6. An online diary, with entries (known as posts)
written in reverse chronological order. It is
possible to post text as well as embed other
content, such as images or videos or tweets from
your Twitter account. Those reading a blog can
often use the comments feature to interact with
the blog writer, or blogger, and other people
(though some blogs have comments disabled).
13. Also known as a web feed or news feed, an RSS
feed is web content encoded in an xml format. It
enables you to keep up to date with changes to
regularly accessed web resources by delivering
this information directly to your feed reader
(also known as an aggregator). Feed readers can
be browser based, web based or desktop based.
26. Information communication to a wide audience
Improve your writing
Think about communicating to non-specialists and/or
members of the public
Easy to set up
Connect other social media accounts
Build your online presence/profile
28. Legal / ethical issues
Embed links rather than content
Hosting
Licensing info about original content
License blog with appropriateCC license
Confidentiality
Complaints procedure
…use your common sense!
29. Activity – Workshop blog
1. Log in to the workshop blog
www.imperiallibrarylab.co.uk/wordpressresearch/wp-login.php
- your username and password were emailed to you this
morning
2.Write your first blog post – can be impressions so far or try
the ‘flash blogging exercise’ or do both
3. Or set up your ownWordPress.com blog and write your first
post
30. “an online social networking service and microblogging service
that enables users to send and read “tweets”, which are text-
based messages limited to 140 characters.”
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter [accessed online 1 December 2013]
35. Twitter and Privacy
Privacy policy
Account settings
Location information – off by default
https://support.twitter.com/forums/26810/entries/78525#
Can delete tweets but not edit them
May still be found inTwitter Search for a while
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44. Twitter apps and tools
Twitter for smart phones, tablets and desktop
computers
46. A wiki is a website that anyone can add content to. It can
be open to all or closed so that only invited members of a
community can use it. Pages can be quickly and easily
edited and created in a web browser.Those contributing to
a wiki can discuss and comment upon each other’s work.
Enables collaboration
Web-based
Reduce email
Keep track of research
47. Using wikis in research
Electronic lab notebooks
OpenWet Ware
Disseminate data
isee – dissemination of structural biology data
To support teaching
Chemistry@www.ch.imperial.ac.uk
For presentations
Wikipedia and the Molecular Sciences
50. Social bookmarking and your research
Web-based version of browser bookmarks – access
wherever you are
Share with other researchers
Export and import links
Discover new information and research using tags to
browse other peoples bookmarks
Organise, and search your bookmarks using tags
Delicious, Pinboard
53. Social reference management and your
research
Discover new information and research
Access your references wherever you are
Organise, and search your references/bookmarks using tags
Share your references with others in your research area
Identify other potentially useful references
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, Colwiz, readcube
58. Evaluation tools
Many tools available – measuring qualitative or quantitative
data or a combination of both
Can be free, paid for or a combination of both
Altmetrics – article level metrics – focus on the impact of a
specific article
There are also tools connecting social media accounts and give
you a score to measure your influence
No tool is perfect nor should not be used in isolation
Things to think about
What do I want to measure?
Why am I measuring?
Which tools am I using?
How and what is the tool / service measuring?
