Presentations & Publications
On this page you will find a regularly updated list of forthcoming Presentations & Publications and links/embeds of previous appearances. As of the first issue of 2012 I will also be editing the Social Media section of BITS.
Upcoming Presentations & Publications
- May 2012 – Book chapter “Support for users within an educational or e-learning context” will be published in the forthcoming volume – “User Studies for Digital Library Development” (full details to come).
- 20th June 2012 – Live blogging & social media amplification of the EDINA GeoForum in York.
- 9th – 13th July 2012 – Live blogging & broader social media amplification of the Open Repositories 2012 Conference, for which I am part of the Host Organising Committee.
- Semester 1, 2012-2013 – Course Leader for the 10 credit “The Role of Social Media in Science Communication and Public Engagement” module for the new MSc in Science Communication and Public Engagement (apply here!) at the University of Edinburgh.
Recent Presentations & Publications
- 26th April 2012 - Engaging with the Past, case study presentation for the Edinburgh Beltane Networking Breakfast: Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
- 28th-29th March 2012 – Guest host/moderator for CIG e-forum on social media in the cataloguing community - click through to find out how to join us for this open two-day social media discussion.
- 21st March 2012 – Social Media at EDINA presentation for the EDINA Management Board.
- 13th March 2012 - Tweet Dreams Are Made of This [Exclusive KE Remix] presentation on Twitter and Prezi for the University of Edinburgh College of Humanities and Social Sciences’ Knowledge Exchange Group.
- 7th March 2012 – Live blogging and amplification of the JISC GECO “Geospatial in the Cultural Heritage domain, past, present and future” (#geocult) event taking place in London.
- 2nd March 2012 – Invited presentation on Developments in Web 2.0 “This Talk is Meta (and so is this title)” for the Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland Metadata and Web 2.0 Seminar at the National Library of Scotland. See also my liveblog of the day.
- 24th February 2012 - Mastering Social Media Workshop for the Institute for Academic Development as part of the University of Edinburgh Innovative Learning Week. Prezi available here.
- 22nd February 2012 – Guest speaker for the Information Literacies for Online Learning (ILOL) module of the University of Edinburgh MSc in eLearning.
- 8th February 2012 - How to Use Linkedin to Start Your Career - presentation as part of a University of Edinburgh Careers Service workshop for students.
- 19th January 2012 – Talk and participation in expert panel for “Social Media: How to Get Your Message Across” event (#socialstempra) arranged by Stempra Scotland at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, Edinburgh.
- 18th January 2012 – “Tweet Dreams Are Made of This” a revised repeat of my IT Futures Conference 2011 talk, this time for the Edinburgh University Students Association Staff Representation Team.
- 10th January 2012 – “Using social media in education, Part 2: Tools, support, and technical issues” article for IBM developerWorks.
- 20th December 2011 – “Using social media in education, Part 1: Opportunity, risk, and policy” article for IBM developerWorks.
Previous Presentations and Publications
