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Session to introduce law academics and students to the basic social media tools which could help the research process.
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Researching in a Web 2.0 world:for lawyers
Emily Allbon
It’s a different world out there…I use books, Lexis and
Westlaw…but there’s all this
other stuff people are
using…
Fears…?
I’m too old to do social networking!
Fears…?
I don’t have time!
Fears…?
‘Hey it’s my research – I’m not
sharing it with anyone!’
Fears…?
Only for people with big egos!
Fears…?
Too hard to learn all these new technologies!
Advantages Build up community of interest Pinpoint breaking news, trends, get comments
on brand-new research, cases Finding new collaborators Getting more out of conferences – pre-
conference discussion, networking, participating if absent physically
Find and follow influential people Collect links to share with others
Too shy to get involved? Don’t worry –
not essential Different
degrees of engagement: Passive Creator
Pyramid of engagement
From The Facebook Era blog: http://www.thefacebookera.com Inspired by Guillaume du Gardier
Great for breaking news – comment on new cases
What are you doing? Flag up key articles Engage in discussion Superb for
event/conference engagement
Get all
the latest
on a
judgment
as it
breaks
Find audio file from press conference
Link to judgment
Hashtag lets you
search for a case
e.g. #SinghBC
A
Top Twitter tips
Use hashtags # to indicate subject of a tweet Retweet interesting things you hear from
those you follow e.g. RT @lawbore Use http://bit.ly to shorten urls you flag up
(you don’t want to waste your 140 characters on long urls)
See Dr Hazel Hall (Director of the Centre for Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University) for Twitter Tips in 10 minutes: http://bit.ly/bHgya0
Opportunity to join committeeInvitation to complete survey
Research report publishedCall for research proposals
Research journal publishedResearch report publishedResearch journal published
Research journal published
Call for conference papers
Research funding award news
Get the
latest
researc
h news
From Dr Hazel Hall’s Twitter Tips in 10 mins: http://bit.ly/bHgya0
Do I really want to be in a community?Altruistic reasons
Research moves more quickly if ideas are shared
You might be able to help others
Research is a community
Selfish reasons You’ll know what other
researchers in your field are doing
You’ll get information and references that will save you time and help you spot things that you would have missed.
Fame and reputation People tend to like to
employ people who they have prior knowledge of
Taken from Hooley, T - Networks, Online
Networks & Maximising your effectiveness
(Digital Researcher event 15/03/10)
http://bit.ly/b1LH6O
Delicious or Squidoo – social bookmarking Sharing your
favourite internet links & borrow others!
Building a collaborative space
Promotion of expertise
Great resource for starting research in an area
Accessible anywhere Incorporate tags
A search for ‘competition law’ will bring up any
bookmarks categorised as this by delicious users
Clicking on a link will show all the people who’ve
recommended it and under what categories (tags).
Great way to
see what other
sites people
are finding
useful
Here’s what a delicious user’s page looks like
Blogs
133, 000,000 blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002.
77% of internet users read blogs
72% say they blog to ‘share expertise’
Facts from Technorati’s ‘State of the Blogosphere 2009’ http://technorati.com/blogging/feature/state-of-the-blogosphere-2009/
To share ideas Keep active in writing Establish reputation Create a network –
reach out to others Have everything in one
place e.g. CV, articles, twitter feed, areas of expertise
FACTS!
WHY BOTHER BLOGGING?
Law blogs
Wiki Allows easy
creation/editing of interlinked webpages using simplified markup language.
Ideal for collaborative websites, both on a personal level or in business.
Examples: Wikipedia http://wiki.familyloref
ocus.com/ FamilyLawWiki
RSS & Readers To monitor news & blog
buzz Get news to you, rather
than you searching for it Can be blogs, table of
contents, (from publishers) twitter feeds, social bookmarking.
Lexis and Westlaw allow you to set up alerts and RSS for a number of subject areas
Try Google Reader or Bloglines,
Why use RSS? Currency – stay up-
to-date with debates in your area of research
Helps you find networks and gives opportunity to add to the body of scholarly knowledge
Bring all the info you’re interested in together – one-stop shop
Register for Westlaw personal account
Login with it!
Click on RSS Feeds
Create one!
Choose the areas you’re interested in…
How often do you want updating?
All done – now where do you want it to feed to?
Copy and paste the url into a RSS
reader…Click on the RSS logo to add to your
favourites bar
Subscribe via your favourites bar
Or RSS Reader
Content aggregators
Gather together all your social media stuff in one place iGoogle - http://www.google.com/ig Netvibes - http://www.netvibes.com/ Pageflakes - http://www.pageflakes.com/
Slideshare Great starting point Good for promotion Presentation
repository Doesn’t have to be
public
Social citation tools Zotero CiteULike LibraryThing Connotea Mendeley
…but don’t forget about RefWorks – paid for by university and very sophisticated. Can share with those outside City.
So what does all this mean?
Research will continue in
traditional ways…
BUT…social media offers
exciting options to:
Discover sources!
Meet new people in your field
Get ideas!Join
communities!
MyCity can help
Build communities within the university Blog and wiki capability Great for cross-disciplinary stuff Use Activities to allocate tasks – both yours
and colleagues Share documents/links for any collaborative
work via MyCity Share bookmarks Get it here: http://my.city.ac.uk/
Finding out more… Social Media Revolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8
Digital research tools: http://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/
List of useful social media tools/resources: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jubileegraduatecentre/training-and-events/tools.phtml and http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jubileegraduatecentre/training-and-events/resources.phtml
Slides from recent Vitae/BL event: Digital Researcher (15/03/10) http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/219961-223471/Digital-researcher-session-slides-online-.html
Thanks for images (flickr.com CC licence) Slide 1: ‘Laptop’ by sp3ccylad
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sp3ccylad/497684709/ Slide 2: ‘Fear’ by stumayhew
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stumayhew/3747070194/ Slide 9: ‘Shy’ by monogatari
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monogatari/754388045/ Slide 10: Facebook Era Blog http://www.thefacebookera.com Slide 11: ‘Twitter pack’ by carrotcreative
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carrotcreative/2511539541/ Slide 23: ‘One stop shop sign 1’ by marc e marc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcemarc/2385399277/ Slide 35: ‘8-sync-from-zotero’ by Mendeley.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mendeley/4089542428/ Slide 36: ‘Idea’ by brunkfordbraun
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunkfordbraun/330793963/
A big thank you to…
Dan Wilsher for being such a good sport