I think for me Facebook will always be a strictly personal thing, never professional. It is a useful tool, fun, a great way to bring people together. But it is where I go when I am not in work mode, so that is the way it will stay for now. The nearest I would ever come is exchange of research ideas with someone who is already a friend, rather than a colleague. Twitter, I am less fussed about personally. But I still find it fundamentally limited for idea exchange. Where I think I can get the most out of twitter is as a reminder service for things which are happening – it was very useful when I was at ICACC to keep track of events going on I wanted to participate in.
Image sharing, I am also sceptical of. A lot of my work has been commercially focused – sharing images is not something I can do on a whim, because the more interesting an image is, the less likely it is that it is totally academic in interest. This is a pity, since pictures can be eye grabbing in a way otherwise seemingly near-identical social media profiles are not.
The thing that most interested me in the ‘things’ this blog post covers are storify and the like. In the future, I may be organising events which are about communication, sales or awareness. The facilities offered by these sites could be a massive aid as a promotional tool for events of this type. The format seems to give a nice degree of balance between images and context, presenting a cohesive, engaging whole. It is in my bookmarks and toolbox for the future.
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