet environments http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/secretariat/collegegovernance/provisions/policies/infosystems/codes/cop16
Web based collaboration guidelineshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/WEBGUIDE/technologyservices/collaboration/webbasedcollaborationguidelinessupplement
Image attributionsTag cloud from http://www.tagxedo.com/Anne Helmand http://www.flickr.com/photos/7849372@N04/3582297307/ under CC BY-NC-SATom Phillips inputs and outputs from: http://blog.tomwphillips.co.uk/2013/02/tools-and-technologies-for-researchers/ Blogs, Read blogs, RSS, Write blogs, Why, Case Studies, Other Tools images generated by: http://metaatem.net/words/blogsBlogging platforms image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/67499195@N00/3273832615 reused under CC BY-NC 2.0Content from Stephen Curry (Science blogging workshop) http://sciencebloggingworkshop.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/stephencurrybloggingworkshop-jul12-v2.pdf Copyright image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/10361931@N06/4839454263/ reused under CC-BYThe role of Twitter in science publication and communication from : http://www.katiephd.com/twitter-and-science-publications/Prevalence of Twitter and use amongst scholars http://figshare.com/articles/Prevalence_and_use_of_Twitter_among_scholars/104629Why use Twitter? And Perceptions on why you might not use Twitter from: : http://prezi.com/f9ivxz4pkloj/twitter-for-researchers/
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