'Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work.
This guide has been produced by the International Centre for Guidance Studies, and aims to provide the information needed to make an informed decision about using social media and select from the vast range of tools that are available.One of the most important things that researchers do is to find, use and disseminate information, and social media offers a range of tools which can facilitate this. The guide discusses the use of social media for research and academic purposes and will not be examining the many other uses that social media is put to across society.
Social media can change the way in which you undertake research, and can also open up new forms of communication and dissemination. It has the power to enable researchers to engage in a wide range of dissemination in a highly efficient way.
Web materials 1: Links and resources
Audio and video toolsBlogging and Microblogging tools
Examples of academic and research blogs
Social networking services
Location based tools
Social bookmarking, news and social citation tools
Research and writing collaboration tools
Presentation sharing tools
Project management, meeting and collaboration tools
Information management tools
Virtual worlds...'
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Audio and Video tools
Flickr - www.flickr.comJustin tv - www.justin.tv
Livestream - www.livestream.com
Picasa - http://picasa.google.com
SmugMug - www.smugmug.com
Ustream - www.ustream.tv
Viddler - www.viddler.com
Vimeo - http://vimeo.com
YouTube - www.youtube.com
Blogging and Microblogging tools
Blogger - www.blogger.comLiveJournal - www.livejournal.com
Google buzz - www.google.com/buzz
Plurk - www.plurk.com
Posterous - www.posterous.com
Tumblr - www.tumblr.com
Twitter - www.twitter.com
Typepad - www.typepad.com
Wordpress - www.wordpress.org
Yammer - www.yammer.com
Examples of academic and research blogs
Academic blog portal - http://www.academicblogs.orgAdventures in Career Development - http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com
alunsalt.com - http://alunsalt.com
Finds and Features - http://findsandfeatures.wordpress.com
Fresh and Crispy - http://blog.cpjobling.org
Love of History - http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com
MicrobiologyBytes - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog
My exciting PhD journey! - http://elenaphd.wordpress.com
PhD Blog (dot) Net - http://phdblog.net
Research blogging - http://www.researchblogging.org
Science in the Open - http://cameronneylon.net
Science of the Invisible - http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com
Stanford blog directory - http://blog.stanford.edu
Starting out in Science - http://begsci.wordpress.com
Social networking services
Academia.edu - www.academia.eduFacebook - www.facebook.com
Friendfeed - http://friendfeed.com
Graduate Junction - www.graduatejunction.net
LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com
MethodSpace - www.methodspace.com
MySpace - www.myspace.com
Nature Network - http://network.nature.com
ResearchGate - www.researchgate.net
Location based tools
Foursquare - http://foursquare.comGowalla - http://gowalla.com
Facebook Places - www.facebook.com/places
Social bookmarking, news and social citation tools
BibSonomy - www.bibsonomy.orgCiteULike - www.citeulike.com
delicious - www.delicious.com
Digg - http://digg.com/news
diigo - www.diigo.com
Mendeley - www.mendeley.com
Newsvine - www.newsvine.com
Reddit - www.reddit.com
Zotero - www.zotero.org
Research and writing collaboration tools
Dropbox - www.dropbox.comGoogle Docs - http://docs.google.com
PBworks - http://pbworks.com
Wetpaint - www.wetpaint.com
Wikia - www.wikia.com
Wikispaces - www.wikispaces.com
Zoho Office Suite - www.zoho.com
Presentation sharing tools
Scribd - www.scribd.comSlideShare - www.slideshare.net
Sliderocket - www.sliderocket.com
Project management, meeting and collaboration tools
Adobe Connect - www.adobe.comBamboo - www.bamboosolutions.com
Basecamp - http://basecamphq.com
BigBlueButton - http://bigbluebutton.org
Citrix GotoMeeting - www.gotomeeting.com
DimDim - www.dimdim.com
Elluminate - www.elluminate.com
Huddle - www.huddle.com
Skype - www.skype.com
Information management tools
Google Reader - www.google.com/readeriGoogle - www.google.com/ig
Netvibes - www.netvibes.com
Pageflakes - www.pageflakes.com
Virtual worlds
Second Life - http://secondlife.comOpenSim - http://opensimulator.org
World of Warcraft - http://eu.battle.net/wow
The main project page for Social media: A guide for researchers is here.
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