59. College guidelines / advice
Social media guidelines
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/webguide/socialmedia
Social networking sites and personal internet presence
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/hr/procedures/socialnet
Use of collaborative internet environments
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/secretariat/collegegovernanc
e/provisions/policies/infosystems/codes/cop16
Web based collaboration guidelines
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/WEBGUIDE/technologyservices/c
ollaboration/webbasedcollaborationguidelinessupplement
60. Image attributions
Tag cloud from http://www.tagxedo.com/
Anne Helmand http://www.flickr.com/photos/7849372@N04/3582297307/ under CC
BY-NC-SA
Tom Phillips inputs and outputs from: http://blog.tomwphillips.co.uk/2013/02/tools-
and-technologies-for-researchers/
Blogs, Read blogs, RSS,Write blogs,Why, Case Studies, OtherTools images generated
by: http://metaatem.net/words/blogs
Blogging platforms image from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67499195@N00/3273832615 reused under CC BY-NC 2.0
Content from Stephen Curry (Science blogging workshop)
http://sciencebloggingworkshop.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/stephencurrybloggingw
orkshop-jul12-v2.pdf
Copyright image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/10361931@N06/4839454263/
reused under CC-BY
The role ofTwitter in science publication and communication from :
http://www.katiephd.com/twitter-and-science-publications/
Prevalence ofTwitter and use amongst scholars
http://figshare.com/articles/Prevalence_and_use_of_Twitter_among_scholars/104629
Why useTwitter? And Perceptions on why you might not useTwitter from: :
http://prezi.com/f9ivxz4pkloj/twitter-for-researchers/
Notas do Editor
Mention of all images and re-use rights??Programme blog – tool information, links to useful sites/resources, activities for different areasRegularly updated
How we split the toolsReason for ‘optional content’A number of tools fit into more than one categoryLinks between the categoriesSite also has loads of useful linksWhen we do related workshops e.g. introduction to wikipedia, twitter for researchers – we add links to presentationsHow you communicate online – build your profile / online identity – blogs and networks and networking (though some social reference management tools also have this networking element)Managing your research information then online collaborative tools, RSS, social bookmarking and reference management or wikis might be more relevantKeeping up to date – RSS and networks and networking (and social bookmarking and reference management).
Many different tools and technologiesNot here to give you right / wrong answersGive you an overview of the technology – how you can use it; research related applicationsAlso some examples of how you can /people integrate their profile/identityIntegration – across platform, apps, APIs enable services to talk to each otherAcademic pagePinboardTwitterORCIDEmail subscription
Tom has split his use of various tools into inputs and outputsInputs - demoRSS, Feedbin - https://feedbin.me/Web of Knowledge Email alertsTweetbot – for Twitter
OutputsGoogle DriveWritelatex https://www.writelatex.com/Confluence (group wiki) – College instanceGithub (code) - https://github.com/After this – demo
What is a blog?
Blog postBlog pagesMention categories briefly hereTag?CommentTrackbacksBlog post: Displays in reverse chronological order on the blog home page. Can be listed in various widgets and you can control how many posts display at a time. Can assign categories and tags to posts.Blog page: Is a static page. You cannot assign categories or tags to them and they are not listed in date order (though you can control the order in which they display).Categories: terms assigned to a blog post to enable you to group your blog posts into general related areas. It makes sense to limit the number of categories you use.Tags: very specific term used to describe content in your blog post. You can use as many as you like.Comments: Enable people to comment on your blog post and build a discussion. See manage comments for further information.Trackbacks: a way of acknowledging other blogs, a bit like referencing a journal article. Allow you to notify other blogging systems that you have linked to them. See the WordPress.com trackbacks page for instructions. If you link to a WordPress blog, then this notification happens automatically via a pingback.
Mention RSS
The Guardian's science blog network hosts talented writers who are experts in their fields, from mathematics, particle physics and astronomy to neuroscience, science policy and psychology. By giving them the freedom to write on whatever subjects they choose – without editorial interference – they broaden and deepen our coverage of scientific research and debateFrom: http://www.theguardian.com/science/series/science-blog-networkAlso has HE network of blogs
PLOS BlogsOfficial PLOS blog – produced/edited/maintained by PLOS staff – new projects, site functionality, OAJournal blogs – produced/edited/maintained by PLOS journal staff – contributions by affiliated authors, academic reviewers and advisorsIndependent blog network – content produced, edited and/or maintained by authors who are not PLOS employees or independent contractors
Nature Publishing Group editors, staff and occasional guest bloggers
http://www.ft.com/comment/blogsFT blogsWorld affairs and politicsEconomics and commentMarkets, finances and business
Monitor updates on blogs(e.g. either existing natively within the browser as in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or as a browser extension as in Chrome or Safari ), web based (e.g. Feedly, Netvibes,The Old Reader) or desktop based (e.g. RSS Reader, FeedReader).
