This document provides an overview of various digital tools that can be used to develop an online presence and digital profile as a researcher. It introduces microblogging using Twitter, blogging using Blogger, social referencing using CiteULike, presentation sharing using SlideShare, social networking using LinkedIn, collaborative writing using Google Docs, and managing RSS feeds using iGoogle. For each tool, it provides examples of how it can be used, tips for using it effectively, and links for further information. The document is intended to help workshop participants learn how to incorporate these tools into their academic research cycle and digital identity.
Presented at the Fort Bend Chamber, this expanded version of the original presentation contains strategies for engaging using Social Media and a glossary at the end with tools to use when starting out.
As always, contact Lach Mullen if you have any questions.
A 15-20 minute presentation for PGCLTHE students (which I am on a student on, and will be teaching next year) on Twitter, which I have been using since February 2009, and some ideas for using it in the classroom.
Constructing A Professional Presence - HEA Professional Presences For Academi...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation formed part of the HEA workshop on Professional Presences For Academics and looked at the different social sites on which academics should develop an online presence in order to promote themselves, engage students and employers and publicise their research.
This is a presentation I gave at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology 2013 (http://www.sebiology.org/meetings/Valencia/Valencia.html). It contains lots of tips for scientists to use social media appropriately and efficiently. It also highlights examples of social media in academia and types of possible content.
Presented at the Fort Bend Chamber, this expanded version of the original presentation contains strategies for engaging using Social Media and a glossary at the end with tools to use when starting out.
As always, contact Lach Mullen if you have any questions.
A 15-20 minute presentation for PGCLTHE students (which I am on a student on, and will be teaching next year) on Twitter, which I have been using since February 2009, and some ideas for using it in the classroom.
Constructing A Professional Presence - HEA Professional Presences For Academi...Thomas Lancaster
This presentation formed part of the HEA workshop on Professional Presences For Academics and looked at the different social sites on which academics should develop an online presence in order to promote themselves, engage students and employers and publicise their research.
This is a presentation I gave at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology 2013 (http://www.sebiology.org/meetings/Valencia/Valencia.html). It contains lots of tips for scientists to use social media appropriately and efficiently. It also highlights examples of social media in academia and types of possible content.
The Importance of an Online Presence: Entering the World of Blogs and Blogging. Workshop facilitated by Ned Potter at the New Professionals Conference 2010 held at University of Sheffield.
This workshop will help administrators of the John E. Fogarty Internal Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) explore options for using social media to connect to program alumni. Farra Trompeter will provide an overview of ways organizations use online communications to keep audiences engaged around the world, and will discuss ways to connect with fellows to strengthen future research collaborations that address global health needs.
In this workshop (Master in Translational Medicine-MSc, University of Barcelona's Faculty of Medicine-Hospital Clínic, 14 March 2018) I summarised the benefits which can be gained from use of social media (specially blogs, Twitter and other socialnetwork sites) to support research activities, and I provided examples of these innovative emerging resources as tools for scientific communication related to translational medicine, as well as discussed their implications for digital scholarship. Structure of the lecture: Introduction, Altmetrics, Active listening, Blogging, Microblogging, Networking, Sharing, Health 2.0, Resources, The ten commandments, References To deepen, Conclusions
Describing personal views on how social media (Twiiter, ResearchGate, Mendeley, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, YouTube) can be used when you are an Academic. What to look for and how to use them.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Please cite the resource as:
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis (2017) Are Social Media for Academics [presentation]. Nottingham, UK
#ALTNWESIG 2016 - University of Cumbria Tuesday 7th June, 2016 Alex Spiers
Our second event of 2016 sees us visit the lovely University of Cumbria (Lancaster Campus) on Tuesday 7th June, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 2.30 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Full programme to follow but is likely to include these topics:
BYOD/Mobile Strategy
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) white paper
ePortfolios & Pebbplepad V5
Turnitin Feedback Studio
VLE Review
Digital Capabilities
If you have an issue, case study or topic relevant to the group then get involved! Please get in touch with Alex livasp@liverpool.ac.uk or Chris c.r.jones1@ljmu.ac.uk
Please get in touch with Esther Jubb by Thursday 3rd June if you have any dietary requirements Esther.jubb@cumbria.ac.uk
The North West England Sig (#ALTNWESIG) exists to provide a network for the exchange of ideas and practices in relation to current issues in educational technology with the aim of supporting the informed use of learning technologies in North West England. Join us in our Google Plus Community
Hashtag for the day will be #ALTNWESIG
Look forward to seeing you all soon
Alex, Chris & Esther
WHEN
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM (BST) - Add to Calendar
WHERE
Alexandra Building - University of Cumbria, Lancaster, LA1 3JD - View Map
Xarxes socials i malalties emergents: Un risc? Un suport per a la prevenció?Xavier Lasauca i Cisa
Presentació de la ponència de clausura que vaig impartir el 30 de setembre de 2014 en el Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona en el marc del IV Taller de malalties emergents, organitzat per la Unitat d'Investigació en Tuberculosi de Barcelona. La presentació consta de dues parts: en la primera part es mostren alguns exemples que demostren la utilitat dels blogs i eines com ara Twitter per comunicar la ciència i incrementar l’impacte de la recerca; en la segona, s'examinen els avantatges de les xarxes socials per a la prevenció, la detecció i el seguiment de les malalties emergents, així com els riscos que comporta el seu mal ús o un ús poc responsable.
Tiffany Jane Brand Integrating Social Media into Your Federal Library Job SearchTiffany Brand
Follow up presentation for Careers in Federal Libraries/ ALA Job Placement Center Midwinter 12 event "Unusual Ways to Enhance Your Resume."
Contact @tiffanybrandlib for any questions.
This is a draft of the presentation that will be given at the HEA Social Sciences annual conference - Teaching forward: the future of the Social Sciences.
For further details of the conference: http://bit.ly/1cRDx0p
Bookings open until 19 May 2014 http://bit.ly/1hzCMLR or external.events@heacademy.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
This paper details an explorative and experimental project that is seeking to better implement virtual
technologies of Web 2.0 into the pedagogy of higher education. Our project endeavours to position these
technologies as a means of reorienting pedagogic practice within higher education around truly chaordic
communities of practice that serve to develop digital citizens. We have undertaken this project with the
belief that higher education should be concerned with answering the calls of our increasing digital society;
that is to say become a place for foster digitally literate learners, who’s learning is not restricted to physical
boundaries of the university but rather happens at all times over physical and virtual spaces.
The Importance of an Online Presence: Entering the World of Blogs and Blogging. Workshop facilitated by Ned Potter at the New Professionals Conference 2010 held at University of Sheffield.
