Mindmapping & visualisation tool for sharing visual ideas.

Free, browser-based easy-to-use tool to help collect, organize/sort, search, cite, and share research sources.

Cloud-based service that facilitates saving, organising & sharing of references. Export to, import from desktop reference managers.

Free professional network for scientists. Has useful tools to help - Connect and Communicate: Interact with fellow researchers and build your scientific network. Share and Collaborate: Post updates, discuss methods and co-edit with colleagues. Discover: Download full-text papers, find conferences and scientific jobs.

This pulls in feeds from others who blog about peer-reviewed research. Makes it easy for your readers - and others from around the world - to find your serious posts about academic research.

Offers both private and public social networks focussed on medical research scientists.

a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Automatically generate bibliographies Collaborate easily with other researchers online Easily import papers from other research software Find relevant papers based on what you're reading Access your papers from anywhere online Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app

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.

Science-focussed community with features like forums, Q&A, groups, etc. Includes a PhD students' forum. Community, collaboration, exploration/search.

Labmeeting's mission is to help researchers work more efficiently. It offers researchers a web service to organize, collect, and share scientific papers.

Graphic representing differences & similarities between Facebook & Twitter.

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.

Allows for creation, collaboration and sharing of documents combining the powers of Google Apps with Microsoft Office.

Feedback collection platform. Can be used to gather community input to innovation.

Great article about the power of Twitter (not just for media organisations).

Short interesting article that urges authors of research papers to take them to the next level and treat them as Open Source software.

Nice concept for diary research http://www.7daysinmylife.com/wordpress/ #UX #UserResearch

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.