Due to popular demand earlier in the year, we’ve decided to run more lunchtime workshops on using the web more effectively to support your research.

The workshops give you the opportunity to find out how free and easy-to-use web technologies can improve the way you search for articles and funding opportunities. You’ll also find out how blogging can help you promote and discuss your research, and other ways to collaborate with other researchers on a single document without emailing each other incremental changes on Microsoft Word documents.

The workshops will delivered by myself, Joss Winn (CERD) and Paul Stainthorp (LLR). If you’re interested, you’ll need to book through HR – see below.

Title: Working Smarter with the Web: Workshops to Improve your Research

Location: Computing Services Training Room 1, MAB, Brayford Campus

Dates: 16th Sept, 14th Oct, 11th Nov 2009

Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 13:30

Portal Pages: September, October, November

Description: This workshop aims to help academic and research staff improve their research by making better use of the web.

Do you want to:

• improve the way you search for funding information?
• improve the way you receive and organise information about research and funding?
• find out about ways to make research collaboration, networking and manuscript production with others more effective and efficient?
• find out how to connect and find others with shared research interests?

If you have answered yes to one or more of these questions than this workshop is for you!

In this hour-long session we will show you how free and easy-to-use web-based tools such as RSS, social bookmarking, blogs and wikis can help you quickly complete otherwise time consuming or laborious tasks, e.g. searching for and organising research funding opportunities. We will also explain how to use social media to promote your research and easily connect with other like-minded researchers around the world.

Individuals from all disciplines with any research interests/activities are encouraged to attend.

The course will be held on 16th September, 14th October and 11th November in Computing Services Training Room 1, 1st floor MAB at 12.00.

Space is limited so to book your place please email training@lincoln.ac.uk.

Recommended preparation:

If you have a spare 15 minutes before the session, why not watch a few of these brief, informative videos. We will be covering some of these topics in the presentation and showing how they can help you in your research career. Come prepared with questions:

RSS In Plain English
Social Media In Plain English
Social Bookmarking In Plain English
Wikis In Plain English
Blogs In Plain English

If you want to find out more, read this JISC report to see how web 2.0 technologies are impacting the HE sector now:

JISC Report: What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education