Tag: academia 2.0
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“What on earth will I tweet about?”: feeling comfortable with social media as an academic
Curious about social media but unsure where to start? This hour long webinar will explore the issues faced by academics when using social media to communicate online: Being clear about what your goals are. Understanding the potential benefits for academics of using social media. Deciding which platforms and tools are right for you. Managing personal […]
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Why should academics embrace digital tools? @cemathieson talks about her experiences
A podcast recorded at a Digital Change GPP event earlier this year.
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Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact (part 2)
Part 2 of this post. I had to stop writing because the battery on my phone was dying. Though the fact that I can write part 1 of the post (on my phone in a coffee shop in Manchester while waiting for a train) and write part 2 of the post (from a desktop computer […]
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Continuous Publishing, Open Research and Impact
Some initial thoughts for a talk i’m doing tomorrow: – what goes into producing a chapter or a paper? Lots of ideas, conversations, extracts from texts, chunks of writing etc. some of these have a social existence, in so far as they emerge out of formal or informal academic conversations, however most are private and […]
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My notes on the digital scholar (chapter 1)
My summary notes of Martin Weller’s superb book The Digital Scholar, with my own reflections prompted by the book in brackets. The resources involved in scholarship are changing in the digital age. This is not a case of new replacing old, as books and journals are as influential as ever, rather it is a diversification of the […]
Mark Carrigan 