PowerPoint from session on 2011.04.05

1. Networking Broadcasting the seed and reaping the crop

2. Topics What do we mean by Networking? Does identity matter? What is happening out there now? How do we Network effectively? Specialist blogs, sites and Mail lists

3. Networking? Talking to others Sharing ideas Collaborating Supporting

4. Changing how we Network: online From paper to digital From Linear to Diffuse From Formal to Informal From Circumspect to Daring Exploration From Secrecy to Openness

5. Identity The concept of identity Your identity Creating your identity What are your Colleagues doing online?

6. Current behaviours If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0 RIN Report 2010 Social Networking RIN website Social Media: A guide for researchers RIN

7. Comment ’It almost offers you a half way house in that you can be less formal, ..., you can talk about your research findings … out there in the public space and people can comment or interact ...’ Research Information Network. If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use Web 2.0. London, 2010. p. 28

8. Effective Networking Join a range of social networks to provide interaction at different levels Lurk for a while to discover the ambience of the site Join in (comment) when you feel you have something to say. Do NOT read everything

9. Examples 1 Cloudworks – Virtual Worlds - http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2059 Academia.edu – Tim - http://worc.academia.edu/timjohnson/About Combinations – examples VWWM– mail list, web site, SL, f2f Presence – mail list, web site, f2f Academic Blog Portal http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Hyptertopehttp://www.hypertope.com/

10. Examples 2 Delicious - - No, we are not shutting down Delicious. http://www.pearltrees.com/ http://pinboard.in/ http://www.diigo.com Blogs – Dave White - http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2010/05/17/does-the-technology-matter/#comments Twitter – research (Tweetdeck) Facebook – Maria Nikolajeva