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Social or personal – where to draw the line?
We are accustomed to being so ‘connected’ these days that it is refreshing to take the bus to the station in the morning and to realise that there are people who don’t give two hoots for ‘social media’. I make … Continue reading
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Social Media: A guide for researchers
A good guide for researchers looking to get into Social Media: Cann, A., K. Dimitriou, and T. Hooley, Social Media: A guide for researchers, 2011, Research Information Network, UK. Available for free download at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers Along with lots of links … Continue reading
Digital Researcher – Go Digital 2012!
Vitae in partnership with The British Library are running Digital Researcher 2012: an innovative, thought-provoking one day event to help researchers make the most of new technologies and social media tools in their research. You can listen to what happened … Continue reading
Academic and Digital Literacies and Writing in the Disciplines
There is a new journal of Academic Writing it is open access and peer reviewed so readers can access the materials and have confidence in the fact that materials are reviewed. The first paper caught my attention as it mentioned … Continue reading
A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities
The London School of Economics and Political Science’ s e Impact of Social Sciences Project have just produced a Twitter Guide for Academics: Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities It’s available under a Creative Commons license. Quoting … Continue reading
Digital Humanities at Reading
The grouping Digital Humanities at Reading are a group of people who are working in areas where humanities and computing meet. People in this group have different sets of skills they need to be Digitally Ready to many others round … Continue reading
Digital Communities
We are trying to identify different Digital Communities around the University of Reading (look for our blog category Digital Community). If you know of a community here at University of Reading that has some interest in things digital let us … Continue reading
Mobile resources
A couple of mobile sites that are handy for University of Reading people: The library has gone mobile friendly. Read all about it on their website or visit their mobile friendly site. UniApp is an app made by Reading students for Reading … Continue reading
Digital Heroes?
It was suggested today that as part of the Digitally Ready project we should have an occasional series on University of Reading people who are using digital technologies in interesting ways. This will allow us to share best practice. So … Continue reading
Digitally Connected Colleges
There is an interesting article on Mashable entitled “How Digitally Connected Are the U.S. News Top 20 Colleges?”. They have taken a list of top colleges produced in the normal ranking manner (costs, class size, retention etc) and given their … Continue reading