By using the social web to convey both scholarly and public attention of research outputs, altmetrics offer a much richer picture than traditional metrics based on exclusive citation database information.
Great presentation with some simple advice for academics and researchers about raising their online profiles, using open access and some colaborative tools.
A post about how Twitter differs from Facebook re networking. This post is from an entrepreneur's perspective, but there are parallels here for researchers and the most agile and adept researchers also use Twitter in much the same way.
PSRenamer is a program with a graphical interface that will easily rename a group of files for you. You can change file extensions, or any part of the file name. You can also assign a series of sequentially numbered file names, or replace certain characters with others. Preview and Undo functions are available.
PSRenamer is freeware. There is no registration fee required for use of the software.
Simple to use open source software that assists collaboration in workgroups. It isn't project management software, but certainly would help setting up responsibilities and storing/tracking contributions made by groups of researchers working together.
Social media trends for 2011 from HBR. Worth a look, even if you don't agree with many of them (like me). I do think these trends have a distorted bias towards business and that misses the point really. There is also a growing push-back against Facebook that is ignored by this analysis from the US.
This is becoming a useful blog portal for researchers and I think it is one well worth watching if you are even slightly interested in this world.
I was put onto it via academia.edu
Released in February 2011, this guide for researchers introduces some basics about how social media may be of use and highlights some basic social media tools.