Tools for good research

Twitter

Twitter is seen as a prime place for professional networking, for news and updates for use as a backchannel in conferences and for real-time chats using hashtags.

Diigo

Diigo is a social bookmarking, research and knowledge sharing tool. It lets you make personal notes and highlight text on web pages and share them with others.

Google Docs/Drive

You can use Google Docs to create personal documents, spreadsheets, slidesets, as well as share them with others or work collaboratively on them.

Pinterest

This visual bookmarking site has proved very popular as a way of saving images together with links to resources.

Blogger

Google-owned Blogger is still seen as a quick and easy way to start and maintain a blog.

Feedly

Feedly is an RSS reader that lets you organise, read and share the content of your favourite sites. It is now the only dedicated feed reader on the list.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature.