Social Media: A guide for researchers

Links and resources February 2011

Social bookmarking, news Social networking services and social citation tools Academia.edu - www.academia.edu Blogging and BibSonomy - www.bibsonomy.org - www.facebook.com tools CiteULike - www.citeulike.com Friendfeed - http://friendfeed.com delicious - www.delicious.com Graduate Junction - www.graduatejunction.net Blogger - www.blogger.com Digg - http://digg.com/news LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com LiveJournal - www.livejournal.com diigo - www.diigo.com MethodSpace - www.methodspace.com buzz - www.google.com/buzz Mendeley - www.mendeley.com MySpace - www.myspace.com Plurk - www.plurk.com Newsvine - www.newsvine.com Nature Network - http://network.nature.com - www.posterous.com Reddit - www.reddit.com ResearchGate - www.researchgate.net - www.tumblr.com Zotero - www.zotero.org - www.twitter.com Typepad - www.typepad.com Wordpress - www.wordpress.org Presentation sharing tools Virtual worlds - www.yammer.com Scribd - www.scribd.com Second Life - http://secondlife.com SlideShare - www.slideshare.net OpenSim - http://opensimulator.org Sliderocket - www.sliderocket.com Audio and Video tools World of Warcraft - http://eu.battle.net/wow Flickr - www.flickr.com Justin tv - www.justin.tv Examples of academic and research blogs Livestream - www.livestream.com Picasa - http://picasa.google.com Academic blog portal - http://www.academicblogs.org SmugMug - www.smugmug.com Adventures in Career Development - http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com Ustream - www.ustream.tv alunsalt.com - http://alunsalt.com Viddler - www.viddler.com Finds and Features - http://findsandfeatures.wordpress.com Vimeo - http://vimeo.com Fresh and Crispy - http://blog.cpjobling.org YouTube - www.youtube.com Love of History - http://constantinakatsari.wordpress.com MicrobiologyBytes - http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog My exciting PhD journey! - http://elenaphd.wordpress.com PhD Blog (dot) Net - http://phdblog.net Research blogging - http://www.researchblogging.org Science in the Open - http://cameronneylon.net Science of the Invisible - http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com Research and writing Stanford blog directory - http://blog.stanford.edu collaboration tools Starting out in Science - http://begsci.wordpress.com Dropbox - www.dropbox.com Google Docs - http://docs.google.com Project management, meeting and Information PBworks - http://pbworks.com collaboration tools management tools Wetpaint - www.wetpaint.com Wikia - www.wikia.com Adobe Connect - www.adobe.com Google Reader - www.google.com/reader Wikispaces - www.wikispaces.com Bamboo - www.bamboosolutions.com iGoogle - www.google.com/ig Zoho Office Suite - www.zoho.com Basecamp - http://basecamphq.com Netvibes - www.netvibes.com BigBlueButton - http://bigbluebutton.org Pageflakes - www.pageflakes.com Citrix GotoMeeting - www.gotomeeting.com DimDim - www.dimdim.com Elluminate - www.elluminate.com Location based tools Huddle - www.huddle.com Skype - www.skype.com Foursquare - http://foursquare.com Gowalla - http://gowalla.com Facebook Places - www.facebook.com/places

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