English

Social Networking: An astronomer's field guide

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2009-03-03 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

We present a brief introduction to the phenomenon of "social networking" and its potentially powerful use as an astronomy outreach and educational tool. We briefly discuss the development of applications for websites and facebook and the use of web trackers e.g. Google Analytics to analyze your audience. Finally we discuss how social bookmarking can be used to promote your work to unexpected audiences.

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@article{arxiv.0903.0266,
  title  = {Social Networking: An astronomer's field guide},
  author = {E. L. Gomez and H. L. Gomez and J. Yardley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0266},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, conference

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