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Social media for research communication
Pier Andrea PiraniPete Cranston
Euforic Services
Nairobi, 5 July 2010
Tools for conversations
“Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
5 things to know…
1 Wikis How to write content
as a group
2 Blogging How to put content on the web
3 Tagging & Social Bookmaring How to keyword your work and
sharing your links
4 Feeds How to move content across the
web
5 Mashups How to bring the information
together
How can this change the way we work?
Working on a document online Documenting the research process Disseminating findings Producing a newsletter Storing&sharing your links Seeing what is new and making content
travel
Working with wikiswiki
Write some text
wiki
Write some text
change
wiki
Write some Text (someone, 12/11/08)
Change some text(another one, 14/11/08)
Final Text(me, today)
edit log
wiki
Finaltext
view
Why wikis? Articles can be created or edited at anytime
by anyone – limitations are possible Articles are editable through the web
browser One-click access to the history/versioning
page Recent additions/modifications of articles
can be monitored actively or passively Easy reversal of changes
Working with blogs
Blog•Title& Enter your text once
email•Title& Enter your text once
Website
•Title& Enter your text once
•Title& Enter your text once
Newsreader
print•Title& Enter your text once
Why blogs? Open content Ability for readers to leave comments in an
interactive format Combining text, images, and links to other blogs,
web pages, and other topic related media Sharing your research ideas Gaining feedback, discussing and validating ideas Disseminating news and general updates on
research projects Engaging communities ….
Working with social bookmarking
bookmark
•Interesting link•A website url•A document•A service•List of links
del.icio.us
•Interesting link•A website url•A document•A service•List of links
website
•Interesting link•A website url•A document•A service•List of links
Email alert•Interesting link•A website url•A document•A service•List of links
Why social bookmarking?
Shared database of links (bookmarks) Free choice of tagging View bookmarks of others Annotate and use tags to produce lists for
your website Find colleagues with similar interests
Social Bookmarking
Working with RSS feeds
Why RSS feeds? Working more efficiently More timely information
Keep users up to date with the latest developments
Publish your content on other web sites Let other services re-use and re-mix your
content
Google SitemapScholar
Blogsearch News
Social media for research communication
Pier Andrea PiraniPete Cranston
Euforic Services
Nairobi, 5 July 2010
