Category Archives: Social Media

SSRN Celebrates 20 Years

It is hard to believe SSRN began two decades ago. And today, SSRN has become something beyond our dreams. Mike Jensen shared his thoughts on this milestone and our commitments to all of you. In light of our anniversary and we thought we’d share wear the love. Head over to our Facebook page or Twitter [...]
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Information Overabundance: What We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know

A few months ago, Peter Shepherd, Project Director at Project COUNTER, asked me to contribute an article to Against The Grain (librarians, publishers and vendors) for their Special Issue on Metrics – The Importance of Being Measured. I wrote about article level metrics at SSRN and how we view the changing world of information overabundance.  [...]
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Libraries: Keeping It Real

via I was at MIT a few days ago and had the opportunity to participate in Erik Brynjolfsson‘s class at Sloan School of Management. It was a fun class.  We discussed the early days of SSRN, bundled services, and electronic resources in general. During the conversation, I asked the MBA students if they knew where [...]
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Share SSRN through Facebook and Twitter

We recently expanded the Share functionality on the top of our abstract pages by adding Facebook and Twitter to the Digg, Delicious, and CiteULike options.  Our community asked for the ability to easily post or tweet about research that was important to them and has already created thousands of SSRN links on Facebook and Twitter. [...]
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Keeping Up with the Cyber Current

From Octane magazine: “Keeping Up With the Cyber Current”: In the June 2009 issue of Octane, Entrepreneurial Organization’s quarterly magazine, I outlined SSRN’s “three-step approach” to expanding our online presence through social media.  The approach is an ongoing process that allows us to evolve and accommodate the needs of our users as technology evolves.  As part [...]
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Differing Views of Social Media

Richard Stacy had an interesting blog post about journalism and the sanctity of publication. In this post he discusses the indignant attitude of journalists as it relates to the social media and how traditional journalists view traditional publications as the only forms of discourse to be valued. I am excited that we are seeing a [...]
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Is it really a Brave NOW World?

“Brave NOW World” was the theme at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting in Baltimore last week where several ideas were presented for new publishing models and technologies. Geoffrey Bilder (CrossRef) returned this year proselytizing the same model he presented at last year’s meeting. In his usual dry, in-your-face style, he revisited his [...]
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