People are looking to leave Twitter, but where can they go to?
Tag - Social Media
Guillaume Lobet
Twitter for Science Networking
Suddenly can't network at conferences? How could you network on Twitter?
Alun Salt
Headliner Video, a podcast tool that could help botanists produce video
One of the problems botanists have creating social video is a lot of the time the subject is static. Headliner Video is a tool that helps with that problem.
Should You Tweet Posters from a Conference?
Pat raised an interesting point while he was at the International Botanical Congress in Shenzhen. Should you tweet whole posters from a conference? I think I also saw a passive-aggressive complaint about people...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison
Launching ‘Botany Live’: a global online event to celebrate ‘Fascination of Plants Day 2017’
What do you think of when you think of plants?
Anne Osterrieder
How notifications on Twitter and Facebook can help you to keep up to date with plant science news
We asked our social media-savvy work experience student Alexandra Boliver-Brown to put together a guide for our readers on how to stay up to date with your favourite plant science news site. Incidentally, her favourite...
Alexandra Boliver-Brown
What are the ethics of live-streaming at conferences?
If you've only recently come to terms with people tweeting at conferences, there's another shock coming soon.
What can you do with a photo of a Gray Ghost?
Sometimes a paper comes with an image that deserves more attention. What can you do with images that should be shared? We're adding a Pinterest account.
Botanists need to be more sociable…
Whether educators like it or not, it's clear that having been brought up on digital/social media tools, students expect to see them used in botany teaching
Nigel Chaffey
For the anti-social media user in your life
If you ever want to justify your Facebook habit then you can now cite Osterrieder 2013 thanks to the paper The value and use of social media as communication tool in the plant sciences released with Open Access in Plant...
Social media tips and tools for scientists
Should scientists use social media for work purposes? What types of content can researchers put online and how can they make it reach even further? How to engage students via Twitter? How do you manage information...
Bigging-up the AoB Blog [or, Cann can – and does!]
The communication of science (and particularly discussion thereof and thereon, which often takes the form of post-publication review) has many opportunities in this electronic age. One such outlet is the plethora of...
That first University lecture on biological sciences
What to tell new Biological Science students in their first lecture? We are drowning in high-quality information, but need to teach how to find and evaluate information, and what to do with it. Social media now plays a...
RockMelt: First Thoughts
I use different browsers for different things. My online banking is through Safari. My work is increasingly on Chrome, though I also use Camino for AoBBlog. Opera is the browser I use for home, but not for Facebook...
