2013 Connected Researcher 3 Disseminate and Communicate
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Disseminate and Communicateblogging and microblogging
The Connected Researcher:Networking and Collaborating with Social Media
What is blogging?
LeFever, Lee. 2008. Blogs in plain English [Online]. Available at: http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs [Accessed: 12 February 2013].
Types of blog
adapted from Wikipedia. 2011. Blog [Online]. Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog [Accessed 12 February 2013].
personal
organisational
genremedia
reflection; communication; archiving
informational; marketing
politics; travel; educationlinks; videos, photos
How to blog
go to wordpress.com
username:
password:
connectedresearcher.wordpress.com
Why blog?
MacLeod, Hugh. 2011. I have nothing to say [Online]. Available at: http://gapingvoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/zzzzzz7654191a.jpeg
[Accessed: 16 February 2012].
Why blog?
use as a notebook 1
record thoughts on events 2
alternative focus (with a writing element)
crowdsource
knowledge transfer
links to articles
collect feedback
generate discussion
collaborate
enhance reputation
outreach
reduce feelings of isolation
increase sense of belonging
blog as online ‘base camp’
direct people to blog to save producing documents 2
momentum to explore other technologies
explores the process of research work
critical appraisal
follow events
reflect share network collate learn
1. Richer, Suzi. 2009. Blogging your way to completion… [Online]. Available at: http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1271-194421/Blogging-your-way-to-completion.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].2. Weller, M. 2007. The ed technie: is blogging a good use of time? [Online]. Available at: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/04/is_blogging_a_g.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].
Discovering blogs
commenting and trackbacksblogrolls
Searching blogs
Which blogging platform?
Which blogging platform?
Which blogging platform?
Blogging well
know WHY you’re bloggingknow your constraintsknow your audienceengage and connectblog regularly
Avoiding blogging pitfalls
respect plagiarism and copyrightdo not tolerate abusedevelop your writing style
think like a journalist, not an academic eliminate redundancy use links
create a Facebook page and a Twitter profile to promote your blog
buy your own domain name
exploit blogrolls and trackbacks and repost others’ posts
post frequently and search engines are more likely to find you
use clear naming conventions in posts
specialise to gain recognition
Promoting your blog
What is microblogging?
exchanging small elements of content, whether words, images or videos..
conversation...
people write short messages
people read the messages
people reply to the messages
blog compactly and socially
share text, quotes, links, images, videos and audio
Why tweet?
Why tweet?
Academic tweeting
Guess that hashtag!
#yolo
#fb#TwitJC
#DR12Vitae
#PhDChat
#CR13
#solo12
#ff
#Acwri
Tweeting professionally
Do you consciously separate personal and professional use of social media?
Searching Twitter
Tracking tweets
Tracking tweets
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