linking research with social media

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This is a presentation I gave at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology 2013 (http://www.sebiology.org/meetings/Valencia/Valencia.html). It contains lots of tips for scientists to use social media appropriately and efficiently. It also highlights examples of social media in academia and types of possible content.

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Linking research and teaching with social media

Anne Osterrieder (Oxford Brookes University)Jeremy Pritchard (University of Birmingham)

#SEB2013

Why do we communicate?

How do we communicate?

Social media is just another tool

Research

Writing

Networking

Your work

Reflections

Teaching

Outreach

Your work

Social media

Twitter

WeblogGoogle+

Flickr

Facebook

Research

Writing

Networking

Reflections

Teaching

Outreach

Test the water – you can just read before

registering

Make it easy for others to find you – include relevant keywords in

your profile

Find interesting people to follow

• Use ‘search’ function with your keywords.

• Go through your contacts’ friends lists.

• Curated lists, circles…

• Check out relevant hashtags.

Hashtags # - turn a word into a link

Provide content

Blogging

http://www.aobblog.com - powered by http://www.wordpress.com

Micro-Blogging

http://www.twitter.com

Photos

http://www.flickr.com

Audio

http://www.SoundCloud.com

Pages

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cytogenomics-and-Epigenetics-Laboratory/160417117341406

Increasing the reach of your content

• Make use of hashtags.

• It’s OK to ask others to re-share (e.g. subject-specific accounts, users with many followers…).

Engage with others

Don’t be afraid to follow and interact with people – that’s

why they are on social media!

What to be aware of

Think before posting unpublished data, gossip, too personal things…

“Don’t feed the trolls”!

Think about discussion guidelines for your blog, do not let “flame wars” explode.

If in doubt, step away!

Be aware of the nature of the medium – missing body language, non-English

speakers, emoticons, interpretation….

Misunderstandings will happen, but can be cleared up.

Use social mediaefficiently

Managing ‘information overload’

• Follow only relevant content.

• Make use of lists, ‘favourite’ functions, productivity software to organise information.

• Dip in and out rather than trying to keep up.

• Smartphone/tablet apps.

Resources

• http://www.plantcellbiology.com/resources/

• http://slideshare.net/anneosterrieder

@AnneOsterrieder @DrJPritchard@Bioscicareer#SEB2013

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