essential social media for historians and history projects

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Essential Social Mediafor Historians and History Projects

Terese Birdtmb10@le.ac.ukLearning Technologist and SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning Innovation

#HistorySocial Workshop 19 September, 2013

Photo by x Daniel Rehm, Flickr

What shall we talk about?• Exemplar:

Manufacturing Pasts

• Research project tasks overview

• Social media overview for tasks

• Referencing and Wikipedia

Photo by Superamit on Flickr

http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts

How we did Manufacturing Pasts

The academic research cycle

Social media: A guide for researchers (2011), p15

Historical research tasksON THE INTERNET

• Community• Digital materials• Discover• Disseminate

Sengaw.wordpress.com

What tools to do these tasks?

• Knowledge creation – offline research, blogging

• Discussing – Twitter, Facebook, Google+

• Curating – Scoop.it, Pinterest, Flickr

• Presenting – Prezi, Slideshare

• ‘Advertising’ – all of the above

Private / Professional / Collective Uses

Academic Digital Profile: Cristina Costa on Flickr

Twitter – personal or collective account

Twitter• Follow experts

• Ask a question, get answers from experts

• Get ideas

• Hottest news (use the search)

• ‘Faster’ than email

• Announcements

• ‘New post’ tweets

• Include the world

• Attend conference virtually

Top tip: when tweeting in a collective, add ^TB (your own initials) at the end of your tweetif you can

Twitter – filtering by creating lists1) Click ‘Me’, then select Lists under the gear

2) Click ‘Create list’, give it a name & description

3) Click ‘Following’, select someone, click and pull down to select ‘Add or remove from lists.’

Blogs – Wordpress –personal or collective

Flickr

Facebook - Page

Facebook – Group

Wikipedia – no promotion allowed

YouTube

Vimeo – longer than 10 minutes

Slideshare

Academia.edu

SoundCloud & AudioBoo

Kwiksurveys & SurveyMonkey

Feeling overwhelmed? Try one new thing

“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone

who isn’t trying.”

-- Tony Robbins

Thank you!

• Cann, A. J., Dimitriou, K., & Hooley, T. (2011). Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network. Retrieved from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

I’m happy to help: tmb10@le.ac.uk