essential social media for historians and history projects
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This workshop was convened with members of the University of Leicester School of Historical Studies, the University of Leicester library, and was led by Terese Bird of the Institute of Learning Innovation. Contact Terese on [email protected].TRANSCRIPT
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Essential Social Mediafor Historians and History Projects
Terese [email protected] Technologist and SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning Innovation
#HistorySocial Workshop 19 September, 2013
Photo by x Daniel Rehm, Flickr
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What shall we talk about?• Exemplar:
Manufacturing Pasts
• Research project tasks overview
• Social media overview for tasks
• Referencing and Wikipedia
Photo by Superamit on Flickr
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http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
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How we did Manufacturing Pasts
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The academic research cycle
Social media: A guide for researchers (2011), p15
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Historical research tasksON THE INTERNET
• Community• Digital materials• Discover• Disseminate
Sengaw.wordpress.com
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What tools to do these tasks?
• Knowledge creation – offline research, blogging
• Discussing – Twitter, Facebook, Google+
• Curating – Scoop.it, Pinterest, Flickr
• Presenting – Prezi, Slideshare
• ‘Advertising’ – all of the above
Private / Professional / Collective Uses
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Academic Digital Profile: Cristina Costa on Flickr
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Twitter• Follow experts
• Ask a question, get answers from experts
• Get ideas
• Hottest news (use the search)
• ‘Faster’ than email
• Announcements
• ‘New post’ tweets
• Include the world
• Attend conference virtually
Top tip: when tweeting in a collective, add ^TB (your own initials) at the end of your tweetif you can
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Twitter – filtering by creating lists1) Click ‘Me’, then select Lists under the gear
2) Click ‘Create list’, give it a name & description
3) Click ‘Following’, select someone, click and pull down to select ‘Add or remove from lists.’
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Blogs – Wordpress –personal or collective
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Facebook – Group
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Slideshare
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Academia.edu
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Feeling overwhelmed? Try one new thing
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone
who isn’t trying.”
-- Tony Robbins
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Thank you!
• Cann, A. J., Dimitriou, K., & Hooley, T. (2011). Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network. Retrieved from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
I’m happy to help: [email protected]
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