Social media for sharing research

Social media for sharing research

Twitter wrote this talk

Dr Jenna Condie @jennacondie

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#help…

My twitter network has written this talk…

What they said

Finding, connecting, sharing

For promoting your own research?

Engaging with many audiences

Future trends…look towards the PhD community!

We all have something to say

and something to share

Building a SSAP ‘Twitterati’

1. Follow @SSAPChat http://twitter.com/ssapchat

2. Tweet and include #SSAPChat

3. Share colleagues’ work with your networks please retweet!

“If (social media interaction is often) then (Open access + social media = increased downloads)”

Melissa Terras (2012)

Social media, research citations and impact

We need to aggregate, curate, and narrate our content

using our website and SSAP blogs as a central space

Finding our Twitter voices…

• Monthly tweetchats #SSAPChat

• #atweetadayforamonthchallenge

• @SSAPChat takeover

• Workshops

• Research events #hashtags

Resources

• Twitter Guide (LSE) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2011/11/Published-Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf

• How to build a presence on Twitter (ESRC) http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/impact-toolkit/tools/interactive-media/twitter/build-twitter-presence.aspx

• A to Z of social media for academics (Andy Miah) http://www.andymiah.net/2012/12/30/the-a-to-z-of-social-media-for-academics/

• Playing with Altmetrics (Research Whisperer) https://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/tag/alt-metrics/

• Altmetrics Guide (UWS) https://library.uws.edu.au/uws_library/researchers/measuring-impact/altmetrics

• Altmetrics Guide (QUT) http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=83906&sid=3394245

• Altmetric Bookmarklet http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php

• Eysenbach (2011) Can Tweets Predict Citations? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278109/

Social media for sharing research*

Twitter wrote this talk

@jennacondie

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*Massive thank you to my tweeps