[Sigmet-officers] Webinars

[Cassidy Sugimoto]

These both sound like great ideas!

In regards to pricing, we may want to consider doing separate pricing for
members and non-members (or free for ASIS&T members, but charging for non).
I would also like to see a "friendly" offer of providing ISSI members with
the member price.

Let me know if I can be of help with setting this up!

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Jason Priem <priem at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> **
> Sorry for the delayed reply. I'm ok with charging, since the Home Office
> will charge us...I also attended the meta-webinar, but don't recall the
> numbers; seems like we can recoup if we charge ~$10/head, which isn't
> really keeping many people out.
>
> I'd be happy to do a webinar on social media metrics/altmetrics. Seems
> like there might be some demand for it in the wake of the Chronicle piece
> today. How about something like:
>
> ------------------------------------------
> In increasing numbers, academics are turning to social media tools to
> enrich and speed their research workflows. As they do so, they are bringing
> new research impacts to light by moving discussions, bookmarks,
> annotations, and other uses from hallways and filing cabinets into the open
> Web. These alternative metrics or "altmetrics" offer the possibility of
> dramatically faster, richer metrics of impact on diverse audiences and may
> prove valuable complements to traditional citation measures.
>
> This webinar will begin by discussing the state of the art in research
> into alternative metrics. We'll present an overview of current knowledge
> about scholars using social media: their numbers, composition, behaviours,
> and motivations. Then we'll look more specifically into the research on
> alternative metrics, including potential data sources, ways of condensing
> and visualising, efforts to establish validity, and comparisons to citation
> metrics.
>
> We'll then review some of the free tools available online to gather and
> analyse altmetrics for articles, datasets, software, and other products,
> before wrapping up with a discussion of altmetrics' future and possible
> problems like gaming.
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Of course, if y'all don't see much interest in this, that's totally
> fine...I'm not trying to spam everyone with my goofy research :) Just
> thought I'd volunteer since there was some discussion of it earlier. And
> I'd love to hear any ideas for modification or changes if folks have 'em.
>
> Best,
> Jason
>
>
> On 01/27/2012 01:30 PM, Stasa Milojevic wrote:
>
>   Dear all,
>
> Happy New Year! Angela and Jason have been working on developing webinars.
>
> Here is what Angela had in mind:
>
> Preparing to Incorporate Visualizations into a *metrics Research Project
>
> Information Visualization has enormous potential for researchers.
> Visualizations can be employed within a research agenda both as an
> exploratory analysis tool to better understand trends in complex data
> sets (e.g., visual analytics) and also as a way of communicating the
> results of analyses to stakeholders and other members of the research
> community.  Determining the most appropriate visualization techniques
> and incorporating those techniques into a research project, however, can
> be daunting for novice visualizers.
>
> This webinar will approach Information Visualization from the
> perspective of researchers interested in incorporating visualizations
> into a research project within the fields of Bibliometrics, Citation
> Analysis, Scientometrics, Informetrics, Webometrics, etc.  The focus
> will be on developing an appropriate (novice) strategy for undertaking
> *metrics research-based visualizations.
>
> The webinar will begin by introducing attendees to techniques for
> establishing the most likely and appropriate candidate data sources for
> visualization, based both on a study's research questions and on the
> needs of potential audiences/stakeholders for the visualization.  The
> webinar will then address how to structure the development of the
> visualizations and will recommend techniques and software tools that can
> be used for various types of visualizations and data sources.
>
>
> I really like the idea and think it would attractive. She would be happy
> to have it in March.
>
> There is an issue of pricing. Jason expressed an interest in offering a
> free webinar. According to the information I got on "Webinar on
> Webinars" that would cost us $50.00. Angela would not mind charging for
> her webinar. Any thoughts on this?
>
> Best,
> Stasa
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> Jason Priem
> UNC Royster Fellow
> School of  Information and Library Science
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Cassidy R. Sugimoto, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~sugimoto
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