“Social media is an important technological trend that has big implications for how researchers (and people in general) communicate and collaborate. Researchers have a huge amount to gain from engaging with social media in various aspects of their work. This guide has been produced by the International Centre for Guidance Studies, and aims to provide the information needed to make an informed decision about using social media and select from the vast range of tools that are available”
Not only is it a very useful guide but it features our very own Chris Jobling, whose Fresh and Crispy blog is listed as an example of academic research blogs in the Links and resources section http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1009
Thanks to Katrina Dalziel @dalziel1 for the highlighting the guide
You can find the full guide here –
http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
Thanks for the mention Chris. I also posted a link here: http://blog.cpjobling.org/2011/02/social-media-guide-for-researchers.html just in case!