A few items to comment on.<\/p>\n
First, my personal e-mail was sent a notification from twitter that suggested certain other organizations to follow, apparently based on my interest in figshare – the title of the e-mail was “Suggestions based on figshare”<\/p>\n
Twitter suggested “Similar to figshare” includes:<\/p>\n
Interesting to me that this is a mix of organizations and individuals – although “CameronNeylon” is “Advocacy Director for PLOS” and Mark Hahnel is creator of figshare<\/a> (Twitter sure is smart).<\/p>\n I’d be fascinated to know why Twitter recommended these to me – although I should point out that some of the science-centric twitter handles I follow are highlighted as followers. \u00a0For example, “Science Friday, DataONE, Aquatic Habitat, Figshare” and some others.<\/p>\n After logging in and clicking “And 17 others,” I can see the URL “https:\/\/twitter.com\/PLOS\/followers_you_follow”<\/p>\n Twitter defines that relationship as “I know them.”<\/p>\n So, substituting figshare for PLOS in the URL, let me load this:<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/figshare\/followers_you_follow<\/p>\n 7 for figshare compared to 17 for PLOS, out of my total personal network of \u00a0301 twitter handles (mostly related to ecology and environmental science) that I follow. Also of note is figshare now has 10,082 followers.<\/p>\n Next point: I would like to see if there are some other social network presences for figshare beyond the ones that figshare promotes (the main ones being facebook, google + and twitter as explored in earlier posts)<\/a>.<\/p>\n I did a basic Google search for “figshare AND linkedin” (without quotes).<\/p>\n This showed me that figshare has a slideshare account:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/figshare<\/p>\n With one slide presentation (20 slides) and 482 views, it seems primarily intended to route traffic to the main (promoted) sites.<\/p>\n This page does link to “LinkedIN” – and has 68 followers. \u00a0This is the lowest representation of any of the social network presences \u00a0– perhaps it shows a paucity of connections in the “business” environment? Or rather, that people who connect to open science social networks are more inclined to gravitate towards a social network ?<\/p>\n The most recent post was “8 hours ago” on October 8, 2013 – and is likely connected to facebook as the post of 8 hours ago mirrors another post of 8 hours ago. There is some interaction, evidenced by “likes” and comments on the linkedin presence.<\/p>\n An “insight” that Linkedin offers is what “People Also Viewed” – which lists the following:<\/p>\n This is a complete list.<\/p>\n Figshare also appears to have a vimeo:<\/p>\n http:\/\/vimeo.com\/figshare<\/a><\/p>\n 3 videos, 11 following.<\/p>\n Figshare also has a youtube:\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FigShare<\/a><\/p>\n Again, two videos with 28 followers, 565 views on “An introduction to figshare” and 101 views on the older, “FigShare – An introduction” posted two years ago.<\/p>\n At this point I’m satisfied that I’ve covered the social networks – or at least the ones that DataONE also uses (https:\/\/www.dataone.org\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n I believe it’s time to turn attention to scholarly articles to see what formal investigations have been conducted concerning use of figshare – or perhaps a meta-analysis of use of open science platforms (such as figshare) as evidenced by prevalence of unique URLs or citations within published literature. (Obviously PLOS would be a big one – but looking at some of the main databases from Elsevier, Proquest, and others).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few items to comment on. First, my personal e-mail was sent a notification from twitter that suggested certain other organizations to follow, apparently based on my interest in figshare – the title of the e-mail was “Suggestions based on figshare” Twitter suggested “Similar to figshare” includes: PLOS (@PLOS) Open Continue reading Who Follows Whom? Exploring Open Science Social Networks<\/span>\n