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Principles. Social Research Methods. 12 Most Embeddable Social Content Curation Tools. Content curation is an important component of a digital marketer’s toolbox. Often just as important as the curation step is deciding how to share with your audience or customers, and a great way to do that is to embed that curated content within your blog or website. These tools can help you do just that. (And just to be fair, they’re in alphabetical order.) 1. 4sqmap If you have a Foursquare list that fits with content you want to showcase, use 4sqmap to embed the data visualization onto your website or blog. 2.

Dialogfeed is probably the easiest way to curate content about a product or service from social streams and around the web. 3. Maybe there’s some rich content — photos, videos, audio or more — around the web that you would love to use. 4. Feedgrabbr relies on RSS feeds to mix, match and filter results that will leave you with what you want and an ability to embed them where you want. 5. 6. 7. If you love visualizations, Pearltrees is the tool for you. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. OBSSR e-Source – Home. Social Sciences. Research Impact. What is impact? The Research Excellence Framework defines impact as: "an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia.

Impact includes, but is not limited to, an effect on, change or benefit to: The activity, attitude, awareness, behaviour, capacity, opportunity, performance, policy, practice, process or understanding Of an audience, beneficiary, community, constituency, organisation or individuals In any geographical location whether locally, regionally, nationally or internationally Impact includes the reduction or prevention of harm, risk, cost or other negative effects. " However, impact should also be understood in a broader sense as encompassing all of the public engagement, dissemination, and communication activities that aim to bring research done at the University to a wider, non-academic audience.

On these pages you will find information about: Impact and the 2014 REF. Poverty, place and ageing society | Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Welcome | The Equality Trust. Understanding Society – The UK Household Longitudinal Study. Sociology - University of Surrey - Guildford. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page. The SRA | Home of the Social Research Community. The British Sociological Association. Academy of Social Sciences - Home Page. The Campaign for Social Science. Policy Press Home Page.