Talk given @SciVE_Glasgow

1. Social Media
@rdmpage
@SciVE_Glasgow

3. Google Plus
LinkedIn
Facebook
Blogging
Twitter

4. Facebook

7. Blogging

8. @cboettig
http://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html

9. http://iphylo.blogspot.com

10. Blogs can lead to conversations

11. Twitter

12. Some serious people & organisations
are on Twitter
@NERCscience (research council)
@figshare (share research results)
@spotonLondon (formerly Science Online London)
@carlzimmer (Science journalist)

13. Twitter conventions
• @ username
• RT “retweet”
• # hashtags
• #FF “follow Friday” #icanhazpdf

14. Uses for Twitter
• Conversation/eavesdropping
• Conference broadcasting (using hashtags)
• Attracting attention for a project/idea
• Asking for help

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisfreeland/3585077865/

17. Branding
(by default, if sometime starts talking about
“branding” I want to smack them)

18. Branding as
consistent identity
@rdmpage
http://www.linkedin.com/in/rdmpage
http://www.facebook.com/rdmpage
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/ (doh!)

19. klout.com/rdmpage
(nobody knows what the Klout score means…)

20. IMHO
• LinkedIn is your online CV
• Facebook is for “friends”
• Blogging is for recording ideas, thoughts,
opinions (and engaging in debate)
• Twitter is for conversation and discovery