EXAMPLEĭevonthink: A useful way to store and manage your work and related media. EXAMPLEĬoggle It: Collaborative mind-mapping tool.ĬoverItLive: Engage remote audiences during events.ĬreateSpace: Part of Amazon, helping you to self-publish all those books you’ve written.Ĭrowdbooster: Social media analytics tool to figure out what the hell is going on.ĭelicious: Revived social bookmarking site. Worth trying to see how it compares.ĬiteULike:A social bibliographic database for all your readings. Share them with friends.īuffer: A tool to help you manage your social media postings, it auto-schedules posts you just need to remember to keep it topped up.īundlr: Aggregates content from elsewhere, much like Pinterest. Uses face and object recognition to swiftly create a collage of several images.īitly: Save, search and organise all your links from around the web. EXAMPLEĪ: Share your papers, track their impact, follow colleagues.Īltmetric: Subscription-based tracker for your publications’ impact across different social media metrics.Īmazon Author Central: Create a profile page, add your authored books, link to social media, upload videos.ĪnswerGarden: A neat little tool used for real-time audience participation.Īudiense: Formerly SocialBro. Analytic tool and social media management platform.ĪutoCollage: Free Microsoft tool for use in teaching. It aggregates your social media content, giving you a stylish, one-page website. Thanks to those who’ve provided links and descriptions.”Ī: If you don’t have a website, then this is for you.
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If you want to follow on Twitter, we are using #socialmediaHE. All listed items are recommended by academics for use in their professional lives. “Everything listed here I have tried out.
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“This resource accompanies the Social Media News email list for academics and university support staff, sharing info about the latest platforms for use by academics in their professional lives. It will update periodically, but please also send meyour recommendations to add. Introduction by Andy Miah ( chair in science communication and future media at the University of Salford: Tips for academics: blogging and social media Why academics should care about social media If you think that we are missing anything, please let us know by tweeting social media resources We will strive to keep this page as up to date as possible. There are many, many tools, but we have tried to give an idea of how higher education professionals might use them. Times Higher Education has teamed up with Andy Miah, chair in science communication and future media at the University of Salford, to offer you the definitive guide to the social media tools available to academics, and how you can use them as you go about your scholarly work. Why should academics be using social media? And which social media should they be using? There are so many tools and networks that could be of potential use to scholars that it can be difficult to keep track.