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New New Tools and RulesTools and Rules
for Researchfor Research
Knowledge Mobilization Knowledge Mobilization Initiatives Initiatives
Using Social Media Using Social Media
Gary MyersGary MyersKMbeing.comKMbeing.com
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Mobilization
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Knowledge
Mobilization
• putting available knowledge into active service to benefit society
Scholarly and Research Communication
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Social Sciences and Knowledge Management
•Bo-Christer Björk, Annikki Roos and Mari Lauri• Information Research, vol. 14 no. 1, March, 2009
• Out of 1-million, 350-thousand articles published
•Only 4.6% immediately openly available
•Only 3.5% available after one year embargo
•Only 11.3% available in libraries behind pay walls
Source: Neilson McKinsey Incite Poll http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/buzz-in-the-blogosphere-millions-more-bloggers-and-blog-readers/
•Based on Ulrich’s search for active, academic /
scholarly, peer reviewed journals
(total 53,097)
Source: Simon Fraser University
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/appendix-c-how-many-active-scholarly-peer-reviewed-journals/
200-million
53-thousand
KMbeing
One of Canada’s most influential Knowledge Mobilizers
(Top 10 of 100)2011 & 2012
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4594/Is-22-Tweets-Per-Day-the-Optimum.aspx
Is 22 Tweets-Per-Day the Optimum?
100-million users/56-million following 8+ accounts
100-million
53-thousand
Real time search capabilities
Social Media Is
NotA
Fad
http://researchimpact.ca
OK, I have an account on
Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Delicious, Google +, Flicker,
LinkedIn, Vimeo and Tumblr and
Cool! Now what?
Um…I have no idea.
http://melissaterras.blogspot.ca/2012/04/is-blogging-and-tweeting-about-research.html
“Most of my papers, before I blogged and tweeted them, had one to two downloads, even if they had been in the repository for months (or years, in some cases). Upon blogging and tweeting, within 24 hours, there were on average seventy downloads of my papers.”
“It's a really good thing to make your work open access. More people will read it than if it is behind a paywall. Even if it is the most downloaded paper from a journal in your field, Open Access makes it even more accessed.”
Applying Social Sciences Research for Public Benefit Using
Knowledge Mobilization and Social Media
The use of Twitter in this way increased web traffic to the searchable online
database of ResearchSnapshot by 270%
(www.researchimpact.ca/researchsearch)
(Google Analytics)
Phipps, D.J., Jensen, K.E. and Myers, J.G. (2012). Applying Social Sciences Research for Public Benefit Using Knowledge Mobilization and Social Media, Theoretical and
Methodological Approaches to Social Sciences and Knowledge Management, Asuncion Lopez-Varela (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0687-6, InTech.
1. Create online networks to better understand which issues are important to various stakeholders
2. Get feedback on your work, as a faster and in more ways more effective form of peer review
3. Meet other academics and researchers locally and globally who are interested in your work
Gary MyersKMbeing.com