Blogs and social media

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While not traditionally recognized as scholarly communication, some scholars use blogs and social media to share their research and engage with other researchers.

Blogging: Basics: Introduction to blogs, how to use them, their benefits, and why they are essential in modern communication.
Blogging platforms: An overview of various blogging platforms such as WordPress, Blogger, Ghost, etc. and what features each platform provides.
Social media: Basics: Introduction to social media sites, their significance in modern communication, and their different applications.
Types of social media platforms: An overview of various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc. and their different features and uses.
Social media strategy: The ways to develop and execute a social media strategy, how to use them to promote blogs and increase readership.
Content marketing: Discover the best content marketing practices to promote a blog, create brand awareness and get more traffic.
Search engine optimization (SEO): An introduction to SEO for blogs and content marketing, best practices, and how to increase your blog’s visibility online.
Blog design: Tips on how to design a blog, structure of blog and templates that can help you achieve better design.
Legal and ethical considerations: Understanding the ethical and legal considerations for blogs and social media platforms.
Analytics: Learn how to use analytics to track blog and social media site’s engagement, traffic, and growth.
Metrics for success: Learn how to measure the success of a blog and social media strategy.
Advanced blogging techniques: Advanced blogging techniques, such as storytelling, guest blogging, and content creation, email marketing, and influencer campaigns.
Social media policies: Learn how to develop and implement social media policies for your organization or brand.
Crisis management: Learn how to handle negative posts, how to respond to unhappy clients, and how to avoid online crises.
Future trends: Get an early glimpse of the emerging trends in blogging and social media such as video blogging, AI, and voice search.
Lifestyle Blogs: These are personal blogs that cover topics such as fashion, travel, food, and beauty.
Tech Blogs: Tech blogs focus on gadgets, applications, and developments in the tech and IT industries.
News and Journalism Blogs: These blogs cover breaking news, investigative reports, and analysis on current events.
Personal Blogs: These blogs are a reflection of the blogger's personality, interests, and life stories.
Niche Blogs: Niche blogs focus on a specific area, such as cars, gardening, pets, or home decor.
Business Blogs: Business blogs function as a platform to share industry news, insights, and tips relevant to the business.
Review Blogs: S: These blogs focus on product/service reviews, including movies, books, gadgets, among others.
Twitter: A microblogging platform that allows the users to express themselves through short-form content.
Facebook: A social networking site that allows the users to connect with friends, share images and videos, and engage in groups and communities.
LinkedIn: A professional networking site that allows users to connect with people in their industry, showcase their skills, and share industry news.
Instagram: A photo-sharing platform that allows users to share visual content, stories, and glimpses into their lives.
YouTube: A video-sharing platform that allows creators to share videos, tutorials, reviews, among other forms of content.
Pinterest: A visual search engine and social media platform that allows users to share images and content related to their interests.
TikTok: A short-form video sharing app that allows users to create, share and discover user-generated videos, generally, with music as the background.
- "Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional."
- "Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks."
- "It encompasses practices such as publishing open research, campaigning for open access, encouraging scientists to practice open-notebook science (such as openly sharing data and code), broader dissemination and engagement in science and generally making it easier to publish, access and communicate scientific knowledge."
- "Usage of the term varies substantially across disciplines, with a notable prevalence in the STEM disciplines."
- "Open research is often used quasi-synonymously to address the gap that the denotion of 'science' might have regarding an inclusion of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences."
- "The primary focus connecting all disciplines is the widespread uptake of new technologies and tools, and the underlying ecology of the production, dissemination and reception of knowledge from a research-based point-of-view."
- "Open science can be seen as a continuation of, rather than a revolution in, practices begun in the 17th century with the advent of the academic journal."
- "The conflict that led to the Open Science movement is between the desire of scientists to have access to shared resources versus the desire of individual entities to profit when other entities partake of their resources."
- "Additionally, the status of open access and resources that are available for its promotion are likely to differ from one field of academic inquiry to another."
- "An underlying open philosophy of sharing knowledge beyond research communities."
- "Encouraging scientists to practice open-notebook science, such as openly sharing data and code."
- "Broader dissemination and engagement in science and generally making it easier to publish, access and communicate scientific knowledge."
- "Scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination."
- "To make scientific research and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional."
- "Transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks."
- "Open science 'implicitly seems only to regard ‘scientific’ disciplines, whereas open scholarship can be considered to include research from the Arts and Humanities, as well as the different roles and practices that researchers perform as educators and communicators, and an underlying open philosophy of sharing knowledge beyond research communities.'"
- "When the societal demand for access to scientific knowledge reached a point at which it became necessary for groups of scientists to share resources with each other."
- "Publications, data, physical samples, and software."
- "Campaigning for open access."
- "The widespread uptake of new technologies and tools, and the underlying ecology of the production, dissemination and reception of knowledge."