Talking about social media and researchers at #bathcr
I'm giving a presentation on why researchers should use social media at #bathcr. This is an event/series of events that the University of Bath are organising to help their researchers get their heads round various social media related issues. I've been asked to talk because I co-wrote Social Media: A Guide for Researchers.
I'll be presenting some stuff from the publication and some other bits and pieces that I've gathered from elsewhere. I hope that people find it useful.
In this session I'm trying to concentrate on the big conceptual issues. The "why" of social media use rather than talking about tools. I think that people are generally able to puzzle out the tools, but less able to work out what the purpose or potential of it might be. I'm hoping that this presentation will inspire some experimentation rather than explain how to do.
