DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS - A GUIDE FOR RESEARCHERS

'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 tools
Blogging 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.com
Justin 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.com
LiveJournal - 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.org
Adventures 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.edu
Facebook - 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.com
Gowalla - http://gowalla.com
Facebook Places - www.facebook.com/places

Social bookmarking, news and social citation tools

BibSonomy - www.bibsonomy.org
CiteULike - 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.com
Google 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.com
SlideShare - www.slideshare.net
Sliderocket - www.sliderocket.com

Project management, meeting and collaboration tools

Adobe Connect - www.adobe.com
Bamboo - 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/reader
iGoogle - www.google.com/ig
Netvibes - www.netvibes.com
Pageflakes - www.pageflakes.com

Virtual worlds

Second Life - http://secondlife.com
OpenSim - http://opensimulator.org
World of Warcraft - http://eu.battle.net/wow

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