Social Media

@rdmpage

@SciVE_Glasgow

Google Plus

LinkedIn

Blogging

Facebook

Twitter

Facebook

Blogging

@cboettig

http://www.carlboettiger.info/2012/09/28/Welcome-to-my-lab-notebook.html

http://iphylo.blogspot.com

Blogs can lead to conversations

Twitter

Some serious people & organisations are on Twitter

@carlzimmer (Science journalist)

@NERCscience (research council)

@figshare (share research results)

@spotonLondon (formerly Science Online London)

Twitter conventions

• @ username

• RT “retweet”

• # hashtags

• #FF “follow Friday” #icanhazpdf

Uses for Twitter

• Conversation/eavesdropping

• Conference broadcasting (using hashtags)

• Attracting attention for a project/idea

• Asking for help

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisfreeland/3585077865/

Branding

(by default, if sometime starts talking about “branding” I want to smack them)

Branding as consistent identity

@rdmpage

http://www.linkedin.com/in/rdmpage

http://www.facebook.com/rdmpage

http://iphylo.blogspot.com/ (doh!)

klout.com/rdmpage(nobody knows what the Klout score means…)

IMHO

• LinkedIn is your online CV

• Facebook is for “friends”

• Blogging is for recording ideas, thoughts, opinions (and engaging in debate)

• Twitter is for conversation and discovery