Social Media reprezintă un trend tehnologic cu implicații majore inclusiv în zona de cercetare științifică, ușurând munca celor care își desfășoară activitatea în zona cercetării.
The International Centre for Guidance Studies s-a gândit deja la acest aspect și a realizat un ghid pentru cei care vor să intre în zona Social Media și nu știu de unde să pornească.
Resursele propuse sunt grupate în:
- Social bookmarking, news and social citation tools (ex. BibSonomy – www.bibsonomy.org, CiteULike – www.citeulike.com, delicious – www.delicious.com, Digg – http://digg.com/news)
- Social networking services (ex. Academia.edu – www.academia.edu, Facebook – www.facebook.com, Friendfeed – http://friendfeed.com, Graduate Junction – www.graduatejunction.net)
- Blogging and Microblogging tools (ex. Posterous – www.posterous.com, Tumblr – www.tumblr.com, Twitter – www.twitter.com, Typepad – www.typepad.com)
- Virtual worlds (ex. Second Life – http://secondlife.com, OpenSim – http://opensimulator.org, World of Warcraft – http://eu.battle.net/wow)
- Presentation sharing tools (ex. Scribd – www.scribd.com, SlideShare – www.slideshare.net, Sliderocket – www.sliderocket.com)
- Audio and Video tools (ex. Flickr – www.flickr.com, Justin tv – www.justin.tv, Livestream – www.livestream.com, Picasa – http://picasa.google.com)
- Examples of academic and research blogs (ex. Science in the Open – http://cameronneylon.net, Science of the Invisible – http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com, Stanford blog directory – http://blog.stanford.edu, Starting out in Science – http://begsci.wordpress.com)
- Project management, meeting and collaboration tools (ex. Bamboo – www.bamboosolutions.com, Basecamp – http://basecamphq.com, BigBlueButton – http://bigbluebutton.org, Citrix GotoMeeting – www.gotomeeting.com)
- Information management tools (ex. Google Reader – www.google.com/reader,
iGoogle – www.google.com/ig, Netvibes – www.netvibes.com, Pageflakes – www.pageflakes.com) - Research and writing collaboration tools (ex. Dropbox – www.dropbox.com, Google Docs – http://docs.google.com, PBworks – http://pbworks.com, Wetpaint – www.wetpaint.com)
- Location based tools (ex. Foursquare – http://foursquare.com, Gowalla – http://gowalla.com, Facebook Places – www.facebook.com/places)
Pagina principală a proiectului AICI. Resurse suplimentare mai jos.
- Social media: A guide for researchers
- Web materials 1: links and resources
- Web materials 2: researcher case studies
