Transcript Strategies for using twitter to promote your research

RESEARCHING TOPICS
• Use Search Engine Tools such as Twitter search and Hashtags
• Look for useful sources .
• Tweetstats will measure the keywords most often used by the
experts in your field.
• Trending Topics on Twitter…if you want to find out what’s current
and topical.
• Trendsmap- Maps what’s being tweeted and where
• Tweetometer – measures amount rending of tweets correlated
with place. Designed to create source of data that can be mined.
(Crowdsourcing)
ACADEMIC INTERACTION
• Join the Research community (#phdchat #twitjc )
• Build up a presence. Tweeting, Retweeting. Commenting
• Interact – know what’s going on ..follow conferences, check
out papers. Staying alert. Alerting others from conferences
/seminars you’re attending
• Ask your research related questions and you may be
answered. Twitter is full of helpful people who may know more
than you…Free Advice .. .may lead to Collaboration.
ACADEMIC INTERACTION CONT.
• Find participants to recruit for studies and surveys.
• Find out what the competition is up to. Skulk or Strut ?
• Network – Twitter is a networking tool. Meet people with similar
interests . Follow to be followed-Reciprocity.
DATA MINING
• Use Twitter to obtain data from a survey…
• It’s a micro blogging site you can use to get participant
responses.
• Data aggregation –many people syndicate their twitter feeds to
Friend Feed. Results aggregated in a central location .
• Twitter is a real time global thought stream…which becomes an
archived source of historical information.
ACADEMIC PROMOTION AND DISSEMINATION
• Use Twitter as your showcase.
• Share your ongoing research and findings. Use Twitter to trailer
your blog.
• Advertise upcoming/existing articles etc.
• Use Twitter to promote citation and hits to articles/ theses.
• Non academics like Twitter’s brevity /immediacy (e.g. Sell an idea
to business)
OTHER POSSIBLE OUTCOMES
• Improve chances of publication
• Getting your output noticed.
• Demonstrate Impact for funding purposes
• Find a job .(@DaveMurr)
FURTHER READING
Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities
http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/LSEPublicPo
licy/pdf/Twitter
Social Media and Research
https://storify.com/rscsam/social-media-for-researchers
Twitter for Researchers
http://www.slideshare.net/thewikiman/twitter-for-researchers22968557?related=1