This workshop will help administrators of the John E. Fogarty Internal Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) explore options for using social media to connect to program alumni. Farra Trompeter will provide an overview of ways organizations use online communications to keep audiences engaged around the world, and will discuss ways to connect with fellows to strengthen future research collaborations that address global health needs.
In this workshop (Master in Translational Medicine-MSc, University of Barcelona's Faculty of Medicine-Hospital Clínic, 14 March 2018) I summarised the benefits which can be gained from use of social media (specially blogs, Twitter and other socialnetwork sites) to support research activities, and I provided examples of these innovative emerging resources as tools for scientific communication related to translational medicine, as well as discussed their implications for digital scholarship. Structure of the lecture: Introduction, Altmetrics, Active listening, Blogging, Microblogging, Networking, Sharing, Health 2.0, Resources, The ten commandments, References To deepen, Conclusions
Describing personal views on how social media (Twiiter, ResearchGate, Mendeley, Google Scholar, Academia.edu, YouTube) can be used when you are an Academic. What to look for and how to use them.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
Please cite the resource as:
Stathis Th. Konstantinidis (2017) Are Social Media for Academics [presentation]. Nottingham, UK
#ALTNWESIG 2016 - University of Cumbria Tuesday 7th June, 2016 Alex Spiers
Our second event of 2016 sees us visit the lovely University of Cumbria (Lancaster Campus) on Tuesday 7th June, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 2.30 PM (Lunch will be provided)
Full programme to follow but is likely to include these topics:
BYOD/Mobile Strategy
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) white paper
ePortfolios & Pebbplepad V5
Turnitin Feedback Studio
VLE Review
Digital Capabilities
If you have an issue, case study or topic relevant to the group then get involved! Please get in touch with Alex livasp@liverpool.ac.uk or Chris c.r.jones1@ljmu.ac.uk
Please get in touch with Esther Jubb by Thursday 3rd June if you have any dietary requirements Esther.jubb@cumbria.ac.uk
The North West England Sig (#ALTNWESIG) exists to provide a network for the exchange of ideas and practices in relation to current issues in educational technology with the aim of supporting the informed use of learning technologies in North West England. Join us in our Google Plus Community
Hashtag for the day will be #ALTNWESIG
Look forward to seeing you all soon
Alex, Chris & Esther
WHEN
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM (BST) - Add to Calendar
WHERE
Alexandra Building - University of Cumbria, Lancaster, LA1 3JD - View Map
Xarxes socials i malalties emergents: Un risc? Un suport per a la prevenció?Xavier Lasauca i Cisa
Presentació de la ponència de clausura que vaig impartir el 30 de setembre de 2014 en el Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona en el marc del IV Taller de malalties emergents, organitzat per la Unitat d'Investigació en Tuberculosi de Barcelona. La presentació consta de dues parts: en la primera part es mostren alguns exemples que demostren la utilitat dels blogs i eines com ara Twitter per comunicar la ciència i incrementar l’impacte de la recerca; en la segona, s'examinen els avantatges de les xarxes socials per a la prevenció, la detecció i el seguiment de les malalties emergents, així com els riscos que comporta el seu mal ús o un ús poc responsable.
Tiffany Jane Brand Integrating Social Media into Your Federal Library Job SearchTiffany Brand
Follow up presentation for Careers in Federal Libraries/ ALA Job Placement Center Midwinter 12 event "Unusual Ways to Enhance Your Resume."
Contact @tiffanybrandlib for any questions.
This is a draft of the presentation that will be given at the HEA Social Sciences annual conference - Teaching forward: the future of the Social Sciences.
For further details of the conference: http://bit.ly/1cRDx0p
Bookings open until 19 May 2014 http://bit.ly/1hzCMLR or external.events@heacademy.ac.uk
ABSTRACT
This paper details an explorative and experimental project that is seeking to better implement virtual
technologies of Web 2.0 into the pedagogy of higher education. Our project endeavours to position these
technologies as a means of reorienting pedagogic practice within higher education around truly chaordic
communities of practice that serve to develop digital citizens. We have undertaken this project with the
belief that higher education should be concerned with answering the calls of our increasing digital society;
that is to say become a place for foster digitally literate learners, who’s learning is not restricted to physical
boundaries of the university but rather happens at all times over physical and virtual spaces.
Innovative Pedagogies that Embrace Technologies #NET16confEmma Gillaspy
Debate session at NET conference 2016 looking at how we can use technologies effectively to enhance the student experience, empower students and modernise nursing education curricula.
Authors: Dr Jackie Leigh, Kyle Charnley, Lyn Rosen, Dr Michelle Howarth and Dr Emma Gillaspy
5 Ways To Improve Your Higher Ed Website With Google Analytics with Becky Var...hannonhill
In this presentation, 5 Ways To Improve Your Higher Ed Website With Google Analytics, Becky will take attendees through a deeper look at how Google Analytics can help improve their website and where to start!
Presentation given by Rebecca Ferguson at the ORT University Institute of Education, Montevideo, Uruguay on 12 April 2016. It deals with the Innovating Pedagogy reports produced annually since 2012 by the Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at The Open University (OU).
Contemporary educational models are able to offer Education to FEW, EXPENSIVE, WORTHLESS kind. All academics across the world are in search of Educational models that can offer Education to ALL, PAID, EXCELLENT education.. Here is a model offered on the lines of Nai Talim - Gandhian Education . Your search for excellent education ends here ..
Grainne Conole and Terese Bird presented this in a webinar for Open Education Week 2014, on 14th March 2014. The webinar is an activity of the eMundus EU-funded project about virtual mobility and open educational partnerships.
To succeed in today’s society, rich on information and knowledge, students and teachers must use the modern technology effectively. The education should help students to develop the competencies, necessary for the successful life and work in the 21st century.
Key competencies of the future are:
critical thinking,
creativity,
problem solving,
communication
and collaboration.
To become an innovative school means to start changing the pedagogic paradigm on all the levels of management as well as with the entire teaching staff with the goal that its agents become more innovative. In the article, the project “Innovative Pedagogy in the Light of the 21st Century Competencies” issued by the Ministry of Education is presented. Its dominant goal is to systematically develop the 1:1 pedagogy implementation (http://www.education.qld.gov.au/smartclassrooms) and all the accompanying e-services, as for instance the e-portfolio, distance learning “Innovative Pedagogy Node”, the development of the implementing curricula with the integration of ICT, didactic trainings for different agents, and the development of the good practice criteria.
