#DH23 Thing Eleven: Storing Information | DH23Things. In a very short time, researchers have gone from storing all their information – books, articles, notes, data, and documents – on paper, and often in a single, vulnerable copy, to digital storage on computers. Many of us found that even this wasn’t foolproof and we could still lose large amounts of useful information and important research files if our computers failed (hard drive dies, we get a computer virus, or our computer was stolen). Many of us took to keeping an additional digital ‘backup’ on an external hard drive, floppy disc, CD or datastick. This gave peace of mind against the risks of losing information, but required a complicated process for managing files and making sure we had the right, up-to-date ones, and that external drives, datasticks etc themselves aren’t lost, stolen or corrupted.
We’re looking at two tools this week, Google Drive and Dropbox. Dropbox Google Drive Task Reflective Framework Like this: Like Loading... Running a successful academic blog can make you feel like a rock star: authenticity and narrative are essential for forging your own digital identity. Many PhD students are turning to blogs and social media for tips on writing a thesis. Running one such blog, Inger Mewburn of The Thesis Whisperer writes that determining your online identity, the authenticity of your voice and setting the correct narrative tone are all key to striking a chord with your audience and engaging in a very valuable research community. I recently attended a workshop on career development put on by RMIT University, where I am a Research Fellow in the School of Graduate Research.
The room was full of people like me – academics who had finished their PhD sometime in the last five years, all wondering how to get hold of money to do more research. During the session, someone told the room that I ran a blog for PhD students. A person at my table turned to me with shock and said: “Oh – YOU are The Thesis Whisperer? The blog, The Thesis Whisperer, invites people to talk about the experience of doing a PhD and share their knowledge with others. Social media expert? {792D13D2-B491-43E2-B0F5-40A31AEAF333}Researchers of Tomorrow Year 2 report PDF.pdf (application/pdf Object) Guide-to-Twitter-February-2012.pdf (application/pdf Object) Research Intelligence - The doctor will advise you now. PhDs and postdocs turn to social media to answer their pressing questions.
Elizabeth Gibney reports Credit: Rex Features What's the gist, physicist? Online forums provide early-career researchers with insights they do not feel comfortable seeking from official sources Earlier this month, Nadine Muller, an honorary research associate at the University of Hull's English department who recently passed her PhD, sent an innocuous post on microblogging site Twitter for ideas on what to include in a talk she was about to give on advice for doctoral students. "What #phdadvice do you wish someone had given you earlier, before you had to find out for yourself? " The response was overwhelming. Other PhD students started to ask questions and receive answers. "I was initially surprised by the level of response because I was only asking [ahead of] the talk.
"I might be a bit of a sounding board before they go on to talk to colleagues," she said. Status: like-minded elizabeth.gibney@tsleducation.com. 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. Web materials 1: Links and resources. Digidol | Developing Digital Literacy.