A presentation for colleagues in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
A massive thank you to my Twitter network. I can't think of a better way to convey the value of social media than this!
8. We all have something to say
and something to share
9. Building a SSAP ‘Twitterati’
1. Follow @SSAPChat
http://twitter.com/ssapchat
2. Tweet and include #SSAPChat
3. Share colleagues’ work with your
networks please retweet!
10. “If (social media interaction is often) then
(Open access + social media = increased downloads)”
Melissa Terras (2012)
Social media, research citations and impact
11. We need to aggregate, curate, and
narrate our content
using our website and SSAP blogs as a
central space
13. Resources
• Twitter Guide (LSE) http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/files/2011/11/Published-
Twitter_Guide_Sept_2011.pdf
• How to build a presence on Twitter (ESRC) http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-
and-guidance/impact-toolkit/tools/interactive-media/twitter/build-twitter-presence.aspx
• A to Z of social media for academics (Andy Miah)
http://www.andymiah.net/2012/12/30/the-a-to-z-of-social-media-for-academics/
• Playing with Altmetrics (Research Whisperer)
https://theresearchwhisperer.wordpress.com/tag/alt-metrics/
• Altmetrics Guide (UWS) https://library.uws.edu.au/uws_library/researchers/measuring-
impact/altmetrics
• Altmetrics Guide (QUT)
http://libguides.library.qut.edu.au/content.php?pid=83906&sid=3394245
• Altmetric Bookmarklet http://www.altmetric.com/bookmarklet.php
• Eysenbach (2011) Can Tweets Predict Citations?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278109/
14. Social media for sharing research*
Twitter wrote this talk
@jennacondie
Flickr: mkhmarketing
*Massive thank you to my tweeps
Editor's Notes
Impressions 2,802 number of times users saw the Tweet on Twitter
Engagements 155 number of times users interacted with the Tweet