Talk on \'Innovative Teaching Methodologies\' presented at a University Grants Commission (UGC) sponsored workshop on ‘New Developments in Management and Research’ at B.K. School of Business Management, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad on
30th March, 2011
Introduction to Social Media for Small Businesses. This presentation is a mixture of concepts of social media and getting started with Twitter and Facebook. Special thanks to Gary Smith of Artesian City Marketing for providing some of the instructional information. For more information http://blog.anneadrian.com
Twitter is the world’s most popular microblogging site. Users share real time thoughts in 140 character bites. The service has changed the way people communicate and share on the web. While its been credited with everything from oversharing to coordinating revolutions, the service offers libraries a unique opportunity to connect directly with users. Learn how to find out what people are saying about your library, respond and create a buzz for your library or library special event.
For those who already tweet, but want to grow their network and get more out of the platform. Particularly relevant if you're in the academic environment, but applicable to all sectors.
There is a more detailed version of this presentation, which was used as part of the Becoming a Networked Researcher suite of workshops at the University of York, elsewhere on this Slideshare account.
Stephen Fry: “It’s called Twitter. Not Serious Debate or Marketing Tool” … So does it have a place in Higher Education?
Time is short, money is short. There’s a lot of change going on in the world, methods of communication are changing… which do we invest time or money in?
What is Twitter? How do you use it?
What are the ‘conventions’ of Twitter?
What are some of the Twitter tools, third party apps, and how can Twitter lists help?
How can Twitter help with your academic profile?
How might Twitter help in the classroom?
I give talks, provide training and work one-on-one with business owners, executives and staff to teach how to use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and blogging for business. This slide set is from my Aptos Chamber of Commerce talk, "Twitter for Business," Feb. 9.
Notes from a day-long training seminar which covers the effective use of social media, from developing a strategy, to looking at how to use a variety of social networking platforms, and where to get help!
Workshop at the Lancaster University Researcher Day on 26/09/2013 (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/hr/development/courses/TeachingResearchRelated/Researcher-Day/index.html)
Plenary presentation at the Lancaster University Researcher Day on 26/09/2013 (http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/hr/development/courses/TeachingResearchRelated/Researcher-Day/index.html)
Presentation by Christine Nightingale (REF Equalities and Diversity Advisory Panel and Head of Equality and Diversity, De Montfort University) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Presentation by Geoff Rodgers (Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, Brunel University) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Creating a thriving research environmentEmma Gillaspy
Workshop by Justin Hutchence (Research Staff Development Manager, University of Reading) and Christos Petichakis (Educational Developer, University of Liverpool) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Presentation by Simon Kerridge (Director of Research Services at the University of Kent) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Informing the research environment with the Concordat for Units of AssessmentEmma Gillaspy
Workshop by Karen Clegg (Director of Researcher Development and Concordat Implementation Coordinator, University of York) and Rob Daley (Research Development Coordinator, Herriot Watt University) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Presentation by Vicky Jones (REF Deputy Manager) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Presentation by Alison Mitchell (Deputy Director of Vitae) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Workshop by Pooja Takhar (Senior Manager: HEIs, Vitae) and Emma Gillaspy (Vitae NW Hub Manager) at the Vitae event 'Preparing for the Research Excellence Framework: Researcher development, the environment and future impact' on 11 July 2012 in Manchester www.vitae.ac.uk/preparingfortheref
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures
21st Century Research Profiles
1. 21st Century Researcher
Profiles
Participant handout
Workshop facilitators:
Dr Emma Gillaspy, Vitae NW Hub Manager
Dr Rachel Cowen, Faculty Research Staff Training Coordinator
Our online presence:
MHS Training Team:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/trainingteam
Blog: http://researchtraining.wordpress.com
Website: www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/trainingteam
Vitae NW Hub:
Twitter: twitter.com/vitaenwhub
Blog: vitaenwhub.posterous.com/
Website: www.vitae.ac.uk/nwhub
TODAYS SLIDES CAN BE VIEWED AT: www.slideshare.net/vitaenwhub
21st Century Researcher Profiles
09.30 – 13:00
3 March 2011
2. Contents
How do you find information on the internet? ............................................................................................ 3
My digital identity ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Your network ................................................................................................................................................ 5
Your academic research cycle ....................................................................................................................... 7
Tools for developing your digital profile ....................................................................................................... 9
1. Microblogging ................................................................................................................................... 9
2. Blogging ........................................................................................................................................... 12
3. Social referencing using CiteULike .................................................................................................. 14
4. Presentation sharing using SlideShare ............................................................................................ 16
5. Social networking using LinkedIn .................................................................................................... 18
6. Collaborative writing using GoogleDocs ......................................................................................... 19
Managing RSS feeds using iGoogle ............................................................................................................. 23
Your digital profile....................................................................................................................................... 24
Additional tools and resources ................................................................................................................... 26
Links ............................................................................................................................................................ 28
21st Century Researcher Profiles 03/03/2011 Page 2
3. How do you find information on the internet?
What are your favourite work and non-work websites and why?
How do you find information on the web currently?
Did you find out any interesting sites/techniques from others?
21st Century Researcher Profiles 03/03/2011 Page 3
4. My digital identity
Search for yourself on:
• www.123people.co.uk
• www.google.co.uk
• www.manchester.ac.uk
What did you find?
Are you happy with it?
Is it up to date?
Does it showcase you and your research?
Could it be improved? How?
Pleased…disappointed…worried…other thoughts!?
21st Century Researcher Profiles 03/03/2011 Page 4
6. Who are the main connectors in your network?
Who are your weak links?
Are there any virtual links?
How would you like to extend your research connections and see your network and long tails grow?
Other comments and thoughts:
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7. Your academic research cycle
Map your activities onto your own academic research cycle:
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8. What are your non-research activities?
What tools do you currently use to undertake your academic activities?
How might technology help you when undertaking these activities?
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9. Tools for developing your digital profile
1. Microblogging
Twitter (twitter.com/) is a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send
and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on
the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers.
Applications:
Ask questions relevant to your practice
Share links and resources you find interesting
Find out what others are interested in
Follow a conference (#tag)
Receive news (e.g. TimesHighered, BBSRC)
Collaborate and discuss with your network
How to use:
To view Twitter through a test account:
(skip this section if you would like to join Twitter)
• Visit twitter.com/ and click ‘sign in’.
• Enter the username ‘techintraining1’ and password ‘integrating2010’.
To create your own account:
• Visit twitter.com/ and click ‘Sign up’.
• Complete the registration form choosing a username that will reflect you or your research
Remember to untick the email updates option.
• Click ‘Next step: friends’ at the bottom of the page (unless you see a particular area of interest).
• Click the relevant buttons to see if any of your contacts on Gmail, yahoo etc are on Twitter already.
Otherwise, click ‘Skip import’ at the bottom of the page.
• Follow the ‘Get started on Twitter’ steps.
What to practice:
• Enter a tweet using the ‘What’s happening’ box.
