[Sigmet-officers] Webinar - Jason

[Judit Bar-Ilan]

Dear All,

This webinar looks great to me.

Regards,
Judit

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:00 PM, sigmet-officers-request at asis.org <
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> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:55:10 -0500
> From: Jason Priem <priem at email.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Sigmet-officers] Webinars
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> 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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