Twitter and blogging for researchers

(Reblogged from our Digital Scholarship Blog)

The Library works with the Researcher Development Team here at York, to deliver training on the aspects of Web 2.0 that impact on academia most. There's a whole suite of workshops around the idea of becoming a networked researcher - Russ Grant in RDT runs an introduction to social media, a session on enhancing your online reputation, and one on social networks for researchers (eg ResearchGate, Academia.edu, and LinkedIn). I run the sessions on Blogs and Blogging, and Twitter.

Here are the slides from my sessions this term (the handouts we used are linked to at the relevant point in the slides):

Twitter for Researchers from University of York Library

(If you're interested in the teaching side of using Twitter, see our previous blog post on the subject!)

Blogs and Blogging: Becoming a Networked Researcher from University of York Library

If you're interested in these, we're running the whole suite again next term - all the details are available via the Support for Researchers webpages:

In case you're still not sold, here are some comments from this term's feedback forms:

• Great. Ready to conquer the blogging world! Thanks
• Excellent session, well presented and very friendly. 
• I finally understand what Twitter is, well done Ned! 
• Totally recommended 
• It saved me so much time, since I now know exactly the options I'm interested in… THANKS!

Hope to see some of you next term!

Ned Potter,
Academic Liaison Librarian

Welcome to our blog

Well, this is exciting. My first ever blog post, and the first post of the Information Directorate’s new blog. Probably the only time I’ll ever get a double first.

We’ve launched this blog to supplement our existing channels of information; in addition to our website, you can already find us on Twitter and Facebook:

• Twitter
• Library
• IT Services
• Borthwick Institute for Archives

• Facebook
• Library
• IT Services
• Borthwick Institute for Archives

We’d like to use the blog for less formal information to give you a more detailed glimpse at the work we do, and at the interests and preoccupations of our colleagues.

The Information Directorate comprises Library, IT and Archives - our starting point for this blog is with posts from the Library side, but we intend to post from an IT viewpoint too from the summer onwards. Our friends at the Borthwick Institute for Archives have cunningly already launched their own blog, well established at: http://borthwickinstitute.blogspot.co.uk/

Our next post will be with you in just a day or two, offering a personal take on Germaine Greer’s appearance at the York Literature Festival. Subjects that we plan to cover over the coming months include some highlights of the collection recently gifted to us by the York Art Gallery, an insight into the book-binding exhibition currently on display in the Fairhurst building, World Book Night, and the centenary of the First World War.

We hope you’ll be back to join us again - in the meantime, please have a read through some of our favourite blogs, highlighted at the right of this page.

Joanne Casey
Communications & Marketing Manager