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Social media: 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. http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

100 Ways to Teach with Twitter

These resources actually provide over 110 ideas for, and examples of, using Twitter in the classroom. It’s been almost 8 months since I published the post, “6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom” , about uses of the popular micro-blogging tool in the instructional setting. This post generated a lot of traffic, and continues to attract hundreds of viewers every week. Since that brief posting, I’ve come across a lot of articles containing examples and suggestions for using Twitter in instructional applications. http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to-teach-with-twitter/

5 Ways to Use LinkedIn Groups to Build Influential Connections

If you want to build truly influential relationships online , you have to find places where you can consistently add value, spend quality time and have engaging conversations with members of your target demographic . LinkedIn Groups offers one of the best ways to make the most of your social media engagement time, but you must adopt the right strategy to be successful. This article will show you how. LinkedIn allows you to join up to 50 groups, but you can’t possibly be effective and spend enough time to make a difference in 50 groups. What works best is to focus your time and effort on a deep and narrow approach in order to build influence within LinkedIn Groups , enhance your credibility and generate new connections. Evaluate the groups you’ve joined or intend to join and focus on the top 3 to 5 groups that most accurately represent your target demographic . http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/5-ways-to-use-linkedin-groups-to-build-influential-connections/
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SEO Link Building Using Delicious

The more links to your site from quality websites, the higher you'll rank on Google. But obtaining quality links is getting harder. In my pursuit of quality links I often turn to the social bookmarking tool Delicious (www.delicious.com). It allows you to link to sites you like and then categorize these sites using keywords called "tags." You can also explore sites that others have tagged that might be related to your needs. Delicious is definitely worth getting acquainted with.
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Influential Marketing Blog: Manifesto For The Content Curator: The Next Big Social Media Job Of The Future ?

Every hour thousands of new videos are uploaded online. Blog posts are written and published. Millions of tweets and other short messages are shared. To say there is a flood of content being created online now seems like a serious understatement.

Putting a Price on Social Connections

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2009/tc2009047_031301.htm Editor's note: This is the first in a series, Value of Virtual Friends, exploring the ways our lives are affected—financially and otherwise—by the multiplicity of online social and professional contacts. Messaging with the boss much? Maybe you ought to be.

Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors (such as relationships, connections, or interactions). A social network perspective is employed to model the structure of a social group, how this structure influences other variables, or how structures change over time. [ 1 ] The study of these structures uses methods in social network analysis to identify influential nodes, local and global structures, and network dynamics. Social networks are distinct from information , biological , or electrical networks , but theories and methods generalizing to all of these complex networks are studied in the field of network science . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology , sociology , statistics , and graph theory .

Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services: <strong>Code4Lib: Reaching Users Through Facebook </strong>

http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/12/code4lib-reaching-users-through.html Facebook Athenaeum is an open source application that integrates library resources directly into the Facebook website. Facebook is one of the single most-visited websites in the world, and its popularity among college-aged students provides a unique opportunity for libraries to redefine how they interact with students. This article walks you through the deployment Facebook Athenaeum, and discusses some of the usage trends and pitfalls of deploying applications using the Facebook API. Introduction In 2007, Facebook was positioning itself to overtake MySpace as the number one social website. Until this point, Facebook had only been available to higher-education institutions, but they were in the process of opening the site up to all users and rolling out an API to allow developers to create “useful” applications.
So you use Nature Network, but what do you really think of the impact of Web 2.0 on research? Social Not Working? :Is Web 2.0 only being embraced within specific interest communities? What is the motivation for a busy researcher to get involved, even as a consumer?

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