Social media are important for scientists to let the world know whet they are doing. It is essential to communicate with scientists and the general public. It enhances their scientific relevance as well as their societal relevance

1. Social media for scientists
Wouter Gerritsma, Wageningen UR Library

2. The power of a tweet

5. Within 24 h, 900 views, after 30 h 1039 views

6. Imagine what happens when Michael
Müller tweets about his latest article

7. Which he actually did the a day ago

8. And got nearly 300 article views

9. What is important!
 @nutrigenomics tweeted about an article published in
open access journal!
 Any user with a mobile device, PC or other internet
connection can access this paper

10. Is this going to fly for Nature?

11. But perhaps
you don't like twitter
Source: http://fxvdigital.com/our-services/twitter-design/

12. Some essential social media tools for
scientists
 LinkedIn
● Academia.edu & Researchgate.net
 Google Scholar citations
● ResearcherID & ScopusID & ORCID
 Mendeley.com
 Slideshare.net
 Wikipedia
 Blogs

13. Your contact book

17. Full screen image with title

19. ResearcherID profile of Hans Baveco

21. Omnipresent h-index

22. Google Scholar Citations, Researcher
ID, Scopus
Updates Availability
GS Citations Automatic Public
ResearcherID Manually Public
Scopus Automatic Next month?

23. Your master number

27. Thank you!
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On the Web:
@wowter
wowter.net
www.slideshare.net/wowter