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Reference search in a social way

Reference search in a social way

——Social Network searching engines

By Wenxia Kang

Social Network & Web2.0 tools

Features Creating together Form online communities based on

common interests Make connections automatically

through tags

We are not alone. We can turn to more people from different parts of the world for help or communication.

Social Network & Web2.0 tools

Social Network searching tools

More resources Update in time Search through Tags or people

Wikipedia Diigo Slideshare …

Wikipedia

Web-based, free-content encyclopedia the largest and most popular general

reference work on the Internet. written collaboratively by volunteers

around the world The Newest information and updated

every minute and second cover almost all topics of

human knowledge

Wikipedia

provide links to guide users to

related pages with additional

information low cost, open content to anyone

and easy to get access Put keywords here:

Homepage: http://en.wikipedia.org

More Wiki resources

1. http://www.scholarpedia.org/ esp for Physics

2. http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia

Slideshare for PPT

Homepage: http://www.slideshare.net

Slideshare

Social Media Content Sharing Site

Ability for you to share your

presentations with others

People can embed your presentations on

their sites

Create and get Slidecasts (slides

combined with Podcast.)

Upload PowerPoint, OpenOffice, PDF

Homepage: http://www.slideshare.net

Slideshare——Group Functions

Friending

Favoriting

Events

Can find and contact others with similar interests

Slideshare

Advantages:

learn from others’ presentations

find writers, find employees,

find people for teleseminars, etc.

free to get valuable and direct

introduction materials

Slideshare

You can browse the content by category

and go into your field.

Or search the keywords here

Diigo Social bookmarking

Favorite your interested website

Home Page: http://www.diigo.com

Add your interested website here

Diigo– Social Bookmarking

Its full name is “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”.

a Social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages

a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community

be listed as one of the top 10 research tools by CNET (Computer Network) in 2006

Diigo

Accumulate your research topic or interested subjects

Find and connect with people having common interests

Diigo

a social way of searching Find the most popular bookmarks on

any subject

Subscribe to the most recent

bookmarks by tags, sites, or users

Get recommended content

Get related content while browsing

Diigo ——You can search

based on Tag or key words

from “my bookmark” list

Or from the whole diigo

people with common interests based

Or accumulate the group of people

while surfing Internet

Tips for reference searching

Get a common sense of your interested research topic through Wikipedia first, then go further…

Each slide of presentation contains several-years wisdom of the author. So try to use the www.slideshare.net to get the most elite sectors or your interested topic and different views from different presenters. Then go further.

Use Diigo to: Accumulate your research topics or

interested subjects by Diigo and search resources of a specific topic when needed

Enlarge the group of people with common interests and search them and their accumulated resources when needed

Tips for reference searching

To form an effective and efficient social way of searching reference

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