Give news website examples e.g. Guardian, BBC, then a database such as Web of Science or Science Direct10 minutes for this?About 20
An Imperial hosted blog?Web based in the cloud service such as WordPress.com?Locally hosted (either by Imperial or on your own server) What do I want to do with my blog?Do I need functionality such as the ability to typeset LaTeX?What kind of files do I want to upload?Do I want to link in other social media services such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn?What is the archival policy of the blogging software I am using? Do I need to back up data?Do I want to be able to ‘take my blog with me’ if I leave the institutionIt’s fairly straight forward to migrate content if you change platforms…
Wordpress.com Hosting platformSpam filtering/backups/upgrading of software, security and stats all done for youChoose different themes to change appearance (theme determines functionality)Cannot upload custom themePremium upgrade optionsQuick and easy
Download open source softwareNeed web hosting spaceResponsible for backups, security and maintenance (though lots of good web hosting companies do this for you)Use themes and plugins to build functionality into your websiteCreate your own theme or edit othersSingle site vs multisiteAdd hosted example (note Jon’s blog on hosted wordpress)
College hosted / branded WordPress
New bloggers welcome – submit blog ideas to info@scilogs.comInternational - .fr, .be, .es, .deCommunity guidelines – public forum, cite sources, focus on science and research, complete your profile, no libel/abuse
http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/Reciprocal SpaceIndividual bloggersHave a ‘guest’ blog where they have guest contributors as well as a place to trial before starting your own blogProf Stephen Curry blogs at Occam’s Typewriter (as well as the Guardian at Occam’s corner)
Blogger
Science blogging workshop – run in 2011 and 2012http://sciencebloggingworkshop.wordpress.com/
Embed links rather than contentDo you want your content hosted by Imperial or by a third party hostCheck any licensing information about the original content (be it research paper, video, blog post or other format)License your blog content with an appropriate Creative Commons licenseBe careful of confidentiality – do you have the right to post particular dataDevelop (and display) a procedure for dealing with complaints.And finally…use your common sense!Image from:
In Science
Might need to pull out some of this??1 in 40 scholars active on Twitterhttp://figshare.com/articles/Prevalence_and_use_of_Twitter_among_scholars/104629OverviewTerminologyTwitter for researchCase studiesFinding your voice?Getting started with twitter?Set up an account etc. – give them instructions?Native interface vs dashboard vs other apps
Put in self attributionTwitter for researchCase studiesFinding your voice?Getting started with twitter?Set up an account etc. – give them instructions?Native interface vs dashboard vs other apps
Put in self attribution
Live demo of this – easier to see?
Twitter profile – links to his bloghttps://twitter.com/tomwphillipshttp://blog.tomwphillips.co.uk/http://pinboard.in/u:tomwphillips
TweetDeck, TweetBot, Twitterifficand more!Hootsuite: manage your social media accountsInstructions on setting up a hootDemo my hootsuite accountShow them storify example from SpotOn – live demo as won’t fit on slidehttp://www.nature.com/spoton/2012/11/spoton-london-2012-storify-collaborating-and-building-your-online-presence-educating-scientists-and-science-students/
More useful info / linkshttp://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/
Easy way to collaborate with colleagues outside your institutionWeb based, so the information is available anywhere, any timeCuts down on the volume of email exchangedCan be used to keep track of your own research too – think of a wiki as a virtual whiteboard
Demo imperial college library accounthttps://delicious.com/imperiallibrary S0c1A!B00kmark
Tagging idea – add keywords to describe the link – enables you to find it laterOne off feeHave full control over your data – can export it any timeCan make bookmarks private (can make this default)Can add tags and then identify other accounts that have tagged the same itemThanks to API works with other servicers such as Reeder (?app)Find new links via popular links, newest links, global tag shows all links for a specific tagCan subscribe to other usersCan import and export to and from other services
Need to sort this slide out
Remote connect to my desktop to demonstrate Mendeley and Zotero