Disseminate and Communicateblogging and microblogging

The Connected Researcher:Networking and Collaborating with Social Media

What is blogging?

LeFever, Lee. 2008. Blogs in plain English [Online]. Available at: http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs [Accessed: 12 February 2013].

Types of blog

adapted from Wikipedia. 2011. Blog [Online]. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog [Accessed 12 February 2013].

personal

organisational

genremedia

reflection; communication; archiving

informational; marketing

politics; travel; educationlinks; videos, photos

How to blog

go to wordpress.com

username:

password:

connectedresearcher.wordpress.com

Why blog?

MacLeod, Hugh. 2011. I have nothing to say [Online]. Available at: http://gapingvoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/zzzzzz7654191a.jpeg

[Accessed: 16 February 2012].

Why blog?

use as a notebook 1

record thoughts on events 2

alternative focus (with a writing element)

crowdsource

knowledge transfer

links to articles

collect feedback

generate discussion

collaborate

enhance reputation

outreach

reduce feelings of isolation

increase sense of belonging

blog as online ‘base camp’

direct people to blog to save producing documents 2

momentum to explore other technologies

explores the process of research work

critical appraisal

follow events

reflect share network collate learn

1. Richer, Suzi. 2009. Blogging your way to completion… [Online]. Available at: http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1271-194421/Blogging-your-way-to-completion.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].2. Weller, M. 2007. The ed technie: is blogging a good use of time? [Online]. Available at: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/04/is_blogging_a_g.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].

Academic blogs

Discovering blogs

commenting and trackbacksblogrolls

Searching blogs

Which blogging platform?

Which blogging platform?

Which blogging platform?

Blogging well

know WHY you’re bloggingknow your constraintsknow your audienceengage and connectblog regularly

Avoiding blogging pitfalls

respect plagiarism and copyrightdo not tolerate abusedevelop your writing style

think like a journalist, not an academic eliminate redundancy use links

create a Facebook page and a Twitter profile to promote your blog

buy your own domain name

exploit blogrolls and trackbacks and repost others’ posts

post frequently and search engines are more likely to find you

use clear naming conventions in posts

specialise to gain recognition

Promoting your blog

What is microblogging?

exchanging small elements of content, whether words, images or videos..

conversation...

people write short messages

people read the messages

people reply to the messages

blog compactly and socially

share text, quotes, links, images, videos and audio

Why tweet?

Why tweet?

Academic tweeting

Guess that hashtag!

#yolo

#fb#TwitJC

#DR12Vitae

#PhDChat

#CR13

#solo12

#ff

#Acwri

Tweeting professionally

Do you consciously separate personal and professional use of social media?

Searching Twitter

Tracking tweets

Tracking tweets