10 Digital tools to use in research

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• Twitter has open data.• Twitter gets you connected.• With good use, Twitter can optimize your research.

These slides will be twitter focussed - Why?

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Click for Twitter Search

#1 Twitters advanced search - Use it!

• Great source for opinions, whishes, dreams and thoughts.• A quick look in to a particular field or subject.• Lots of operators like location, language or exact phrases.• Get quotes from users, experts, companies or officials.

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Click for Twiltert

#2 Twilerts - Daily search results per mail

• If you don’t have the time to keep watching a search...• Twilert will mail your search results.• Everyday on a time you specified.• Advanced parameters possible aswell.

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Click for Brandlisten

#3 Brandlisten - Cluster and export search results

• Cluster your search results on sentiment. • See the most common words in your search.• Export your data to an excell or PDF.• You can specify what to export.

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Click for The Archivist

#4 The Archivist - Archive search results

• Makes an archive of the 500 latest tweets in your search.• See which day generates the most tweets.• See who is creating the buzz, who to contact?• Get to know the context around your search results.

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Click for Tweriod

#5 Tweriod - When to tweet?

• Know when you reach the most people.• Good to know for questions.• ...a call to recruit respondents.• Or to inform the most people on a specific moment.

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Click for Buffer

#6 Buffer - Scheduling tweets

• Schedule, make a buffer and use it.• Lets you inform study subjects on specific moments.• You could give a different assignment each day.• Keep informing about your project even when your away.

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Click for IFTT

#7 If This Then That - Make your digital logics

• Connect almost every digital service and automates it.• If subject tweets “B completed” then tweet assignment C. • If subject tweets photo with #food, upload photo to dropbox. • Use your logic, it could be a great use for your project!

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Click for Mentionmapp

#8 Mentionmapp - Get to know people on Twitter

• See the latest activity of an expert, user or others. • Click, click, click and get connected with relevant people.• See what a person is tweeting about a lot lately. • Gives you a good snapshot of who a person is.

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Click for ThinkUp

#9 ThinkUp - Making your own tweet database

• Your tweets in your database.• But every reaction aswell!• Twitter surveys gets a lot easier to analyse. • Analyse and improve your own Twitter activity.

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Click for Touchatag

#10 Touchatag - Connecting physical to digital

• Enrich physical objects with digital sensors.• Place readers around subjects per example a desk.• Let the subject scan a card or cup with every coffee.• If sensor scanned then tweet “Subject A drinking coffee.”• Then collect data with ThinkUp, including timestamps.

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