Research Guides: Social Media for Research and Scholarly Communication: Network

Learn and Promote

reddit
News sharing site where users collectively determine top stories by "up-" or "down-voting" each item. Subscribe to "subreddits" (topic categories) pertaining to your interests. Especially effective for promoting research findings.
Twitter
Social network best suited to learn and promote research news. Post brief descriptions and links and follow colleagues and pertinent topics.
Slack
Using Internet relay chat (IRC) to facilitate communication & messaging in the form of text. Allows for community building and workplace exchanges and is fully searchable and can serve conferences and large groups.