Used for session with new research students March 2012

1. Networking
Broadcasting the seed
and reaping the crop

2. Topics
 What do we mean by Networking?
 Does identity matter?
 What is happening out there now?
 How do we Network effectively?
 Specialist blogs, sites and Mail lists

3. Networking?
The idea The action
 Talking to others  Twitter
 Sharing ideas  Blogging
 Collaborating  Google Docs
 Supporting  Webinars

4. Changing
how we Network: online
 From paper to digital
 From Linear to Diffuse
 From Formal to Informal
 From Circumspect to Daring Exploration
 From Secrecy to Openness

5. Identity
 The concept of identity
 Your identity
 Creating your identity
 What are your Colleagues doing
online?

6. Current behaviours
 If you build it, will they come? How
researchers perceive and use web 2.0
RIN Report 2010
 Social Networking RIN website
 Social Media: A guide for researchers
RIN

7. Comment
’It almost offers you a half way house in that
you can be less formal, ..., you can talk
about your research findings … out there in
the public space and people can comment or
interact ...’
 Research Information Network. If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use Web 2.0. London,
2010. p. 28

8. Effective Networking
 Join a range of social networks to provide
interaction at different levels
 Lurk for a while to discover the ambience of
the site
 Join in (comment) when you feel you have
something to say.
 Be generous
 Do NOT read everything

9. Examples 1
 Cloudworks – Virtual Worlds -
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2059
 Academia.edu – Tim -
http://worc.academia.edu/timjohnson/About
 Combinations – examples
 VWWM– mail list, web site, SL, f2f
 Presence – ejournal, web site, f2f
 Hyptertope http://www.hypertope.com/
 Digital Literacy blog
http://digitalliteracyuow.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/
getting-organised/

10. Examples 2
 Delicious
http://www.pearltrees.com/
http://pinboard.in/
http://www.diigo.com
 Blogs – Dave White -
http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2010/0
5/17/does-the-technology-matter/#comments
 Twitter – (Tweetdeck)
 Facebook – Maria Nikolajeva