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Tumblr is a growing social media platform that is a bit of a mix between Twitter, a blog and something like Flickr (as it is normally associated with images or short videos). It is suited to multiple platforms and cloud-based. It is a platform that may suit some researchers. Another multi-platform blog along similar lines is Posterous.

Graduate Junction is an online community connecting postgraduates who have similar academic interests. Graduate Junction aims to break down the interdisciplinary and institutional barriers that exist in academia and connect people based only on the work that they do and the interests that they have. Graduate Junction was founded in 2008 by two postgraduates at Durham University working alongside their own degree projects because they felt isolated in their own fields. When the first version of the Graduate Junction platform was launched it received support from postgraduates and academics alike. It has continued to grow with the community now containing almost 16,000 members. The community has continued to evolve over time with new functions and features added based upon suggestions from the community itself. All functionality added to the site since its launch has been requested by postgraduates. Despite having no external funding or support these changes have been made possible thanks to the time input of postgraduate volunteers, making Graduate Junction an entirely postgraduate-led initiative.

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.

Short article in SA about crowdsourcing (vice web-searching). Growing trend that is of interest to researchers.

A British Library exhibition site that is a really eye opening experience for researchers. I saw the exhibition in late 2011 when it was opening and it is pretty stunning.

Short article on growing use of social media by academics (vice traditional publishing). Also touches on frustration with peer review.

Interesting blog post re a growing and disturbing trend - academic spamming in the name of "open access publication". Read before you agree to any approach from InTech

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