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
Flickr: mkhmarketing
*Massive thank you to my tweeps
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