Presentations from Friday’s opening workshop
Here are links to the presentations from Friday’s workshop Blogs, Twitter, wikis and other web-based tools and technologies: opening workshop, 1st February 2013 (Ruth Harrison, Team Leader: Education...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 for Researchers: Storify
Storify is a web application that allows you to curate tweets and social media posts around a topic to make a narrative, or illustrate a conversation. We’ve made a Storify post out of the tweets sent...
View ArticleGoogle Drive
I’ve used Google Drive before, but mostly to share things between my computers, not really to interact with other people. I found a chance to use it for work this week when specifying how to build a...
View ArticleTwitter for Researchers: presentation and summary
The Imperial College Library ‘Twitter for Researchers ‘ workshop took place last Friday – you can view the presentation from it below: You can also see what the workshop participants got up to in this...
View ArticleFigshare to share your figures, tables and other data
I’ve been trying Figshare and I find it really useful. After months or even years e-mailing important images to my supervisors or colleagues that then were lost or very difficult to retrieve, I have...
View ArticleArticle 3
Because many times I have encountered that long instructions or demos for the usage of a piece of software put off users from starting using it, I’d like to go through an example of my usage of...
View ArticleAcademia and Research Gate
For the second optional module, I tried out academia and research gate. I’ve got to say, that I don’t see the point. As a repository of papers, it works much more poorly than the arxiv or even just...
View ArticleCourse Progress
I really enjoyed the starter session we had – gosh was it really a month ago now?! – and I felt fired up to go out the and be all web two-point-oh. However, as Jenny said (rightly it turns out), we’d...
View ArticleProgress
As predicted, developing my online presence dropped down on the to do list as deadlines approached. As a result I probably have not benefited as much as I could have, however, I do plan to return to...
View ArticleFirst blog
Funny that i’m sat in the University library and being asked to type my first blog post. An alien task since when i was at school blogs, twitter, wikipaedia and social media on the whole didn’t exist....
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