Social Networking for Researchers

You'll know about LinkedIn.

Have you heard of Academia.edu and ResearchGate?  Both are more focused on research, and less on employment opportunities, compared to LinkedIn.  They're websites where you can profile your own research, list your publications, or just find like-minded researchers to discuss common interests.

https://www.researchgate.net/home.Home.html

For example, if you were a music teacher, you might have found these discussions interesting - they all came up today:-

https://www.academia.edu/

Click on the link to Academia.edu above, and enter a keyword connected with your research into the box at the top of the page.  This is just a screenshot:- 

Digital Ballet? The Guardian Ponders over a Modern Phenomenon

Is Digital Ballet as Good as the Real Thing?

Unsung Composers: interesting website

Mysterious but Useful 

Unsung Composers Forum 

The somewhat prosaic appearance is misleading: this discussion forum is a useful website for looking up forgotten and little-known composers of the Romantic era.

http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/

Whittaker hasn't established the origin of this forum, but can advise that it's 'powered by Simple Machines® Forum (SMF) software', which seems to facilitate a number of forums.  And it works!  I looked up Otto Mans the other day - found all I needed to know - and today I looked up Armas Jarnefelt.  Not only did I find biographical details - I even found a CD of the Berceuse for Violin and Orchestra, which I've been playing as an organ arrangement.  Very handy!  (And beautiful, actually.)

The Guardian - Culture Professionals Network

A very useful social networking link from the Guardian - 

Culture Professionals Network

Whittaker thinks you might find it worthwhile signing up to this - lots of interesting discussion for members of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland community.

For example, this week you're invited to share in:-

"Live online discussion:-  Innovating and inspiring: the future of music education -Join us from 12pm today to debate what a 21st century music education system should look like

"Audience development:- How to put audiences at the heart of art -Two arts venues explain why their audiences are more than just bums on seats"