{"id":260,"date":"2012-07-12T18:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=260"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:25:08","slug":"social-networking-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/social-networking-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Social networking for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/women-laptop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-262\" title=\"women laptop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/07\/women-laptop-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>Genevieve Bell is an Intel researcher who \u201cfound that women are the heaviest users of today\u2019s most widespread and vital technologies: the Internet, mobile phones (voice and text), Skype, e-readers, other e-devices, GPS, and all social networking sites except LinkedIn\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2012\/06\/19\/genevieve_bell_on_women_and_tech_this_is_not_a_man_s_world.html\">Slate Magazine<\/a>, 6\/19\/2012, Waldman).\u00a0 However, I think that this news should not discourage men from using any type of current technology when needed.<\/p>\n<p>There are social networking sites for both sexes in the physical sciences and engineering.\u00a0 One example is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/\">ResearchGate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think of ResearchGate as a sort of Facebook account for professionals.\u00a0 It allows you to connect with people that have similar research interests.\u00a0 When you register for an account, you will be prompted to put in educational and professional information about yourself.\u00a0 You can enter in as little or as much information as you like.\u00a0 Based on the information you enter in your profile, ResearchGate will suggest conferences, papers, researchers, and jobs, etc. that you might be interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t hesitate to give it a try!\u00a0 You may find pleasant surprises in the suggestions that ResearchGate brings to your attention.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/images\/\"><em>Microsoft Office Clipart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genevieve Bell is an Intel researcher who \u201cfound that women are the heaviest users of today\u2019s most widespread and vital technologies: the Internet, mobile phones (voice and text), Skype, e-readers, other e-devices, GPS, and all social networking sites except LinkedIn\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/social-networking-for-everyone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}