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Friday, July 17, 2020

Thing 23: The final Thing - A review of the program

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In this Thing I will give a review of my experience of the program. Overall, I've found the 23 Things program a useful endeavour, having...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

Thing 22: Professional Websites

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Similarly to the previous post, this Thing is a rather short thing, and is about professional personal websites.  For self-employed individu...
Monday, July 13, 2020

Thing 21: *Research and EURAXESS

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This Thing is shorter than previous entries, and less general but it is still very useful to researchers.  The ' *Research Professional ...

Thing 20: File sharing and online storage

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In this Thing I will introduce some of the most common online file sharing platforms.  Working collaboratively has always been important for...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Thing 19: Online scheduling and polling

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This Thing is about the use of programs which allow for online scheduling and planning.  With the advent of wide and rapid social communicat...

Thing 18: Webinars, Whatsapp and Videoconferencing

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In this Thing I'm going to briefly mention three services that are commonly used for communication in the virtual world.  1. Webinars...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Thing 17: Crowd sourcing

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This Thing is about crowd sourcing for academic research. Within the last decade or two, with the advent of phones with decent cameras, an...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Thing 16: Bibliometrics

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This Thing is about Bibliometrics and their value in the research community. Bibliometrics are numerical indicators which are used for two...
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Thing 15: Open Access and Surrey Research Insight

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This Thing is about making academic papers freely available, rather than having them accessible only to journal subscribers, or giving acce...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Thing 14: Sharing research online

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In this Thing we will take a brief look at some online sharing sites, namely: Slideshare , Note & Point , and Speaker Deck . Each of the...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Thing 13: Data Presentation

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This thing is about data presentation. Data presentation is necessary as it can often be difficult to spot trends or patterns when looking...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Thing 12: Making and sharing media

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This things is about creating audio or video content using fairly simple tools that are readily available to most people with a PC. Video ...

Thing 11: Finding presentations and podcasts

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This Thing is about online learning content from presentations and podcasts. I really enjoy listening to TED talks ; they're often rea...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Thing 10: Exploring images online

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In this blog post we have been asked to take a look at some common online image sharing platforms, namely ; Flickr, Pinterest, and Instagram...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Thing 9: Exploring Wikipedia

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This Thing is about exploring Wikipedia; many who are my age will have memories of losing marks in their coursework for referencing or even ...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Thing 8: Creative commons licences

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For this Thing we have been encouraged to research 'creative commons licences', denoted by (cc). These licences can take s...

Thing 7: Reference management software - helpful or hindrance?

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As the title suggest, this Thing is about the use of reference management software, and  I'll admit straight away that I've not real...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Thing 6: A short discussion about academic networking profiles

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This Thing is about the use of academic networks such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Google Scholar. I've introduced my ResearchGate ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Thing 5: LinkedIn - a professional networking site

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This thing is aimed at developing the our LinkedIn pages. Since my last post, I've actually spent quite some time sorting out my page, ...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Thing 4: Our online presence

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This post is about presenting ourselves online and in social media! After searching my name in Google and Bing, I found that the most po...
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Friday, February 22, 2019

Thing 3: (Not really a Thing either)

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This, again, is another filler Thing - don't worry my next one will have a proper theme. For this Thing we were encouraged to read some ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Thing 2: (Not really a Thing)

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This thing isn't a thing one can really write a thing about; this thing involves registering my 23Things to a University of Surrey thing...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Thing 1: My first attempt at blogging

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So. This is blogging? Pretty new to me, but I've got to start somewhere! In this post I'm covering social media and my hopes for t...