Over the last couple of years the BOU’s Steve Dudley has blogged on various aspects of social media, how researchers can get more from it for their research and career development and building a global online ornithological community. Here we bring all these articles together and will continue to add new items as and when they are posted.
Papers and poster presentations
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Twitter conferences as a low-carbon, far-reaching and inclusive way of communicating research in ornithology and ecology
Anthony Caravaggi, Agnes B. Olin, Kirsty A. Franklin & Steve P. Dudley
#TheTweetingBird: its rise relevance and impact in #ornithology
Steve Dudley’s #BES2018 poster
#TheTweetingBird: its rise relevance and impact in #ornithology
Steve Dudley’s IOCongress2018 poster
Blogging to promote your ornithology
Elwyn Sharps and Steve Dudley’s IOCongress2018 poster
Tweeting birds: social media promotes citations in ornithology
Royal Society Open Science Open Access paper by Tom Finch, Nina O’Hanlon and Steve Dudley
Tweeting birds: social media promotes citations in ornithology
Blog post about above Royal Society Open Science paper
Altmetrics: what are they good for? Do altmetrics contribute to citation rates in ornithology? | Steve Dudley, Tom Finch and Nina O’Hanlon’s AOSSCO17 poster
How social are ornithologists? – Steve Dudley & Jen Smart’s IBIS paper
How social are ornithologists? – Steve Dudley & Jen Smart’s NAOC2016 poster
The role of social media in ornithology – presentations from the BOU’s and RSPB Science’s #EOU2015 Round Table
Let the BOU work for YOU . . . series
Let the BOU work for YOU . . altmetrics
Let the BOU work for YOU . . with blogging
Let the BOU work for YOU . . on social media
Twitter Masterclass series
Twitter #masterclass 15 – Tag it!
Twitter #masterclass 14 – Twitter ‘threads’
Twitter #masterclass 13 – improve your profile
Twitter #masterclass 12 – best practices
Twitter #masterclass 11 – Twitter basics 3: replying to tweets
Twitter #masterclass 10 – Twitter basics 2: replying to tweets
Twitter #masterclass 9 – Twitter basics 1: terminology
Twitter #masterclass 8 – Conference tweeting
Twitter #masterclass 7 – Tweeting images – best practice
Twitter #masterclass 6 – #hashtag best practice
Twitter #masterclass 5 – Content is everything – even with only 140 characters
Twitter #masterclass 4 – organise your incoming tweets
Twitter #masterclass 3 – editing and structuring your tweets
Twitter #masterclass 2 – Ditch those auto generated tweets!
Twitter #masterclass 1 – #hashtags and retweeting
Other social media articles
Social media is relevant to your research
The benefits of blogging about your research
Making social media and the web work for you
Conference tweeting: what is it good for?
What do you mean you ‘don’t know how to optimize your paper for SEO?!’
Twitter – building an online ornithological community