Like the idea of Facebook University?
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) last week published an article on the possibility of Facebook, Google and other tech companies offering degrees in the UK. Not as outlandish as…
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Reflections on the 1:AM altmetrics conference
I recently attended 1:AM, the first altmetrics conference, and I am still considering what I learnt from the various perspectives presented by publishers, funders, policy makers, librarians, and researchers. One…
Conference Twitter overwhelm, is it just me?
I was at a conference recently that was actively promoting the use of social media including Twitter. Most conferences do these days it seems. It was a good opportunity to…
Proliferation of researcher profiles
As a research active academic I publish papers and engage in other research activities that hopefully have some impact. Just what that impact is and how to measure it will…