Social networking
List of useful resources for researchers on the topic of social networking
- Academia.edu - displays academics around the world in a ‘tree’ format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with and aims to hep researchers keep track of the latest developments in their field
- A study on the effective Use of social software by further and higher education in the UK. Shailey Minocha for Open University (January 2009)
- Brainfly.com - academic social and bookmarking site for students
- Higher education in a Web 2.0 world. JISC (May 2009)
- Huddle - website for enabling collaborative research
- It’s like a permanent corridor conversation: an exploration of technology-enabled scholarly networking at The Open University. Open University (April 2009)
- LabSpaces.net - a social network for the scientific community designed to spread scientific news, maintain and create friendships, and harbor collaboration through the internet. The site serves as a web profile for researchers and labs, and is also a community for active communication in the sciences
- Marian Schembari - a career blog for recent grads that covers all things publishing, writing and job hunting
- Methodspace - site for research methods community
- Open Science Twitter List - on Listorius by Jonathan Eisen
- SIIA Brown Bag on Why Twitter Matters VIP LiveWire (24 April 2009)
- Social Network Tools (From AlertThingy to Zemanta). Ed Batista (27 March 2009)
- Strange attractor - blog with thoughts on social media, business and journalism
- Vine - Microsoft’s new social networking tool
- Zotero - a free Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work in the web browser itself
- WikiCFP - a wiki listing calls for papers