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Using Social M edia in your studies

Using Social M edia in your studies. Gather, Store and Share…. “If I couldn’t use social media I would probably curl up in a hole and die and kiss my research career goodbye!” Anna Croft: Lecturer, Bangor University.

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Using Social M edia in your studies

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  1. Using Social Media in your studies Gather, Store and Share…

  2. “If I couldn’t use social media I would probably curl up in a hole and die and kiss my research career goodbye!”Anna Croft: Lecturer, Bangor University “Google Reader is a fantastic way to keep track of new papers that are appearing in many different journals, and to follow some of the interesting research blogs that are out there”Pat Heslop: Professor: University of Leicester “DropBox is the best thing since sliced bread!”Andy Priestner: Head Librarian, Judge Business School: Cambridge

  3. “Social Media makes me a better researcher because I find stuff out a lot quicker. I now have a network of individuals who I respect and am confident in their work”Terry Wassall: Lecturer, University of Leeds “The factors that discouraged me from using social media were time factors. There are too many tools to keep up with, and they are not always useful” Andrew Coverdale: PhD student, University of Nottingham

  4. Use RSS to subscribe to "feeds" in order to keep up with news from websites (including blogs). • You can also subscribe to content from specific academic journals, and even your own subject searches! • In order to subscribe to a feed, you need to use an RSS reader.  A popular choice is Google Reader

  5. To use Google Reader you’ll need a Google Account

  6. Most useful feature of RSS for Researchers is the ability to track the latest issues of journals : • You can do this direct from the journal’s own website • Use Zetoc which provides feeds directly from over 28,000 leading peer review publications Subscribing to feeds via Zetoc will allow you to link to the full-text of articles – Website feeds may not allow this. To get the best experience on your own computer, you should first install and run the University’s VPN software: http://www.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/vpn/

  7. Joint initiative between British Library and MIMAS (University of Manchester). • Allows you to track the latest articles from over 25,000 peer-reviewed publications. • Track top publications such as Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. • Allows you to connect directly to the full-text from Google Reader (Using the LibrayFind It Service).

  8. Amplify Clip, share & spark conversation about excerpts from articles, blog posts, tweets etc. Supports auto-posting to Twitter, Facebook, Wordpress, etc. Read it Later Save pages to read later with just one click. When you have time, access your reading list from any computer or phone, even without an internet connection! • To keep up-to-date with new applications subscribe to Business Research Plus and MBS’ new Ipad Blog: • http://bizlib247.wordpress.com/ • http://mbsipads.wordpress.com/

  9. Store… Using the cloud

  10. 2004 – 3 million blogs 2011 – 164 million blogs

  11. “Twitter is a valuable resource for academics. If you’re allowing inaccurate stereotypes to deter you, you’re missing out”

  12. Twitter Stats: • 500 million+ users (100 million last year!) • 12 new users every second! You can ignore 99.999% of users and ignore their tweets by concentrating on people or organisations that interest you! Twitter is increasingly populated by serious researchers and organisations – Some from MBS!

  13. Highlighting articles / useful information Re-tweet useful links to your followers Promote your own blog-posts Provoke debate (be careful though!)

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