23 Things for a Digital Professional

An excellent training course which was run by the University of Warwick library in late 2011:

  1. Publishing on the web for postgraduate researchers
  2. Creating a blog and writing your first post
  3. Single author vs. multi author blogs
  4. Journal, search and citation alert subscriptions
  5. Podcasts, videocasts and iTunes U: subscribing to multi-media content
  6. Managing online identity
  7. Joining academia.edu
  8. Creating or updating your ePortfolio
  9. Networking online for researchers
  10. Register for Twitter and find researchers to follow
  11. Engage with your network on Twitter
  12. Explore research specific networks on Twitter
  13. Use Lanyrd to network at conferences
  14. Open Access: changes in publishing practices
  15. Open Access Repositories and WRAP
  16. Copyright, Creative Commons and You
  17. The Research Data Challenge
  18. Getting organised using digital tools
  19. Bookmarking with Delicious
  20. Explore social reference management site Mendeley
  21. Arrange a meeting using Doodle
  22. Collaborative working
  23. Create and share a document using GoogleDocs
  24. Share a document using Dropbox
  25. Join the Wikipedia Community
  26. Creating and sharing multimedia
  27. Creating a Prezi presentation
  28. Finding and sharing YouTube video