Top Fifty (50) or so, social media sites in academia

1. Academia.edu – http://www.academia.edu/
2. BioCrowd – http://www.biocrowd.com/
3. BioMedExperts – http://www.biomedexperts.com/
4. Brainify – http://www.brainify.com/About/
5. CiteULike – http://citeulike.com/
6. Connotea – http://connotea.org/
7. CrowdVine – http://www.crowdvine.com/home
8. Delicious – http://delicious.com
9. Digital Research Tools wiki – http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/
10. Elgg – http://elgg.com AND http://elgg.org/
11. Epernicus – http://www.epernicus.com/
12. EthicShare – https://www.ethicshare.org/
13. Facebook – http://facebook.com
14. Flickr – http://flickr.com (Images)
15. GoogleDocs – http://google.com/docs
16. Graduate Junction – http://www.graduatejunction.net
17. JournalFire – http://journalfire.com/
18. JusCollege – http://juscollege.com/
19. JoinDiaspora – https://joindiaspora.com/
20. Lab Guru – http://www.labguru.com/
21. Labome.org – http://www.labome.org/
22. LabRoots – http://www.labroots.com/
23. LabSpaces – http://www.labspaces.net/
24. LibraryThing – http://www.librarything.com/
25. LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/nhome/
26. Meducation – http://www.meducation.net/
27. Mendeley – http://www.mendeley.com/
28. MethodSpace – http://www.methodspace.com
29. MyExperiment – http://www.myexperiment.org/
30. NatureNetwork – http://network.nature.com/
31. NetVibes – http://netvibes.com
32. Ning – http://ning.com (Build networks)
33. PBWorks – http://pbworks.com/
34. Research CrossRoads – http://www.researchcrossroads.org/
35. Sakai Project – http://sakaiproject.org/portal
36. ResearchGATE – https://www.researchgate.net/
37. Second life – http://secondlife.com
38. SciBlog – http://www.scientificblogging.com/
39. SciPlore MindMapping – http://sciplore.org/software/sciplore_mindmapping/
40. SciSpace – http://www.scispace.com/
41. SciWeavers – http://sciweavers.org/
42. Scholar – http://www.scholar.com/
43. Scribd – http://www.scribd.com/
44. SlideShare – https://www.slideshare.net/
45. TeacherTube – http://www.teachertube.com/
46. Wikipedia – http://wikipedia.org
47. WizFolio – https://www.wizfolio.com/
48. Yammer – http://www.yammer.com/
49. YouTube – http://youtube.com
50. Zoho – http://www.zoho.com/
51. Zotero – http://www.zotero.org/

For more information:

• Aggregating tools
  • Mendeley – Manage, Share & Discover Research
  • Zotero – open-source citation management
• Avatars
• Archives 2.0
• Blogs
  • Bloggers – Legal aspects
  • Microblogging
    • Twitter
• Gaming in health libraries
  • Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs)
  • Second Life
• Google 2.0 Workshops
• Information technology topics
• Mashups
• Podcasts and vodcasts
  • Medical video-sharing sites
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
• Screencasting
• Search engines; social search
• Semantic web
  • Web 3.0
• Social networking
  • Location-based social networking sites (SNSs)
• Social software
• Social bookmarking sites
  • Social tagging
  • Social cataloguing
• Social media policies
• Social network platforms
• Teaching with technology
• Top social media sites for academia
• Top Social Media Websites in Medicine – 2012
  
• Web 3.0
• Wikis