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Alan Cann School of Biological Sciences University of Leicester Find me here: bit.ly/AJCann This talk: www.slideshare.net/AJCann More info: delicious | CiteUlike Social Media For Researchers Maximizing your personal impact

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A talk for the SGM Spring 2012 Conference in Dublinhttp://www.sgm.ac.uk/meetings/MTGPAGES/DU07.cfm

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Page 1: Social media for researchers - maximizing your personal impact

Alan Cann

School of Biological Sciences

University of Leicester

Find me here:   bit.ly/AJCannThis talk: www.slideshare.net/AJCann

More info: delicious | CiteUlike

Social Media For ResearchersMaximizing your personal impact

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What is Impact?• “the demonstrable contribution that

excellent research makes to society and the economy” (RCUK)

• What about personal impact?

• “Continual publishing across journals, blogs and social media maximises impact by increasing the size of the ‘academic footprint’ ” (LSE Impact blog)

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“It’s easy for you to say that”

But is top-down innovation possible?

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Social media for researchers

The “academic research cycle”

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There is no “right way” but:• Identification of knowledge• Creation of knowledge

– more effective collaboration– opportunities to forge new collaborations– drawing on expertise to help with research– receiving feedback as you go– raising the profile of your work more rapidly than conventional publishing

• Quality assurance of knowledge– competitive funding– ethical approval– academic line-management– peer scrutiny at conferences– peer review– publication– post-publication review, citation

• Dissemination of knowledge

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Clay Shirky (2010):

"Participants are different. To participate is to act as

if your presence matters, as if, when you see

something or hear something, your response is part

of the event."

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Criticisms of social media

• Growth of technology – technodeterminism?

• Privacy

• Banality

• Peripherality

• Loss of an authoritative perspective

• Work/life balance

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What could possibly go wrong?

• Opening the kimono?

• Ethics?

• Peer review?

• The media?

• And? Murphy’s Law?despair.com

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Making an Impact:Beyond Citations

The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice

“Recognising and rewarding digital scholarship is significant for two reasons:The first is the message it sends to individuals within the university…The second reason to recognise digital scholarship is to encourage institutional innovation.”

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AJC European Tour 2012

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It’s not about tools, it’s about creating the right network

Bad networks!

Good networks!

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Just do it.