• Click the ‘Who to follow’ link and find a source you would like to hear from and follow them.
• Widen your network by clicking on someone you are following. Then view who they are following to
see if any of them are of interest to you too.
• Update your profile settings to include a bio, image and background.
• Retweet something of interest by hovering over someone else’s tweet and clicking the retweet link
(note: ALWAYS acknowledge the source of the retweet by entering ‘RT @username’ in your retweet
- this will be done for you if you use the retweet function on Twitter or other applications).
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10. Tips:
• You can use other applications to manage your Twitter. A good example of this is Twhirl. This shows
tweets from people you follow via a pop-up message in the corner of your computer screen in much
the same way as an incoming email does. You can also use the Twhirl application to enter tweets,
retweet other people’s tweets and shorten URLs using bit.ly (see next tip):
•
• You can gather evidence of how many people (and from what country) click on the links in your
tweets by using a tracking URL shortener such as bit.ly (bit.ly). You can also collect how many times
your tweet was retweeted by others and view your clicking history over time. For more details about
link tracking via bit.ly, visit bit.ly/a/tour/track/.
• You can gather feedback and evidence about an event or resource by using the #tag in your tweets.
For more information see mashable.com/2009/05/17/twitter-hashtags/. If you would like to record
the evidence collected, you can set up an archive via Twapper Keeper (twapperkeeper.com).
• For example, on Twitter, search for #ted. This will show you all of the tweets in which people are
talking about the www.ted.com resource (which is a great website so check it out if you don’t know
about it!)
• You can attach photos or videos to your tweets using relevant applications. This can be done using
Twirl (via Yfrog) or many other applications. For more details visit help.twitter.com/entries/75603-
how-to-post-photos-videos-on-twitter.
• You can tweet from many mobile phones via applications (on smartphones such as iPhone or HTC)
or SMS.
Examples:
• Times Higher: twitter.com/timeshighered
• Richard Dawkins: twitter.com/RichardDawkins
• MRC: twitter.com/MRCcomms
• Vitae NW Hub: twitter.com/vitaenwhub
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11. Further information:
• ESSENTIAL READING: The Twitter guidebook (Mashable the social media guide)
mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
• Using Twitter at academic conferences http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-341041/Using-
Twitter-at-academic-conferences.html
• Getting started on Twitter http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332011/Getting-started-on-
Twitter.html
• Twitter in plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
• 7 things you should know about microblogging
www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutMicro/174629
• 7 things you should know about Twitter
• www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutTwitt/161801
• Microblogging www.vitae.ac.uk/dr10
• Twitter on Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
• 19 Twitter desktop apps compared mashable.com/2009/06/27/twitter-desktop-apps/
• URL shorteners: Which shortening service should you use?
searchengineland.com/analysis-which-url-shortening-service-should-you-use-17204
• How People are using Twitter during Conferences (Wolfgang Reinhardt, Martin Ebner, Gunter
Beham, Cristina Costa) lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~i203/ebner/publication/09_edumedia.pdf
• Excerpt from web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/microblogging/
Getting Started
The easiest way to make sense of microblogging is give it a go! It’s not for everyone, but the majority of people
who use it as part of their working practice report that they find it beneficial. Different people adopt different
practices. Additionally they tend to adapt their practice at different times, locations and as their network grows.
Ten things to try
• Search Twitter (http://search.twitter.com/) for keywords that are meaningful to your research, job or
teaching.
• Sign up for an account (hint: try to chose a short username!), add a few details about yourself and follow a 5-
10 people. Track what they’re ‘tweeting’ each day for a week.
• Ready to make some noise? If so, write a few posts about what you’re doing, reading or writing. Also send a
reply to someone. (Hint: replies are referred to as “at replies” because you write ‘@username’ to reply to
someone.)
• Follow somebody famous, e.g. @stephenfry, @lancearmstrong or @BarackObama
• Take a picture and post it on Twitter! (TwitPic and yfrog are popular services)
• Encourage students to follow a professional working in a field related to their studies, e.g. a photojournalist,
an author, a GP or a web designer.
• Want some feedback or opinions from your network? Then ask them a question and ‘crowdsource’ some
responses. You’ll be surprised how willing they are to help!
• If there’s a conference you can’t attend, find out the conference’s hashtag (used to link related tweets) and
track what’s being talked about. Perhaps engage & ask a question?
• Been using Twitter via the web for a while? Finding there’s too much to keep track of? Then try using a Twitter
client to help make sense of the noise. Tweetdeck, Seesmic and Twhurl are all very popular right now!
• Check out other microblogging tools such as identi.ca, Tumblr, Jaiku and Yammer.
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12. 2. Blogging
Applications:
• Disseminate information to your community
• Gather comments and feedback from your community
• Gather evidence of the impact of your research (via guest posts or other people’s blogs)
• Use as a personal or team record/diary
• Gather information from other blogs
How to use:
To view Blogger through a test account:
(advisable before setting your own blog account up)
• Visit www.blogger.com and click ‘sign in’.
• Enter the email address ‘techintraining1@gmail.com’ and password ‘integrating2010’.
What to practice:
• Enter a new post by:
o Click ‘New post’
o Enter a title
o Enter some text into the text box
o You can practice inserting photos and videos by clicking on the icons. Try inserting an image
from a website or download an image to the desktop and insert it into your blog post.
o Try linking to other websites by highlighting the text you want to link and clicking on the link
button on the menu bar.
o Click ‘Publish post’
o Click the ‘View post’ button to see your post live.
• Embed a video from YouTube into a new post by:
o Select a video you would like to embed using the YouTube website.
o Click on the <Embed> button below the video.
o Copy the text in the box that appears.
o Go to your Blogger account and click ‘new post’
o Click on the ‘Edit HTML’ tab and paste the text you copied. Enter a title for the post and any
other information you would like to include and publish your post.
• Try using the same process to embed other items such as:
o a Google Maps location
o a video from Ted.com
o a Slideshare presentation (see tool 4)
• Try customising the blog, by changing the template, fonts and colours or rearranging the page
elements. You can also add more page elements and gadgets e.g. your live Twitter updates.
To create your own account:
• Visit www.blogger.com and click ‘Create a blog’
• If you already have a Google account, click the ‘sign in first’ link and complete your email and
password details. If you do not have a Google account, complete the fields on this page and click
‘continue’.
• Complete the ‘Sign up for Blogger’ page and click ‘continue’.
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13. • Give your blog a title and URL (think about this carefully!)
• Choose a template and click ‘continue’.
• Click ‘start blogging’ and blog away!
Tips:
• Look at other people’s blogs and decide what you like and don’t like about them. Is it a particular
blog provider you like (e.g. Blogger, Wordpress, Posterous etc)?
