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How to use the Web to find content for your talks, record them, share them with others and save them for future audiences. Also explains how to share it all for free and how to convert closed formats into open ones by using the Web. A really useful review of mostly free software.

 A new platform to allow virtually anyone to create data visualizations

ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool. Video content ranges from conference recordings, to interviews, documentaries, webinars, and tutorials. ScienceStage, as its slogan suggests, also functions as a 'hub' by creating a meta-layer that enables the networking of both users (individuals and groups) and content (video, audio, and documents), which forms an integrated multimedia and social networking platform for scientists.

Quora's service allows users to ask questions and give answers. Additionally, users can comment on the questions and answers and "upvote" or "downvote" the answers. An "Answer Summary" can be created to reflect the consensus of the community. This summary is a wiki that can be edited by any registered user.

This is a free tool for creating custom video playlists

Creating a digital identity for PhDs.

The RIN has completed a second series of case studies to provide a detailed analysis of how humanities' researchers discover, use, create and manage their information resources.