twitter and social media – why tweet? a 5 min presentation for skeptical scientists
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Why use social media as a scientist? Building an internet presence Broadcasting your research and activities Access to news and information Networking with peers Consuming, connecting, creating, and curating - See Osterrieder Plant Methods 2013, 9:26 http://www.plantmethods.com/content/9/1/26TRANSCRIPT
Twitter and social media – why tweet?
Sophien Kamounhttp://KamounLab.net
@KamounLab
Building an internet presence
Broadcasting your research and activities
Access to news and information
Networking with peers
Consuming, connecting, creating, and curating (Osterrieder Plant Methods 2013, 9:26)
Why use social media as a scientist?
Open platform
Easy to access through mobile devices
Brevity (less than 140 characters)
Links to longer photos, videos, documents etc.
Powerful messaging tool
Consuming, connecting, and creating
Twitter is the most popular platform in science
Twitter username/handle, e.g. @KamounLab
Tweeps: people who follow you
RT: ReTweet
MT: Modified Tweet
Hashtag, e.g. #MPMI2014
Twitter jargon
See Twitter Glossary: http://support.twitter.com/articles/166337-the-twitter-glossary
Broadcast about my lab and research
Broadcast about stuff I come across that I find
interesting (science or anything else)
Reporting news and tidbits
“Pearls of wisdom”
#iamascientist
What do I tweet about?
Curation: Scoopit and Storify
Tweets are transient and become tricky to retrieve
Storify is a platform that enables archiving a
collection of tweets (and anything else)
Ideal for conferences and discussions on specific
topics
Curation: Scoopit
Another platform for curating internet information
Curation is the future of the internet because of
the huge content creation, e.g. Best of Youtube
The curator is an expert and thus is presumably
superior to automated curation platforms