Social media for your

PRN

Scenarios for developping your Personal Research Network with

Social Media

IntroductionSocial media for the research

Research Cycle

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

Web 2.0 for research ?

« There is a general belief that research can only be published in academic journals and discussed face-to-face at a conference. That’s why traditional methods of counting and rating research contributions discourage the use of blogs. » http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1015

Research Cycle Social media offer opportunities to leverage

the research cycle

Personal Research Environment

Personal Research Network

Twitter

A social media: twitter

« the 21st century scholar has the tools not only to publish and disseminate, but also to facilitate the development of specialised audiences, and therefore of what is called "impact": people read, and in turn write about your work, which is in turn read by others. »

« These skills suit social media perfectly; what is still needed is to develop strategies to listen to our peers and audiences better, and to learn how to react publicly. Twitter can considerably level the playing field: you are not on the podium or on a stage. It is not meant to be an auditorium, but a seminar room. »

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/sep/12/twitter-revolutionise-academia-research

Twitter = infobesity

Information obesity aka Infobesity You will miss many things, but it does not matter: at least you will getsomething… You can organize yourself in order to get the best of it (but in fact you will never be sure) You will learn to manage frustration (which is probably a very good « soft skill » for a successful PhD).

Twitter = infobesity

Infobesity (cont.)Current audiences (january 2011):

Facebook: 610 millions users 30 milliards contributions / month

Twitter: 200 millions users 110 millions tweets / day ~1/4 users produce ~90% tweets

LinkedIn: 90 millions users

http://www.slideshare.net/Laurencelubrano/compilation-chiffres-cls-internet-et-rseaux-sociaux-janvier-2011

Twitter = infobesity

http://blog.kinoa.com/2011/02/10/essentiel-twitter-10-infographies/

Twitter = infobesity

Infobesity (cont.) « Currently, more than 60 percent of U.S.

Twitter users fail to return the following month, or in other words, Twitter’s audience retention rate, or the percentage of a given month’s users who come back the following month, is currently about 40 percent. » According to Nielsen in 2009

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitter-quitters-post-roadblock-to-long-term-growth/

Twitter = infobesity

http://blog.kinoa.com/2011/02/10/essentiel-twitter-10-infographies/

Follow

Followtopics

#hashtag Identify the relevant keywords: #hashtags

Discover the main hashtags, directly related to your topic but also closely related hashtags.

How ? What hashtag Hashtagify

Learn Twitter @ Grovo http://www.grovo.com/browse/product/twitter-personal

Whathashtag

Hashtagify

The archivist

#how #hashtags ?

How to use #hastags ? Once you have identified the relevant

hashtags Search for them and save the searches

Follow the tweets for the searches Identify the relevant people to follow

FollowConferences, workshops and events

Twitter for conferences

Discover new conferences and events By following hashtags feeds

More and more conferences and events have an official twitter account.

People announce the conferences and events they are going to attend.

Twitter for conferences

Follow conferences (as if you were there … almost) And even interact with people (audience and

speakers) at the conference More and more conference have a dedicated

hashtag The hashtag is used during the conference by

the audience to comment talks, by speakers to provide additionnal information about their talk… The hashtag is also used before and after the

conference Useful to identify people to include in your PRN.

Followresources

Stay up to date 2.0

Most of the Web 2.0 services you are using have their twitter account: CiteULike, @citeulike

Social Networking for Researchers http://www.citeulike.org/

Zotero, @zotero I'm the free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help

you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

http://www.zotero.org

Stay informed about the latest features, updates, offers…

Stay up to date 2.0

Even more complex, i.e. Mendeley: Hashtag: #mendeley Mendeley Tips, @MendeleyTips

Helpful tips and tricks on how to get the most out of #Mendeley.

Mendeley Support, @MendeleySupport Support for the free social software (Win, Mac,

Linux) for managing and sharing research papers!

Victor @ Mendeley, @mendeley_com Mendeley organizes your research and connects

you to the world's largest collaboration platform for academics.

Stay up to date 2.0

Mendeley (cont.): Mendeley Ltd, @Paperoftheday

Get interesting, bizarre, and amusing papers daily in your twitter feed via Mendeley Ltd's

Mendeley API, @mendeleyAPI The Cloud

Stay up to date 2.0

Same for publishers, repositories… SpringerOpen, @SpringerOpen

Open access for authors in all disciplines http://www.springeropen.com

PLoS, @PLoS PLoS - Research Made Public http://www.plos.org

…

Stay up to date 2.0

And for social media ResearchGate, @ResearchGate

Creating an online community for scientists and researchers!

http://www.researchgate.net/ Academia.edu, @academia_edu

Follow research http://www.academia.edu/

Docteo, @docteo_net Le média des jeunes chercheurs http://www.docteo.net

Followpeople

Follow… And then ?

Select people to follow from hashtags, conferences… Check suggested and similar people.

Sort people in lists by topics You can follow the tweets of a given list

separately from your main timeline.

Expand your « follow » list

Use case You are interested by two or three people experts

in different domains You should probably be interested by other people

who are also following them or interested by people they are following in common;

Try to twiangulate them At http://twiangulate.com/search/ And locate who they follow in common or who is

following them. There are quite a few different other services

Klout http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/george_stephanopoulos_wolf_blitzer_ana.

php

ExtractLinks to papers, diaporama, posts, video…

What else ? Tweets and people

But what else ? Links to on line resources

What’s the interest compared to social bookmarks ? Topicality

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Links Do not waste your time

Use « content curation » and « content curator » tools

Use RSS readers and filters Bookmarks links

Tools to automatically add links in twitter favorites to social bookmarks services (diigo)

Select and filter

Select and filterWith content curation tools

Content curation ?

