Twitter piloting free data access for researchers
Twitter: “we’re introducing a pilot project we’re calling Twitter Data Grants, through which we’ll give a handful of research institutions access to our public and historical data.”
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Twitter provides proof of real-time engagement with the public: How to record it as evidence
Increasing staff are required to provide evidence of the impact of their research. Twitter can be a useful channel to track reaction, but do you have a strategy for recording this evidence. I provide some suggestions
Are you a researcher, do you want to be paid up to £3000 a year to attend conferences?
This press release arrived landed in my inbox and looks like a good deal: If you use software in your research and you have a good understanding of what’s happening […]
British Library and Microsoft Announce Online Platform for Collaborative Research
The British Library and Microsoft Research have worked in partnership to design and develop a ‘virtual research environment’ that will provide a single easy-to-use interface enabling research teams to work […]
Edinburgh College of Art Launches its ‘Vision’ of Academic Research
On Monday (16 November 2009) the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) launched ‘Vision’, a new publication about its current and future research projects. ECA has a strong history of ground-breaking […]
JISC Celebrates 15 years of Open Access
As part of International Open Access Week (October 19 – 23, 2009) JISC is today launching a definitive guide to its 15 years of work in Open Access, tracking the […]
National (Unsatisfied) Student Survey 2009 – The Scottish Picture
The National Student Survey results has been published by HEFCE which has no doubt left school/department managers burning the midnight oil to see how they have faired. Feedback remains to […]
Twitter integration for marketing higher education
Recently I’ve been rediscovering twitter, this was largely instigated by the discovery of a nice little application which allows me to monitor tweets from the comfort of my desktop. The […]
Digital Student – More than Web 2.0
Yesterday (Tue. 2nd Dec ’08) saw the publication of the JISC sponsored Guardian Supplement – Digital Student highlighting the experiences and expectations of students in and entering higher education. This […]
Mobile Internet, Mobile Life, Mobile Learning
Last month I commented on the growth in the Mobile Internet. More evidence of this was revealed on Monday (24th Nov ’08) when Neilson Online published the first results from […]