Social media sessions Part 3: Advanced Twitter skills and a guide to blogs

Month 3 in my ongoing series, April built on some earlier skills and gave my colleagues and I a chance to talk about how blogging has evolved.

Advanced Twitter Skills

Building on the Twitter basic session, this session will provide more detailed advice and training on how to get the most out of Twitter for work purposes. Topics will include:

• How the Wellcome Trust uses Twitter
• Twitter Lists
• Tweetdeck, Hootsuite and other ‘power user’ Twitter apps
• Storify and other Twitter curation tools
• Statistics tools (e.g. Topsy)
• Advanced Twitter searching

Crib sheet: http://wellc.me/advancedtwitter

A Hitchhiker’s guide to blogs

The scientific community has taken to blogging in a big way, but just what are they doing. And with so many science blogs out there, where to start? Join a selection of the Trust’s best bloggers as we guide you through:

• What blogging is and how it has evolved
• A survey of the landscape of mainstream science blogging including the Guardian, Nature, Scientific American, Occam’s Typewriter and other blog networks.
• Good blogs to follow and basics of how to subscribe to them via RSS
• Key science, policy and medical history blogs to follow why we like them
• What the Wellcome Trust, Collection and Library are doing with blogs
• Basics of what we do and what other scientific institutions do (e.g. AMRC, CaSE, IoP, MRC, CRUK, BHF, Nature)

Featuring the picks of Danny Birchall (Web Editor, Wellcome Collection) and Ross Macfarlane (Blog Editor, Wellcome Library).

Crib sheet: http://wellc.me/hitchhikersblogs