• Try to design your blog to suit the needs of your audience and to reflect your own style.
• Decide on how formal/personal you are going to make the blog and stick to it.
• Decide what you are going to use the blog for e.g. is it going to be a reflective journal, to create an
online identity for your research area, to engage the public in your research etc.
• Try to blog regularly (at least once a fortnight) but not too much (not more than once a day)
otherwise you are risking ‘under-’ or ‘overselling’ to your audience.
Examples:
• University of Manchester (MHS Faculty) research training team: researchtraining.wordpress.com/
• Manchester Postgraduate Careers Blog manchesterpgcareers.wordpress.com/
• Tristram Hooley: adventuresincareerdevelopment.posterous.com/
• Cristina Costa: knowmansland.com/learningpath/
• Research blogs: exquisitelife.researchresearch.com
• AMRC (Simon Denegri): ceoamrc.wordpress.com
Further information:
• Tips for academic blogging http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332861/Tips-for-academic-
blogging.html
• How to blog webpossibilities.pbworks.com/blogs
• Tutorial on creating a blog (Wordpress or Blogger) and using RSS
emtechspring2008.pbworks.com/Tutorials
• Blogs in plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
• Blogging www.vitae.ac.uk/dr10
• Blogging as a tool for reflection and learning www.virclass.net/eped/index.php?action=static&id=29
• 7 things you should know about blogging
www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutBlogs/156809
• Why blog? www.microbiologybytes.com/AJC/whyblog.html
• 8 reasons why researchers should blog homelessinstoke.com/2010/02/22/8-reasons-why-
researchers-should-blog/
• Why do I bother? An academic's view of blogging steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-do-i-
bother.html
• Adventures in Researcher Development 2.0 pgrdocblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/adventures-in-
researcher-development-2-0/
• Top 100 blogs (updated daily) technorati.com/blogs/top100/
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14. 3. Social referencing using CiteULike
Applications:
• Easily store references you find online
• Discover new articles and resources
• Automated article recommendations
• Share references with your colleagues
• Find out who's reading what you're reading
• Store and search your PDFs
• Build a collaborative library for your research team
How to use:
To view CiteULike through a test account:
• Visit www.citeulike.org and click ‘sign in’.
• Enter the username ‘techintraining1’ and password ‘integrating2010’.
What to practice:
• Find and add a reference
o In a separate window, visit PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ) and find an article
you are interested in
o Copy the URL of the reference e.g. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21360695
o On CiteULike, hover over ‘My CiteULike’ and click ‘Post URL’
o Paste the URL from PubMed and click ‘Post it!’
o In the tags enter several keywords for the article separated by a space e.g. osteoarthritis
genetics SNP
o Complete the rest of the options according to your preference and click “Post Article”
o Click ‘Library’ in ‘MyCiteULike’ to view your library
• Explore the social features
o Go to your ‘Library’
o The bottom line of the reference “Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the
Next Generation Web” will say something like “posted
to social citation by techintraining1 on 2011-03-02 17:15:51 // along with 349
people and 29 groups”. Click on the link that says “along with 349 people and 29 groups”
(the exact wording link may be different)
o Click on a group “eLearning in Leicester” (highlighted in pink)
o Scroll down and click on the title of any article of interest (if none are of interest just
pretend!)
o Click [copy] to add this citation to your own library
To create your own account:
• Visit www.citeulike.org and click ‘Join now’ or ‘Join now with Facebook’.
• Complete the registration form and click ‘Sign up now!’.
• Click ‘Continue’.
Tips and next steps:
• Watch groups and other users and be alerted when they update their libraries
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15. • Create a group and invite others to upload their reference
• Export lists to endnote and other reference softwares
• Look for any groups and users who have uploaded the same references as you to increase your
network
Further information:
• Social citation workshop slides from the Digital Researcher www.vitae.ac.uk/dr11live
• 10 ways to promote an academic article that you’ve just published using social media and the
web www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-347081/10-ways-to-promote-an-academic-article-
that-youve-just-published-using-social-media-and-the-web.html
• CiteULike and other social citation tools http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-
332831/CiteULike-and-other-social-citation-tools.html
• CiteULike blog http://blog.citeulike.org/
• Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/emamy-
cameron/
• CiteULike: Keeping your bibliography on the web http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/156431-
205731/Citeulike---keeping-your-bibliography-on-the-web.html
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16. 4. Presentation sharing using SlideShare
Applications:
• Share your PowerPoint presentations, pdf or Word documents with selected people or the public
• Keep a private record of your presentations
How to use:
To view SlideShare through a test account:
(skip this step if you would like to set up a Slideshare account)
• Visit www.slideshare.net
• Enter the username ‘techintraining1’ and password ‘integrating2010’.
To create your own account:
• Visit www.slideshare.net and click ‘Sign up’ (you can use your Facebook login if you have one)
• Complete the registration form and click ‘SIGN UP’. Remember to deselect the newsletter option if
you do not want to receive news from SlideShare.
• Click ‘Skip this’ when asked if you would like to upgrade.
What to practice:
• Create and upload a presentation
o Create a short presentation in PowerPoint and save to the desktop.
o Visit www.slideshare.net and login.
o Click ‘UPLOAD’ in the top menu bar, then ‘Upload publicly’.
o Select the presentation you created.
o Ensure the title is correct and enter a short description of the presentation.
o You can add tags (keywords) to make your presentation more searchable by yourself or
others. For more details on tagging, visit www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/how-to-use-tagging/
o Select a category for the presentation.
o Untick ‘Allow file download’ unless you would like people to be able to download the
presentation.
o Click ‘Save changes’ and allow the upload to complete.
• Embed the presentation in your blog by:
o Copy the ‘Embed’ code to the right of your presentation.
o Open a new window and log into your blog. To use the test blog, visit www.blogger.com and
click ‘sign in’. Enter the email address ‘techintraining1@gmail.com’ and password
‘integrating2010’.
o Click ‘New post’, enter the title of your form and ensure you have the ‘Edit HTML’ tab
selected.
o Paste the code you copied from Google Docs into the main body of the post.
o Click ‘Publish post’
o Click the ‘View post’ button to see your post live.
• Share the presentation via Twitter, Facebook or Email using the links to the right of your
presentation.
• Edit your profile to include additional information about yourself or your team.
• View your uploaded presentations via the ‘My uploads’ link.
• Find a person that is of interest to you and follow them.
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17. • Find a presentation you like and add it to your favourites.
Tips:
• If you have a LinkedIn professional profile, your SlideShare presentations can automatically be seen
on your profile. For more details, visit www.slideshare.net/apps/linkedin/faqs
• You can upload videos to SlideShare.
• You can sync an audio file with a presentation you have uploaded.
