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What is a Social Network?
A social network is an online service for communities of people who
share an interest with one another to collaborate. A social network service focuses on building online communities of
people who share interests and activities, or who are interested inexploring the interests and activities of others. Most social networkservices are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to
interact, such as email and instant messaging services (Wikipedia).
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Social Networking Directions
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Social Networking
Universities and Social Networking.http://www.slideshare.net/sparkbouy/universities-and-social-networking/
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Typology of social networks
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Social Networking in E-Learning
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Boyd and Ellison (2007) define social networks asweb-based services that allow individuals to.
1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system.
2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection.
3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by otherswithin the system. The nature and nomenclature of theseconnections may vary from site to site.
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The first officially recognized social network was sixdegrees.com that
launched in 1997 and officially shut down in 2000. According to theWharton School of Business, as of October 2008 social networks impactedmore than 230 million people worldwide.
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What is Academia
Academia.edu is a free social networking website andcollaboration tool aimed at academics and researchers fromall disciplines.
It is a platform for academics to share and follow research.
Academics sign up, and upload their research (papers, talks).They follow other academics and get a News Feed of thelatest research in their field.
Launched in September 2008.
It became one of the largest social networking sites foracademics in 2010
Source: Wikipedia
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Academia.edu helps you:
Follow the latest research in your field
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Interface
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How to get started.
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Join a growing community Academia
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Signup
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Confirmation Process
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Steps to complete
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Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million To HelpResearchers Connect With Each Other
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/academia-edu-raises-1-6-million-to-help-researchers-connect-with-each-other/
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Statistics by graph
Source: www.compete.com
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Features
The News Feed on the homepage, loads faster when we logged in. On News Feed we can see the latest people, papers and status
updates in our research areas.
we can like and comment on status updates, and other News Feedstories.
we can see extra information about the search keywords people useto find on our page like our rank on the search engine for thatkeyword, and the country where the search came from
There is also a new and better interface for editing of our researchinterests that we want.
One Follow link that helps to follow people in your research area,Following someone means that you will get their updates in yourNews Feed.
Research Interest tree enabling people to re-organize the researchinterest tree, so that people can move around research interests to
their correct places. It social Networking site for scholars and scientists.
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Value of Academia.edu
Freely available Helps people in the academic environment find/connect
/network to others with similar interests
Communities of Practice form around different fields of
interest Helps people keep track of developments in their specific
research area
Provides a platform where each librarian/informationspecialist can maintain their own academic web page wherethey list their research interests, upload their resumes,publications, presentations etc.
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Conclusion
I have found Academia.edu best social networking site foracademics or people working in an academic environment. I joined this site to share my personal experience related myscientific work and research. This gave me latest
technological ideas to present myself on Academia. So if anybody who want to share his/her scientific or academic relatedideas and want to expand his/her technical research thenAcademia.edu can address these issues.
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References
www.Academia.edu www.wikipedia.org
www.compete.com
http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/academia-edu-raises-1-6-million-
to-help-researchers-connect-with-each-other/ http://www.slideshare.net/sparkbouy/universities-and-social-
networking/