Due to popular demand earlier in the year, we’ve decided to run more lunchtime workshops on using the web more effectively to support your research.
The workshops give you the opportunity to find out how free and easy-to-use web technologies can improve the way you search for articles and funding opportunities. You’ll also find out how [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
Working Smarter with the Web – More Workshops
Play Games on Facebook (and take part in research into social networking behaviour)
Ben Kirman of LiSC (Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre) writes:
Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre have created two Facebook games that are being used to research social behaviour on Facebook. Everyone is invited:
Familiars is a game that finds out what your “animal companion” would be based on your Facebook activity: http://apps.facebook.com/familiar
Familiars are the animals that represent your [...]
Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve your Research
Title: Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve your Research
Location: Computing Services Training Room 1, MAB, Brayford Campus
Date: 18th Feb 2009
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 13:30
Portal Page: Click here
Description: This workshop aims to help academic and research staff improve their research by making better use of the web.
Do you want to:
improve the way you search for funding information?
improve [...]
More Social Networks for Researchers
Last week I pointed you in the direction of academia.edu, which has created a global “tree” of academic institutions and departments. Nature Network is a similar social networking tool, but this time aimed at researchers working in the environment, physical and life sciences:
Nature Network
Signing up for the service is free. Once you’ve got a username [...]
Academia.edu – Social Networking for Academics
This recently launched website aims to enable academics from around the world to keep in touch and stay up to date with the latest research in their field:
www.academia.edu
I’ve added the University of Lincoln to the “tree” of research institutions, which also includes Cambridge, Oxford, and MIT. Once you add yourself and choose your research interest(s), [...]
