[Sigmet-officers] Webinars

[Jason Priem]

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:

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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.
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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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