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Essential Social Mediafor Historians and History Projects
Terese [email protected] 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• 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
Facebook – Group
Slideshare
Academia.edu
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: [email protected]
