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Paths to use twitter for research purposes: enhance your personal research network with social media.
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Social media for your
PRN
Scenarios for developping your Personal Research Network with
Social Media
IntroductionSocial media for the research
Research Cycle
Excerpt from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
Web 2.0 for research ?
« There is a general belief that research can only be published in academic journals and discussed face-to-face at a conference. That’s why traditional methods of counting and rating research contributions discourage the use of blogs. » http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1015
Research Cycle Social media offer opportunities to leverage
the research cycle
Personal Research Environment
Personal Research Network
A social media: twitter
« the 21st century scholar has the tools not only to publish and disseminate, but also to facilitate the development of specialised audiences, and therefore of what is called "impact": people read, and in turn write about your work, which is in turn read by others. »
« These skills suit social media perfectly; what is still needed is to develop strategies to listen to our peers and audiences better, and to learn how to react publicly. Twitter can considerably level the playing field: you are not on the podium or on a stage. It is not meant to be an auditorium, but a seminar room. »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/sep/12/twitter-revolutionise-academia-research
Twitter = infobesity
Information obesity aka Infobesity You will miss many things, but it does not matter: at least you will getsomething… You can organize yourself in order to get the best of it (but in fact you will never be sure) You will learn to manage frustration (which is probably a very good « soft skill » for a successful PhD).
Twitter = infobesity
Infobesity (cont.)Current audiences (january 2011):
Facebook: 610 millions users 30 milliards contributions / month
Twitter: 200 millions users 110 millions tweets / day ~1/4 users produce ~90% tweets
LinkedIn: 90 millions users
http://www.slideshare.net/Laurencelubrano/compilation-chiffres-cls-internet-et-rseaux-sociaux-janvier-2011
Twitter = infobesity
http://blog.kinoa.com/2011/02/10/essentiel-twitter-10-infographies/
Twitter = infobesity
Infobesity (cont.) « Currently, more than 60 percent of U.S.
Twitter users fail to return the following month, or in other words, Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 percent. » According to Nielsen in 2009
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitter-quitters-post-roadblock-to-long-term-growth/
Twitter = infobesity
http://blog.kinoa.com/2011/02/10/essentiel-twitter-10-infographies/
Follow
Followtopics
#hashtag Identify the relevant keywords: #hashtags
Discover the main hashtags, directly related to your topic but also closely related hashtags.
How ? What hashtag Hashtagify
Learn Twitter @ Grovo http://www.grovo.com/browse/product/twitter-personal
Whathashtag
Hashtagify
The archivist
#how #hashtags ?
How to use #hastags ? Once you have identified the relevant
hashtags Search for them and save the searches
Follow the tweets for the searches Identify the relevant people to follow
FollowConferences, workshops and events
Twitter for conferences
Discover new conferences and events By following hashtags feeds
More and more conferences and events have an official twitter account.
People announce the conferences and events they are going to attend.
Twitter for conferences
Follow conferences (as if you were there … almost) And even interact with people (audience and
speakers) at the conference More and more conference have a dedicated
hashtag The hashtag is used during the conference by
the audience to comment talks, by speakers to provide additionnal information about their talk… The hashtag is also used before and after the
conference Useful to identify people to include in your PRN.
Followresources
Stay up to date 2.0
Most of the Web 2.0 services you are using have their twitter account: CiteULike, @citeulike
Social Networking for Researchers http://www.citeulike.org/
Zotero, @zotero I'm the free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help
you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
http://www.zotero.org
Stay informed about the latest features, updates, offers…
Stay up to date 2.0
Even more complex, i.e. Mendeley: Hashtag: #mendeley Mendeley Tips, @MendeleyTips
Helpful tips and tricks on how to get the most out of #Mendeley.
Mendeley Support, @MendeleySupport Support for the free social software (Win, Mac,
Linux) for managing and sharing research papers!
Victor @ Mendeley, @mendeley_com Mendeley organizes your research and connects
you to the world's largest collaboration platform for academics.
Stay up to date 2.0
Mendeley (cont.): Mendeley Ltd, @Paperoftheday
Get interesting, bizarre, and amusing papers daily in your twitter feed via Mendeley Ltd's
Mendeley API, @mendeleyAPI The Cloud
Stay up to date 2.0
Same for publishers, repositories… SpringerOpen, @SpringerOpen
Open access for authors in all disciplines http://www.springeropen.com
PLoS, @PLoS PLoS - Research Made Public http://www.plos.org
…
Stay up to date 2.0
And for social media ResearchGate, @ResearchGate
Creating an online community for scientists and researchers!
http://www.researchgate.net/ Academia.edu, @academia_edu
Follow research http://www.academia.edu/
Docteo, @docteo_net Le média des jeunes chercheurs http://www.docteo.net
Followpeople
Follow… And then ?
Select people to follow from hashtags, conferences… Check suggested and similar people.
Sort people in lists by topics You can follow the tweets of a given list
separately from your main timeline.
Expand your « follow » list
Use case You are interested by two or three people experts
in different domains You should probably be interested by other people
who are also following them or interested by people they are following in common;
Try to twiangulate them At http://twiangulate.com/search/ And locate who they follow in common or who is
following them. There are quite a few different other services
Klout http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/george_stephanopoulos_wolf_blitzer_ana.
php
ExtractLinks to papers, diaporama, posts, video…
What else ? Tweets and people
But what else ? Links to on line resources
What’s the interest compared to social bookmarks ? Topicality
??
