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Scientists harness Social Media for their research!

The Story

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Scientific Content 1.0

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Tools

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Collaboration & Interaction

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2collabPower research productivity through collaboration

Discovernew sources, people, groups, discussions

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Connectidentify new collaboration opportunities, specialists

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Shareprivately with your research group, or with everyone

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Current use of social applications

Faculty of tomorrow (people currently aged 25-44, published 1-10 articles) are already embracing social applications to aggregate and share scientific and technical information

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Noise reduction!

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Privacy - Security - Trust

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It’s all about people and it’s about me

- Connect with users that share same interests, who participate in exciting discussions, who published or bookmarkedrelevant articles for your research

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2collab – profile your research

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It’s all about relevanceWhat resources are others sharing in your research field

What words are they using to describe those resources

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research productivity …share- Install the browser buttonand with one click capture all article metadata

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And what are they sharing and discussing?

research productivity …discoverWhat other groups are researching my field?

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research productivity …share3 types of groups:

Open public group -visible and open to join for everyone

Closed public group– visible and permission based joining

Private group - only visible to invited members

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Power research productivity through collaboration Advance research via experts

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• Increase visibility/ discoverability of own published papers, express and discuss current interests

• Connect readers with authors and vice versa

• A gateway to who’s citing me and my papers

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Research 2.0 into the future

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Web 2.0 after the buzz

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Impact in the next 5 years?

In 5 years, over 50% of respondents see social applications playing a key role in shaping nearly all aspects of research workflow

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The way up!

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Questions?

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Fabian KerstenLondon Online - Web 2.0 After the BuzzDecember 2008