« In the near future, experts predict that content on the web will double every 72 hours. The detached analysis of an algorithm will no longer be enough to find what we are looking for.

To satisfy the people’s hunger for great content on any topic imaginable, there will need to be a new category of individual working online. Someone whose job it is not to create more content, but to make sense of all the content that others are creating. To find the best and most relevant content and bring it forward.

The people who choose to take on this role will be known as Content Curators. »

http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2009/09/manifesto-for-the-content-curator-the-next-big-social-media-job-of-the-future-.html

What about curation ?

Use content curator tools for yourself Content curator tools:

1. Regularly extract contents from twitter, facebook, rss feeds… based on curator’s inputs: hashtags, lists, keywords…

2. Extract the links and aggregate the target documents (web page, video, slide show…) in one place.

What about curation ?

Use content curator tools for yourself Content curator tools (cont.):

3. Propose an automatic organization based on ad-hoc criteria (favor the contents that have been the most retweeted for example)

4. Provide editorial tools so that the curator can interactively alter the automatic organization: remove content, move content…

5. Publish it

For your own watch use curation tools until step 3

Provide you with a survey of links content from Twitter

Curator tools / paper.li

Curator tools / paper.li

Curator tools / paper.li

Curator tools / Kurat

Curator tools / Kurat

Select and filterWith rss readers and filters

RSS feeds Read twitter from your feeds reader

Follow someone: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/USER

NAME.rss http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ID.rss

Get user’s id from http://www.idfromuser.com/ Follow a list:

http://api.twitter.com/1/USERNAME/lists/LISTNAME/statuses.atom Where USERNAME is the creator of the list and

LISTNAME the name of the list

RSS Feeds Use RSS Feeds to filter

Use Yahoo Pipes

Filter

Filter

Contribute

Setup your account

Basic setup advices Select a picture,

No egg Integrate the hashtags you are interested

in in your short profile description, Do not follow automatically the people who

follow you:: be selective ;o) Provide a web site address that describes

your research activities.

Be an « active twittos »

Ask questions (use hashtag) How Twitter users are getting their questions

answered http://mashable.com/2011/06/01/twitter-qa/

Submit your own links with a brief comment (use hashtags)

Don’t be shy: express and test your hypothesis, proposals, ideas (if you need more than 140 characters, use tumblr for example) Might be a good exercice

Be an « active twittos »

A good way to tweet Tumblr

Microblogging Similar to Twitter but with more publishing

features Sounds much more like a blog

No characters limitations: it is really possible to express « ideas »

Able to post directly to twitter Do not forget to include relevant hashtags in the

title or text of your tumblr posts.

Tumblr.

Tumblr.

Learn Tumblr. @ Grovo: http://www.grovo.com/browse/product/tumblr

Create your community(ies)

Easy to create « instant » communities: Define a specific hashtag (specific enough not

to be used by anyone else, c.f. #cielge) Notify it to your partners Send tweets with the dedicated hashtag Search for the hashtag and follow the tweets

Easy to join (and to leave)

Easy to invite

Similar to what happens for conferences or workshops

Create your community(ies)

Use « expressive » hashtags To help people discriminate the tweets

Want to ask a question ? Use #hashtag?? (will be filitered as #hashtag by

twitter) Want to show your support ?

Use #hashtag++ Want to show your disappointment ?

Use #hastag— Define your own…

DiigoSocial Bookmarking

Diigo Digest of Internet Information, Groups and

Other stuff

Online bookmaking website

Highligther and Sticky Notes

Groups-based Collaborative Research

Personal Learning Network

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo : concept

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo : Get Started

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo : Register

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo :ResearchAnnotate, Archive, Organize

Highlight and Add sticky notes on webpages

Archive pages forever and make them searchable

Organize your items by tags or lists

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo : Share

Building Personal Learning Network

Use "Annotated links" to share your "diigoed" page with anyone!

Send to twitter, Facebook, Blog

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo : Collaborate

Create a Group Knowledge Repository

Create a private or public group for your company, class, and team

Pool and organize resources using group bookmarks

Group sticky notes & group forums are great for discussion

http://www.diigo.com/

Diigo : WebSlides Convert blogs, rss feeds, bookmarks to

slideshows

Play, browse, and annotate any list of URLs as an interactive slideshow!

http://slide.diigo.com

http://www.diigo.com/

Annex

More Find an appropriate twitter reader

The default twitter web interface is not the most efficient to use twitter.

There are many twitter readers Choose the best for you… Should I suggest one: twhril (for Windows and

Mac) Based on Adobe Air Probably not appropriate if you become addict

More More tools around Twitter

Twitterverse http://www.briansolis.com/2011/01/exploring-the-

twitterverse/

And more « a guide to using Twitter in university

research, teaching, and impact activities » A guide for academics and researchers

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/

And more Social media: A guide for researchers

Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work.

And even more

Credits Adapted Twitter logo credit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/, Matt Hamm

Infobesity illustration credit: photothèque UniGe, http://phototheque.unige.ch/, Jacques Erard