The online life of Karon McBride

Hello!

Increasingly I find myself living my life online; I create, store and share files using web applications. This reduces my reliance on software installed on my machines, some of which require expensive licenses. As a result, it's cheaper and the tools and files I use on a regular basis are available from any machine (including my phone) and from just about anywhere I happen to be.

Here are some online productivity tools that I find useful:

• Evernote - text, voice and photo notes of things I need to remember.
• Citeulike for managing scholarly references
• Toodledoo for my To Do lists
• Diigo an information management tool that I use to collect, tag, annotate, organise and share the resources I find online
• Google Calendar
• Doodle - meeting scheduler

Online file storage and sharing

• Share your current reading interests and written documents with Scribd

• Share video reports and screencasts on YouTube
• SoundCloud is where I store and share audio files, although most files on SoundCloud are music files

Communications

Microblogging

To share short and tweet thoughts about your research interests, consider Twitter. My Twitter Page is where I tweet sporadically about technologies used for communications, research collaborations and learning.

Publishing an online journal (aka blogging)

Share your research with the World using Blogger - Google's blog publishing tool. For some reason Blogger blogs tend to appear nearer the top of google searches than other types of blog. An alternative is Wordpress.

My blogs

• Karon's Blog - my general blog
• Worked Examples - In this journal I explore the uses of web technologies to disseminate physics research
• Workshops, conferences and networking events - a PebblePad blog of work-related events I attend

But, I hear you cry, with all these blogs in different places, how will anyone find mine?
If you publish on arXiv, consider putting Trackbacks into your blog. Add your blog to Research Blogging - an online system that identifies and lists blogs about peer-reviewed research.

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