Yesterday I presented a seminar to my fellow UQ PhD students about how social media can be used as a research and collaboration tool, based on my own experiences.
It was a fairly low-key, off-the-cuff presentation, but I duly uploaded it to Slideshare and posted a link to it on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (the main platforms my presentation was talking about). Overnight it has picked up nearly 180 views and was featured on Slideshare’s “Hot on Facebook” and “Hot on LinkedIn” pages. I confess I don’t really know what that means but it sounds good and it’s nice to see there was some interest in it!
The main thrust of the presentation is comparing and contrasting the networking merits of Facebook (which I called “closed networking”), Twitter (“open networking”) and LinkedIn (“strategic networking”), as well as the value of blogging to a PhD student. It also includes a brief case study of how I used social media to recruit a participant sample for the first phase of my PhD research.