There is definitely a need for users to manage multiple accounts for different tasks when creating a research workflow.
Quick Activity:
Use bubbl.us (or your favorite mindmapping tool) to draw your workflow.
Networked Participatory Scholarship defined:
"Scholars’ participation in online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and otherwise develop their scholarship." (Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2011)
Academic scholarly social media tools are being incorporated into faculty and student personal research environments & workflows.
In this research/learning model, users collect, organize & evaluate information drawn from different information streams as well as creating their own virtual presences & “exporting” their scholarly output
Citation: Peña-López, I. (2010) “The Workings of a Personal Learning Environment (I): the infrastructure” In ICTlogy, #83, August 2010. Barcelona: ICTlogy.
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2011 talk by Bill Russell, Communications Director of Emerald Publishing.