Using Web 2.0 for research: building an online academic identity

Dr Lorraine Warren, SouthamptonResearch workshop, Aberdeen Business

School, RGU, July 2009[acknowledgements to Lisa Harris, Southampton;

Kelly Smith, Huddersfield; Charlotte Carey, BCU; Jas Dhaliwal, Microsoft]

Web 2.0

Social media Blogs, wikis, twitter, facebook,

flickr, slideshare, youtube, ning Sites such as Digg, Delicious Music sites such as blip.fm, spotify

How to set in academic context

Is it...?

Overview: Building an academic identity Rapidly build high value networks Build up a community of interest

around your work Quickly identify and share breaking

news, new resources, current issues Benefit from new forms of publishing

AT NO COST Making your work work for you NOW

For a researcher... Highlighting material useful to colleagues Seeking collaborators Sourcing co-authors Networking with colleagues prior to conferences Feeds from colleagues at conferences that I cannot

attend Research discussions Meeting new contacts Follow calls for funds (JISC) Ask questions to quickly gauge opinion (crowdsourcing) Follow sources such as Times Higher in real time, key

journalists in my area [eg Jack Schofield/Guardian] Post links to Digg and Delicious sites Put out calls for papers outwith your sphere of influence

What is your style? Passives

Use what is there, use email, access information, maybe register accounts on FB, watch youtube, maybe use in presentations, text on mobile, largely individualised activity

Creators Use and create what is there, create video, sound,

upload, keep a blog, update, use FB for social events, use smart phone, access, join and participate in existing networks

Disruptor Create new networks, develop activities based on

real-time events and breaking news, main space of professional identity is online, rigorously maintained, download apps onto smartphone and extend

For me...

It’s where my future contacts and networks lie, and increasingly where I’ll be influencing thinking [velocity]

Also managing interface between work and play

Some examples

http://www.liberatemedia.com/blog/tim-greenhalgh/

http://www.lisaharrismarketing.com/

Next: Twitter demo www.twitter.com [www.itweet.net]

Follow up

doclorraine http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/

stories/2009/07/web2practice.aspx