• You can join a group of members with similar interests.
Examples:
• Alex Hardman www.slideshare.net/actualal
• Vitae NW Hub www.slideshare.net/vitaenwhub
• Manchester PG Careers www.slideshare.net/ManchesterPGCareers
• University of Sussex www.slideshare.net/universityofsussex
• Steve Wheeler www.slideshare.net/timbuckteeth
Further information:
• Using Slideshare And 5 Great Social Media Presentations
www.simplyzesty.com/brands/slideshare-5-great-social-media-presentations
• Top 100 tools: SlideShare www.c4lpt.co.uk/Top100Tools/slideshare.html
• Using SlideShare to share presentations www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/crossmedia/advice/slideshare/
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18. 5. Social networking using LinkedIn
Applications:
• Maintain your professional profile
• Participate in group discussions
• Extend your research connections
How to use:
To create your own account:
• Visit www.linkedin.com and sign up by completing the relevant fields and searching your email
contacts to see if they are on LinkedIn
What to practice:
• Search for colleagues by clicking the ‘University of Manchester’ link at the bottom of the page
• Click the ‘Profile’ tab. Add details to your profile using the profile completion tips
• Find a group you may like e.g. Medical Research Council
• Extend your networks by viewing who your connections are connected to. Also look at what groups
they are part of.
Examples:
• Emma Gillaspy http://uk.linkedin.com/in/emmagillaspy
• Cristina Costa http://uk.linkedin.com/in/cristinacost
• Sarah Blackford http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sarah-blackford/10/b72/968
• Iain Cameron http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/iain-cameron/13/711/219
Further information:
• 7 ways to get more out of LinkedIn http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/linkedin-tips/
• Social networking software for researchers http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-
341701/Social-networking-software-for-researchers.html
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19. 6. Collaborative writing using GoogleDocs
Applications:
• Create private documents you can access from anywhere
• Create documents on a public or semi-public basis
• Create and amend collaborative documents e.g. funding proposals, journal articles, presentations
• Create online questionnaires to gather feedback from students or the public
How to use:
To view Google Docs through a test account:
(skip this step if you already have a Google account or would like to set one up)
• Visit docs.google.com.
• Enter the email address ‘techintraining1@gmail.com’ and password ‘integrating2010’.
To create your own account:
• Visit docs.google.com.
• If you already have a Google account, complete your email and password details and click ‘Sign in’. If
you do not have a Google account, click ‘Create an account’, complete the fields on this page and
click ‘I accept. Create my account’.
What to practice:
• Create a document by:
o Click ‘Create new’ and ‘Document’
o Add a title and some text.
o Click ‘Save now’
• Share a document by:
o Click ‘Share’ and ‘Sharing settings’. Enter your own email address and click close. (you will be
sent an invite by email to edit/view the document)
o Alternatively, from the GoogleDocs main page, hover over a document title, click ‘Actions’
then ‘Share’, ‘Sharing settings’
• Create a folder to store items by clicking ‘Create new’ and ‘Collections’. You can share a whole
collection by hovering over the collection title, click ‘Actions’ then ‘Share’, ‘Sharing settings’
• Upload a document by:
o Create a document in Word, Excel or Powerpoint and save it to your desktop.
o In GoogleDocs, click ‘Upload’
o Select the file you have created and ensure the convert button is ticked.
o Click ‘Private’ and select the privacy settings you require.
o Click ‘Destination collection’ to choose which folder to store the document in (if you have
shared the collection with others, they will automatically be able to see this document once
it has uploaded).
o Click ‘Start upload’.
• Create a form by
o Click ‘Create new’ and ‘Form’.
o Add a title (include your initials on the test forms to distinguish them from others created
during this training session). Add some background information then enter some sample
questions. Try selecting different question types to view what is available.
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20. o Try deleting and/or reordering a question (drag and drop the questions to move them).
o Add a section header or page break using the ‘Add item’ button.
o Change the theme of the form.
o Edit the confirmation text that responders to the form see by clicking ‘More actions’ then
‘Edit confirmation’.
o At any point, you can view the form by clicking the link at the bottom of the page.
o Once you are happy with the form, click ‘Save’. N.B. If you change your mind and want to
amend your form later just hover over the relevant question/section and click the edit icon.
o Send the completed form by clicking ‘Email this form’. This sends the form via your Google
email account. If you would like to send the form via your university or other account, just
send the form to yourself then forward it on in your usual email client.
• Embed the form into your blog by:
o Click ‘More actions’ then ‘Embed’. Right click the highlighted code text and click ‘copy’.
o Open a new window and log into your blog. To use the test blog, visit www.blogger.com and
click ‘sign in’. Enter the email address ‘techintraining1@gmail.com’ and password
‘integrating2010’.
o Click ‘New post’, enter the title of your form and ensure you have the ‘Edit HTML’ tab
selected.
o Paste the code you copied from Google Docs into the main body of the post.
o Click ‘Publish the post’
o Click the ‘View post’ button to see your post live.
• View and export form data by:
o Complete one of the forms you have created a number of times using test data (via the blog
or form website directly).
o Visit docs.google.com. Click on the title of your form to view the responses.
o To view the data in a graphical format click ‘Form’ and then ‘Show summary of responses’.
o To export the data as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet click ‘File, ‘Download as’ and then select
‘Excel’.
Tips:
• Set up your collections (folders) with relevant sharing settings before adding your documents. This
means you don’t have to share each individual file you create, it will be done for you by being
located in the relevant collection.
• You can upload files without converting them in case you want to store original files or other files
such as PDFs or audio/video.
• If you select the Private settings to only those who receive the link, you can send out documents to
your students.
• By embedding your forms into your blog, you direct traffic from users who may not visit it
otherwise.
• If you'd like to track responses on your form(s), you can add the Forms gadget to your iGoogle page
(see docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=87805).
Examples (forms):
• Creating highly successful PhD students: The 7 secrets of success for supervisors (feedback form)
spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dFJKUmNjZFhkS0JLejljOEJkbmRRd3c6MA
• Evaluation questionnaire for Turbocharge your writing workshop (embedded in a blog)
vitaenwhub.posterous.com/evaluation-questionnaire-for-turbocharge-your
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21. Further information:
• Google Docs 'widely used' at 1 in 5 workplaces www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/google-
docs-widely-used-1-in-5-workplaces-132
• Using forms in Google Docs www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzgaUOW6GIs
• Google Docs in plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
• 100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators
http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2009/100-great-google-docs-tips-for-students-
educators/
• GoogleDocs blog http://googledocs.blogspot.com/
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22. Which tools do you think are useful for you?
How do the tools contribute to your digital identity?
How do the tools help you grow your networks?
