Borrowing from the presentation styles of "Meet Henry" and "Meet Charlie", "Meet Alex" is an aspirational and inspirational presentation on how Web 2.0 technologies could be used to support, supplement or even enhance tradtional research practices to create a new form that I have dubbed as "Research 2.0"
12. so Alex has to find ways of working in a global research community, in different time zone's with her colleagues, students and people she has never met …
14. Alex subscribes to his blog via an RSS feed She feels like she knows him really well, and always knows what he’s thinking and where his research is heading. she’s never met her research partner in person
15. her colleagues subscribe to it via an RSS feed her students subscribe to it via an RSS feed 126 people she doesn’t know subscribe to it via an RSS feed they all feel like they know her and her research really well Alex also has a research blog
16. Alex uses Netvibes to keep up-to-date with current research …
17. she also uses Connotea to store her research references … she stores references for books , journals and websites to share with team members online she is able to assign tags to references for easy search & retrieval Alex can see what other references people have added online
18. … and BaseCamp to manage her research project … she assigns tasks & deadlines to team members online team members communicate & check off tasks online Alex monitor’s progress and workload online
19. Alex likes tools like Netvibes, Connotea and BaseCamp because they are lightweight , easy to use and quick … oh and they have RSS … No training needed for new team members – just sign up and go!
20. Alex uses the University wiki … a lot the wiki is accessible and editable by everyone at the University
21. to create their own academic papers & articles she encourages her students and colleagues to use the University wiki …
22. that’s less work for Alex … … and empowerment for the users collaborative documentation …
23. Alex stores & tags all her bookmarks on Delicious … everyone can see them … and she can see everyone else’s
24. her tags highlight her interests & stuff she’s keeping an eye on she can see who else is interested in the same things by exploring tags
25. Alex’s research partners & students use the same Social Bookmarking application … … they subscribe to each others tag feeds via RSS
26. Alex stores & tags all her pictures on Flickr … again everyone can see them … and she can see everyone else’s , again it’s via RSS