microblogging @ #dr10
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The Digital Researcher: Managing your networks and building your profile15 March 2010http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/56271-205821/Workshops/Digital-researcher-Managing-your-networks-and-building-your-profile.htmlTRANSCRIPT
MicrobloggingMicroblogging
Alan Cann
School of Biological SciencesUniversity of Leicester
http://bit.ly/AJCann
What is Twitter?What is Twitter?
ConversationConversation
BroadcastBroadcast
Realtime MediumRealtime Medium
Not just TwitterNot just Twitter
Friendfeed
Cliqset
Yammer
more every day
So which one(s) should you use?
Twitter is a personal research networkTwitter is a personal research network
Twitter is a personal research networkTwitter is a personal research network
The Power/Wisdom of CrowdsThe Power/Wisdom of Crowds
Taxonomy versus folksonomyTaxonomy versus folksonomy
Taxonomies imply "knowledge in a box”.
Like Schrödinger's cat, knowledge has multiple states:
Experiments
Books
Journals
Blogs
and lots more…
Reliability?
Backchannel - social amplificationBackchannel - social amplification
Hashtags: #DR10 (= #dr10)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cartoon_mommy_where_do_hashtags_come_from.php
Twitter isn't new - it's a supplement to what you should already be doing.
Reading, watching and talking to people.