Increase your research competitiveness using Web 2.0 tools

Increase your research competitiveness using Web 2.0 tools

60th ICREA Colloquium 11 March 2014

Xavier Lasauca i Cisa@xavierlasauca

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#Create#Comunicate#ConnectShare!

#Create

Science Blogging as a New Form of Engaging with Science http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcclaveria

Motive A: Visibility Motive B: Networking Motive C: Informationincrease own impact connect with peers be up to datebe found by peers and other stakeholders

stay in touch with colleagues

be part of a conversation

present self/own work be(come) part of a community anticipate trends

Source: (Micro)blogging Science? Notes on Potentials and Constraints of New Forms of Scholarly Communication, by Cornelius Puschmann

Example motives of science bloggers

http://sociologicalimagination.org/archives/13910

It increases your visibility within academia.

It increases your visibility outside academia.

It increases your visibility more than a static site.

It’s a great way of making connections.

It makes it easier for people to find your published work.

It’s a great way to promote events and call for papers.

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http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/

The purpose of keeping the blog is to give me a semi-public place to describe the ongoing process of doing and thinking about my lab’s research. I hope I’ll use itto describe/explain (mainly to myself) the scientific issues I'm thinking about:

- what experiments we’ve done

- what the results were if they worked (or possible explanations for why they didn’t work)

- what experiments I think we might do or should do when time and resources permit.

http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated-bacteria-nasas.html

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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/02/24/five-minutes-patrick-dunleavy-chris-gilson/

Sure-fire tips for academic bloggers working to improve their craft

1) Remember the Web is a network, not a single-track railway line – and not everyone

uses the web in the same way. So once you have a blog post, do everything you can to get the key content out to diverse readerships who want to see it. Post your links to Twitter (several times,

at different times of the day) and Facebook. Let people subscribe by RSS or email.

2) Talk to your readers. Encourage people to comment (but only

post their comments after moderation) and respond to comments and to Tweets. Talk to people on Twitter and Facebook when they discuss your work. And be reciprocal, open-minded and fair in sharing your content with others and linking to their work – improving the public understanding of social science is a huge collective good for all social scientists. We can all flourish together in the new paradigm for academic work.

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http://feedly.com

#Comunicate

The uses of Twitter for Science

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/04/19/blog-tweeting-papers-worth-it/

http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/IEE/article/view/4625/4830

• Connect• Develop ideas• Disseminate

The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication

• Start: to generate new ideas

• Manuscript: pre-review of works in progress.

• Published: communicate research to a broad audience that can amplify the scientific and social impact of publications.

• Major funding boards are starting to value the social media impact of the research values.

theconversation.com (nicolasjon)

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Reason #1: Twitter has very direct, and very relevant implications for those in Public Health

Reason #2: It’s a great way to get information you otherwise wouldn’t

Reason #3: At conferences, Twitter is invaluable for stimulating discussion and finding out what is happening in other sessions

Reason #4: For lecturers, Twitter can contribute to discussions and deepen understanding

Reason #5: The way we translate information is changing

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The Importance of Being Hashtag

Example of hashtag (#genomics)

Using hashtags in conferences (#EPSHEP)

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Twitter chats

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I am a researcher and I am on Twitter… Now what?

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/

http://www.lwec.org.uk/sites/default/files/TwitterTips.pdf

7 top twitter tips for academics

1 Tweet yourself, your projects and your institution

2 Don’t just wait for people to find you: actively

promote your twitter stream

3 Work on your signal-noise ratio

4 Get your timing right

5 Use Twitter as part of a wider social media and

communications strategy

6 Constantly refine your practice

7 Remember it’s all about relationships

#Connect

• Linkedin• Google +• Facebook

• Researchgate• Academia.edu

General networks Specific networks

Share!

Articles and presentations (Slideshare, issuu)

Social bookmarking (Delicious, Diigo)

Images (flickr, Instagram) and videos (YouTube)

Bibliographic data management (Zotero, Mendeley)

Slideshare

http://www.slideshare.net/xavierlasauca

Strategy• Define objectives about online presence (as individual researcher or research group)

• Explore the tools and choose the most appropriate

• Develop your network

• Encourage feedback and discussion

ICREA researcher

Blog

Twitter

Slideshare

Personal brand

+Visibility+Impact+Reach+Online reputation+Prestige+Influence

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Government 2.0

Secretariat for Universities and Research in social media

Secretariat for Universities and Research(Ministry of Economy and Knowledge)@coneixementcat

Directorate General for Research@recercat

Directorate General for Universities@universitatscat

@recercat on Twitter & Facebook

https://twitter.com/recercat

https://www.facebook.com/recercat

Portada recercat

RECERCAT

http://www.gencat.cat/economia/ur/serveis/recercat/index.html

Social media: Why? • To disseminate our publications (RECERCAT)

• To publish announcements of scholarships and research grants

• To disseminate news/updates on the Secretariat institutional website

• For press releases

• For live broadcast of events

• To disseminate events, awards, scholarships, publications and other information related to the agents of Catalan science and technology system

Conclusions

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Xavier Lasauca i CisaDirectorate General for Research

Ministry of Economy and KnowledgeGeneralitat de Catalunya

www.xavierlasauca.cat@xavierlasauca