?
??
Links Do not waste your time
Use « content curation » and « content curator » tools
Use RSS readers and filters Bookmarks links
Tools to automatically add links in twitter favorites to social bookmarks services (diigo)
Select and filter
Select and filterWith content curation tools
Content curation ?
« In the near future, experts predict that content on the web will double every 72 hours. The detached analysis of an algorithm will no longer be enough to find what we are looking for.
To satisfy the people’s hunger for great content on any topic imaginable, there will need to be a new category of individual working online. Someone whose job it is not to create more content, but to make sense of all the content that others are creating. To find the best and most relevant content and bring it forward.
The people who choose to take on this role will be known as Content Curators. »
http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2009/09/manifesto-for-the-content-curator-the-next-big-social-media-job-of-the-future-.html
What about curation ?
Use content curator tools for yourself Content curator tools:
1. Regularly extract contents from twitter, facebook, rss feeds… based on curator’s inputs: hashtags, lists, keywords…
2. Extract the links and aggregate the target documents (web page, video, slide show…) in one place.
What about curation ?
Use content curator tools for yourself Content curator tools (cont.):
3. Propose an automatic organization based on ad-hoc criteria (favor the contents that have been the most retweeted for example)
4. Provide editorial tools so that the curator can interactively alter the automatic organization: remove content, move content…
5. Publish it
For your own watch use curation tools until step 3
Provide you with a survey of links content from Twitter
Curator tools / paper.li
Curator tools / paper.li
Curator tools / paper.li
Curator tools / Kurat
Curator tools / Kurat
Select and filterWith rss readers and filters
RSS feeds Read twitter from your feeds reader
Follow someone: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USER
NAME.rss http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ID.rss
Get user’s id from http://www.idfromuser.com/ Follow a list:
http://api.twitter.com/1/USERNAME/lists/LISTNAME/statuses.atom Where USERNAME is the creator of the list and
LISTNAME the name of the list
RSS Feeds Use RSS Feeds to filter
Use Yahoo Pipes
Filter
Filter
Contribute
Setup your account
Basic setup advices Select a picture,
No egg Integrate the hashtags you are interested
in in your short profile description, Do not follow automatically the people who
follow you:: be selective ;o) Provide a web site address that describes
your research activities.
Be an « active twittos »
Ask questions (use hashtag) How Twitter users are getting their questions
answered http://mashable.com/2011/06/01/twitter-qa/
Submit your own links with a brief comment (use hashtags)
Don’t be shy: express and test your hypothesis, proposals, ideas (if you need more than 140 characters, use tumblr for example) Might be a good exercice
Be an « active twittos »
A good way to tweet Tumblr
Microblogging Similar to Twitter but with more publishing
features Sounds much more like a blog
No characters limitations: it is really possible to express « ideas »
Able to post directly to twitter Do not forget to include relevant hashtags in the
title or text of your tumblr posts.
Tumblr.
Tumblr.
Learn Tumblr. @ Grovo: http://www.grovo.com/browse/product/tumblr
Create your community(ies)
Easy to create « instant » communities: Define a specific hashtag (specific enough not
to be used by anyone else, c.f. #cielge) Notify it to your partners Send tweets with the dedicated hashtag Search for the hashtag and follow the tweets
Easy to join (and to leave)
Easy to invite
Similar to what happens for conferences or workshops
Create your community(ies)
Use « expressive » hashtags To help people discriminate the tweets
Want to ask a question ? Use #hashtag?? (will be filitered as #hashtag by
twitter) Want to show your support ?
Use #hashtag++ Want to show your disappointment ?
Use #hastag— Define your own…
DiigoSocial Bookmarking
Diigo Digest of Internet Information, Groups and
Other stuff
Online bookmaking website
Highligther and Sticky Notes
Groups-based Collaborative Research
Personal Learning Network
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo : concept
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo : Get Started
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo : Register
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo :ResearchAnnotate, Archive, Organize
Highlight and Add sticky notes on webpages
Archive pages forever and make them searchable
Organize your items by tags or lists
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo : Share
Building Personal Learning Network
Use "Annotated links" to share your "diigoed" page with anyone!
Send to twitter, Facebook, Blog
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo : Collaborate
Create a Group Knowledge Repository
Create a private or public group for your company, class, and team
Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks
Group sticky notes & group forums are great for discussion
http://www.diigo.com/
Diigo : WebSlides Convert blogs, rss feeds, bookmarks to
slideshows
Play, browse, and annotate any list of URLs as an interactive slideshow!
http://slide.diigo.com
http://www.diigo.com/
Annex
More Find an appropriate twitter reader
The default twitter web interface is not the most efficient to use twitter.
There are many twitter readers Choose the best for you… Should I suggest one: twhril (for Windows and
Mac) Based on Adobe Air Probably not appropriate if you become addict
More More tools around Twitter
Twitterverse http://www.briansolis.com/2011/01/exploring-the-
twitterverse/
And more « a guide to using Twitter in university
research, teaching, and impact activities » A guide for academics and researchers
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
And more Social media: A guide for researchers
Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work.
Credits Adapted Twitter logo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/, Matt Hamm
Infobesity illustration credit: photothèque UniGe, http://phototheque.unige.ch/, Jacques Erard