How do the tools help you in your academic research cycle?
Other comments and thoughts:
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23. Managing RSS feeds using iGoogle
Finding RSS feeds
NOTE: Any site that has the following symbol has an RSS feed
• Go to www.mrc.ac.uk
• Scroll down and click on the RSS symbol
• Click on a link you are interested in e.g. ‘Funding news’
• Copy the URL of the website (the website might look a little odd but don’t worry).
Add the feed to an RSS reader (This example uses iGoogle) using a test account
• Click on www.google.co.uk/ig
• Sign in using the email ‘techintraining1@gmail.com’ and password ‘integrating2010’
• Click “Add Stuff”
• Click “Add feed or gadget” (bottom left of the screen)
• Paste in the URL you copied from the MRC and click “Add”
• Click “Back to iGoogle home” (top left of the screen)
Optional Extension Tasks
• Repeat the above process with feeds from one or more of the following:
o Upcoming courses on our website www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/trainingteam
o A search on the CiteULike website for “Open Science”
o The feed from http://www.plosmedicine.org/
o The top 20 cited articles in the subject area of ‘Medicine’ on the Scopus website
(http://info.scopus.com/topcited/ )
• Rearrange your ‘gadgets’ by clicking and dragging.
• Delete a gadget using the down arrow link in the top right corner of the gadget.
• Add a new tab using the down arrow link in the ‘Home’ section on the left.
• Change the theme using the link next to the ‘Add stuff’ link.
• Set up your own iGoogle account featuring your own favourite news areas
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24. Your digital profile
What is your strategy for developing your digital profile? Take into account:
• What you found out about your current digital identity
• Your network and how you would like it to grow
• Your academic activities and research cycle
• The tools you have found useful or want to find out more about
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25. What are you going to do to develop your profile?
• In the next week?
• In the next month?
• In the next three months?
• In the long term?
Final comments and thoughts:
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26. Additional tools and resources
Prezi
Applications:
Dynamic presentation software as an alternative to PowerPoint
How to use:
To view Prezi through a test account:
(skip this step if you already have a Google account or would like to set one up)
• Visit prezi.com.
• Enter the email address ‘techintraining1@gmail.com’ and password ‘integrating2010’.
To create your own account:
• Visit prezi.com and click ‘Sign up’.
• Click ‘Student/teacher licenses’ and select the ‘Edu Enjoy’ option.
• Enter your academic email address and click ‘Continue’.
• Enter your university details and click ‘Continue’. A confirmation email will be sent to you to activate
your account.
What to practice:
• Enter a title and short description of a test presentation.
• Choose one of the themes and click ‘Create’.
• Click ‘Open me’ and select whether you would like to make your Prezi public or private. Click ‘Open’.
• View the getting started video then close the video window to leave your canvas.
• Double click on the canvas and write the title of your presentation. Brainstorm a few ideas for your
presentation and enter these around the canvas by double-clicking to write.
• Click once on each part of your text and move it around using the centre of the ‘zebra’, change the
size using the inner circle of the ‘zebra’ and rotate using the outer circle.
• Try uploading an image or video using the ‘Insert’ menu.
• Once you are happy with the layout of your canvas, start grouping items together using the ‘Frames’
menu. N.B. You can use invisible frames to group items without showing a frame.
• Next draw a path around your canvas using the ‘Path’ menu. You can select individual items or
frames in your path.
• View your presentation using the ‘Show’ menu.
• Exit the presentation then click on it in your ‘My Prezi’ page. Download the Prezi for use on
computers which have no internet access.
Tips:
• There is a whole host of help on the ‘Prezi learn’ site at prezi.com/learn
• You can adapt other people’s Prezi presentations rather than creating them from scratch. To do this,
click on ‘Showcase’ and tick ‘Show only reusable’.
• Prezi is a difficult tool to ‘teach’ so just have a play around and see what works for you. Your first
presentation may take some time but once you learn the system, it’s incredibly easy and intuitive.
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27. Examples:
• About perspective prezi.com/jipjiqvj6dsc/about-perspective/
• Discover IE University prezi.com/wxv6uhgee4sr/discover-ie-university/
• Singing Bridges prezi.com/io1sgtwwkg5v/singing-bridges/
Further information:
• Toolkit: Prezi effectivenesscoach.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/toolkit-prezi/
• Prezi blog blog.prezi.com/
• Prezi: A new presentation tool that lets you see the big picture and the nitty gritty details
techrav.blogspot.com/2009/05/prezi-new-presentation-that-lets-you.html
Screenr
screenr.com
Screenr is a web-based tool that lets you create screencasts without installing any software. You just
click the record button and your screen activity is recorded along with narration from your microphone.
Screenr then publishes your screencast in high-definition Flash format. Screenr makes it easy to share
your screencast on Twitter, YouTube or anywhere else on the web.
Diigo
www.diigo.com
Diigo allows you to take personal notes and highlight text information on web pages just as you would
on a piece of paper. You can then bookmark and save this information for further review, while adding
tags to keep everything organized. In bookmarking this information, you can also choose to share with
colleagues and friends to allow them to access the web page, view your notes and highlights, and add
their own annotations. All of this information is also saved online and can be accessed by any computer
or browser, including mobile phones with browsing capabilities.
Delicious
delicious.com
Delicious is a web service created to help you store, manage and share all or some of your collection of
bookmarks. Two of its powerful features are tagging and its ability to allow access to all of your
bookmarks from any computer with an internet connection.
Lefora
www.lefora.com
Lefora is a free discussion forum tool with no limits on the amount of posts or members in your forum.
Lefora allows you to run a public or fully private forum. On public forums, every topic has a button that
will allow your members to share a link to the topic on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. They
can even share links over email or IM. You can also easily add videos and photos to the forum.
