My presentation for the 2011 IRCSET meeting in conjunction with the Dublin Career Zoo. How researchers can use LinkedIn and Mendeley to expand their research.

1. Social Media and Online Research Tools Ted Vickey

2. How powerful is social networking? …it got this man elected President

4. I am by EDUCATION an Exercise Scientist, I am by EXPERIENCE an Entrepreneur, I am by PASSION a Connector.

5. It is not what you know, it is who you know and who they know

6. and Ireland = +470,000 members

7. Which is taller? 30,000 meters 764 meters 39 8,850 meters 3+

8. as Worldwide Professional Network 44 Million 56 Million

9. Perceived benefits of LinkedIn (Irish) Strongly Agree Strongly Disagree (Vickey, 2009)

11. Use in your signature

12. WhatisMendeley? Free academic software to manage, share, read, annotate and cite your research papers... ...and a research network to manage your papers online, discover research trends and statistics, and to connect to like-minded researchers.

15. http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ted-vickey/

16. Adding your papers

17. Usingthe Web Importer On the web page with the reference(s) you want to capture: click on the bookmarklet…

18. Manage your library Open attached PDF files in integrated viewer Documents can be marked read/unread Star your favorite papers Filter by authors, tags, publications or keywords

19. Search as you type

20. Full text search in Mendeley’s PDF viewer

21. Citing in Word & Open Office Click on “Insert Citation” in Word

22. Share references with Mendeley Groups

23. Ted VickeyNational University of Ireland - Galwayted.vickey@deri.org @tedvickey www.linkedin.com/in/tedvickey http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/ted-vickey www.socialfitphd.com

24. 1. Increase your brand

25. Use on your business card

26. 2. Enhance your Google rank

28. 3. Build your network

30. 4. Stay CONNECTED

33. LINK