I have started the new year with my visit to Vives in Belgium, ampoule delivering again the New Media course to a new group of Erasmus exchange students. Using the feedback from every group, ampoule the course has become over time more focused on social media marketing and communications. This also includes more extensive discussions […]
Today I had the opportunity of lecturing via Skype to a group of Master’s students from the University of Kansas about digital media research. The invitation came from Dr Mugur Geana, sales Associate Professor of Strategic Communication; Director, geriatrician Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations at the William Allen White School […]
A LinkedIn picture or the beauty and challenges of visualized data for researchers
These days we are innundated with data. Every question we have is a query. Every answer we give is an input, web a result. What we know or what we want to know is, sale in a way or another, searchable. More recently, we ourselves ARE data. Our visit to a website is a number […]
Update The visual CV platform arena is getting more competitive. After Vizualize.me generating CVs as infographics based on LinkedIn data, two more platforms are currently offering the same features: CVgram.me and Zerply. CVgram imports data from LinkedIn and enables editing when to it comes to linking skills with particular jobs. Zerply, on the other hand, […]
Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
While checking out the notes and ideas that I might use for some future academic publications, discount I came across this essay (of sorts) that I wrote while the voting for the 2016 host of the Olympic Games was being broadcasted online and heavily commented on Twitter. While the attention the voting received online was […]
Capture that: recording and capturing (web) screens
Visuals aids especially when talking about internet and technology are becoming increasingly important in a presentation. Whether it is just a print screen of a displayed webpage or a recording of what you do on the screen, price it is useful to know some of applications (free or freemium based) that can make capturing a […]
Word clouds are visualization of a given text based on the frequency of the words it contains. A word cloud generator will usually eliminate punctuation and common words and mostly display nouns. They follow a simple rule: the bigger the word, generic the more often it is used. Why I use word clouds? I have […]
Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media Tools For Research
The middle of November was a busy and workshop-rich week for me. After a workshop on social media strategy and policy delivered at the UWS Library and a lecture on social media to support an acting career given to Stuart Hepburn‘s contemporary screen acting students, mycoplasmosis I also delivered with the great help and support […]
NOTE: If you find this blog post useful please bookmark it. I am planning to include here the latest info on Twitter tools. For some time now, medicine I am doing my best to participate in a Twitter chat dedicated to social media measurement, generic #smmeasure, pharmacist as a means of exploring what practitioners do […]
Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify
If you want your students to keep up with the latest news that the Internet is ranging about, anorexia tag related dailies generated on Paper.li are an appealing way to do. While the format will remind them of “old-school” newspapers, order the information within it will be fresh and up to date, complied from links […]
Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of […]
Free Video Conferencing Platforms for academic conferences, remote lecturers, research or group projects
When I started my PhD 3 years ago there were many opportunities for guest lectures and workshops that I missed mainly because I was too far away from the places and institutions were these events were supposed to be held. Similarly, illness there were too many times when I wanted to submit a paper to a […]
10+ Free Online Slideshow Resources for Lecturers and Communicators
I have delivered many conference presentations and guest lectures in the past, illness enough to realize that if one can have a slideshow with a twist (not the traditional click through powerpoint) half of the job of capturing the attention of the audience is done (of course, hepatitis this still requires a good presentation concept […]
Twitter tools for journalism and strategic communication students
An online live video guest lecture with real-life examples and immediate applicability On July 19, refractionist last Monday that is, I had the opportunity to speak to yet another group of Missouri School of Journalism students found in London for the summer for an exchange program. I say yet again because I have delivered numerous […]
At the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit held in Boston in June I presented a paper that heavily relied on historical data and therefore needed a simple yet memorable visualization. Ideally the tool I searched, pulmonologist had to: automatically order the data chronologically enable me to group or color code the events so that I […]