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28. Links
WORKSHOPS (SLIDES & HANDOUTS)
The Digital Researcher (Vitae)
A workshop for researchers exploring the use of Web 2.0 in research, networks and building researchers
own profiles. Interactive sessions included microblogging, RSS feeds, social networking and social
citation sharing. Read or comment on the blog, catch up with the tweets (#DR10 hashtag) or download
the slides:
www.vitae.ac.uk/dr10 and www.vitae.ac.uk/dr11
Using Technology to Enhance Your Research (MHS Training Blog)
Explores the digital world and how researchers can use it to develop reputations through a digital
identity, literature managing and extending research connections.
researchtraining.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/using-technology-to-enhance-your-research/ and
researchtraining.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/21st-century-research-profiles-workshop/
Using Technology to Enhance Your Teaching (MHS Training Blog)
Explores how technology can be used in teaching and an evaluation of these tools.
researchtraining.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/using-technology-to-enhance-your-teaching/
Social Media Tools and Resources (University of Nottingham)
Explore the social, participatory and collaborative qualities of social media technologies. Includes a
summary of social media tools for publishing, content sharing, networking and collaboration, and an
extensive set of resources including tutorials, guides, videos, references and examples.
www.nottingham.ac.uk/jubileegraduatecentre/training-and-events/events-resources.phtml
ONLINE GUIDES & HOW TOS
Vitae PGR Tips – Using online resources in your research (issue 40) and Digital networking (issue 51)
One page monthly ebulletin offering tips and advice to PGR students on a host of topics. Advice often
relevant for all researchers.
www.vitae.ac.uk/pgrtips
JISC Web2.0 Practice Guides
Explains how technologies like Social Media, RSS, Collaborative Writing, Podcasting, can enhance
working practice. Each guide consists of a video explaining key concepts, supported by a more in-depth
overview of the topic, covering the potential uses, risks and how to get started.
web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/
A beginners guide to social media (Universities Affairs)
Advice from tech-savvy professors to give you the resources you need to start incorporating social
media into your teaching.
www.universityaffairs.ca/a-beginners-guide-to-social-media.aspx
7 Things You Should Know About Microblogging
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29. Provides information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and
describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters.
www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutMicro/174629
Tutorial on creating a blog (Wordpress or Blogger) and using RSS
emtechspring2008.pbworks.com/Tutorials
Plain English Resources (CommonCraft)
A series of short introductory videos to getting started with social media tools such as RSS, Twitter,
social media, and social networking.
RSS in Plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
Twitter in Plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
Social Media in Plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE
Social Networking in Plain English www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc
Podcasting www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMgemQahuFM
Citeulike: A Researcher's Social Bookmarking Service
An academic guide to using Citeulike a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references
online.
www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/emamy-cameron/
The Twitter Guidebook (Mashable the Social Media Guide)
Everything you need to know about getting started with Twitter and using it to build communities.
mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/
RESEARCH PRACTICE
JISC: Research 3.0 - How are digital technologies revolutionising research?
A year long project by JISC to debate how digital technologies are changing research practice.
www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2009/11/res3.aspx?utm
PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES
Why blog? (Dr Alan Cann)
www.microbiologybytes.com/AJC/whyblog.html
Why I'm keen on getting researchers to be more digital (Dr Tristram Hooley, Vitae Digital Researcher
Blog)
www.vitae.ac.uk/dr10blog
8 reasons why researchers should blog (Gareth Morris)
homelessinstoke.com/2010/02/22/8-reasons-why-researchers-should-blog/
Why do I bother? An academic's view of blogging (Learning with ‘e’s Blog)
steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2009/12/why-do-i-bother.html
Keeping your bibliography on the web (Vitae Research Staff Blog)
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30. www.vitae.ac.uk/rsblog
Using Blogging as a Research Tool (David Harrison)
www.stress-free.co.nz/using_blogging_as_a_research_tool
Adventures in Researcher Development 2.0 (Hum PGR Doc Blog)
pgrdocblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/adventures-in-researcher-development-2-0/
Blog Recommendations (Manchester Postgraduate Careers Blog)
manchesterpgcareers.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/blog-recommendations/
You are online even if you think you are not… (PGR Salford Blog)
www.pg.salford.ac.uk/blog/?p=506
Connect Project: How do you connect to people online? (Darcy Norman)
connect.darcynorman.net/
Digital Scholarship (Gideon Burton)
www.academicevolution.com/
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
It’s good to blog (Nature)
bit.ly/4sMUvv
From the Blogosphere (Nature)
www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7231/full/7231762c.html
Should you be tweeting? (Laura Bonetta)
tinyurl.com/yaj9cnh
How People are using Twitter during Conferences (Wolfgang Reinhardt, Martin Ebner, Gunter Beham,
Cristina Costa)
lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~i203/ebner/publication/09_edumedia.pdf
By the blog: academics tread carefully (THE)
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=403827
Web 2.0 fails to excite today's researchers (Research Information)
www.researchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=236
Universities use social media to connect (NY Times)
www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedsoc.html
Social networking in academia (Research Trends)
http://www.info.scopus.com/researchtrends/archive/RT16/09084_RT16lowres.pdf
The Conversation Prism: Making Sense of Social Media (Wikinomics)
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31. http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/10/27/the-conversation-prism-making-sense-of-
social-media
Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web
PLoS Comput Biol, Vol. 4, No. 10. (31 October 2008)
By Duncan Hull, Steve R. Pettifer, Douglas B. Kell
http://bit.ly/1dz7JT
TOOLS
PRESENTATION TOOLS
www.slideshare.net/
www.prezi.com
http://www.scivee.tv/ SciVee – Rich Media Scholarly Communication
BLOG & MICROBLOGGING TOOLS
wordpress.org/
twitter.com/
technorati.com/ (blog search engine)
blogs.nature.com/ (compile lists of blogs)
www.researchblogging.org/ (blogs about peer reviewed research)
scienceblogs.com/ (blogs about science)
RSS READERS
www.google.co.uk/ig
www.netvibes.com/
SOCIAL NETWORKS
www.linkedin.com/ (business-oriented social networking site)
www.academia.edu/ (find out who's researching what)
www.graduatejunction.net/ (early career researcher network)
https://www.researchgate.net/ (scientific network)
www.cos.com (Communities of Science: Free online professional profile, funding search, collaborator
search)
http://network.nature.com/ Nature Network
http://www.methodspace.com/ Method Space
www.ning.com Want your own social network? See
ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS
www.citeulike.org/
www.mendeley.com/
www.2collab.com
www.connotea.org/
www.bibsonomy.org/
MISCELLANEOUS
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32. www.getdropbox.com (Dropbox: Free online storage accessible in a Windows Explorer format, share
and edit files/folders with others without having to download them locally, great for collaboration)
www.google.com (More than just a search engine: Google Scholar, Google Docs, iGoogle homepage,
Picasa)
www.ted.com (World’s leading researchers and thinkers, great for inspiration and motivation, pick up
tips for public speaking)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books (PubMed bookshelf - Free online versions of many biomedical books)
www.jiscmail.ac.uk (enable groups of academics and support staff to talk to each other and to share
information)
http://www.jove.com/ Journal of Visualised Experiments (JoVE)
AND REFERENCES TO MORE TOOLS…
Web 2.0: Academic Research & 10 Useful Tools
scholarspace.jccc.edu/sidlit/23/
Web 2.0 for Academic Researchers
www.scribd.com/doc/22603454/Web-2-0-for-Academic-Researchers
Social Media Tools (University of Nottingham)
www.nottingham.ac.uk/jubileegraduatecentre/training-and-events/tools.phtml
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