Follow our tweets on twitter

As we have been reporting, we have slightly changed the way that this blog is being disseminated. Instead of sending out a weekly email, we plan to let those that want to get an email subscribe to the feed, and we will also tweet content from this blog. To make it a little easier to …

Twitter and EMAIL: It’s the future!

As we have said in a recent post, the way we write and disseminate this blog is changing. This will be the last set of posts that will be disseminated via a weekly newsletter. If you want to follow the blog by EMAIL, please use the “Subscribe by email” option that is available on the …

R&KT Blog reaches a milestone (500 posts)

Since launching this blog in October 2012, we passed the 100th post on the 23rd January 2013 and the 250th post on 14th Aug 2013. We are delighted to say that this is the 500th post. This is fantastic achievement, and would not be possible without the support of everybody at UNMC. As you may …

Another UNMC First: Live Twitter feed at the U21 KWBN Global Citizenship Workshop

This post was contributed by Sean Matthews and Yeong Woon Chin, for Knowledge Without Borders Network/U21 Global Citizenship Workshop As the Vice-Provost for Research & Knowledge Transfer has already blogged about the U21 Global Citizenship live Twitter feed, which we ran throughout the event using the #U21GC hashtag (check it out!), it may be useful …

U21 KWBN Global Citizenship Workshop Breaks New Ground With Live Streaming of UNMC Events from Semenyih and KLTC venues

This post was contributed by Sean Matthews and Yeong Woon Chin There was a significant technological ‘first’ for UNMC during the recent U21 KWBN Global Citizenship Workshop, 13-14 March. We used the event to explore our live streaming capabilities, and achieved a successful and well-received feed for the session (the link has been taken down …

Twitter at the Global Citizenship Workshop

This week saw UNMC host, and organise, the Global Citizenship Workshop. Congratulations should go to all those involved. The sessions I attended were very good, and very well attended, and I hope that it is the catalyst for developing the various strands that were debated (and, of course scientific publications, but I have to say …

Get your message out there

We are doing some fantastic research and knowledge exchange at UNMC and it is important that we get the message out to a wider audience. The benefits of further dissemination are wide ranging. Not only does it raise your own profile and reputation beyond the academic world, but it only promotes the work that is …

Academic Life – Resources for aspiring (and established) academics

We recently came across an interesting blog, which you may find useful. It’s one of those blogs you come across and then spend the next hour browsing it! We’d also remind you to take a look at the various social media resources that are available at UNMC.  

Snapshot of Social Media

Last February we wrote a couple of posts (see Social Media: What to keep an eye on and More Social Media Contacts) that featured various people at UNMC and their social media interets. I thought it might be interesting to do a snapshot, just to see what people are talking about at the moment. So, …

More Social Media Contacts

In a previous post (there is also a Social Media category, which groups all of these posts together). Sean Matthews (and many thanks to him for providing the details) has provided a few more social media contacts that you might like to keep an eye on. https://twitter.com/uniofnottingham/uon-academics, is a Twitter list that holds details of …