Huh. Any #academics out there use Flockademic? How does this tool relate to something like ImpactStory?
One value-add is the ability to "add a journal." Anyone run a journal out of this?
@vickysteeves I hadn't heard of Flockademic until just now.
@bstacey Yeah I hadn't heard about it until this morning!
@vickysteeves SciRate has gotten a bit of adoption in my corner of physics; here's my profile on that: https://scirate.com/blake-stacey
@bstacey @vickysteeves I just use ResearchGate, which I realize is a different model. I mostly use it by going through phases of answering questions to stealth-market my consulting.
Since I got sick, I'm not a lead on anything (by choice), so I rarely am responsible for the choice of publication outlet or where/if to post preprints, though I try to push the leads that direction.
@naga @bstacey @vickysteeves Note that ResearchGate is a for-profit that does not use open licensing, makes your research unavailable without warning, does not use open identifiers, provides no archival guarantees, and I think has a few other points that I can't think of now that should make you think twice. Same for Academia.edu.
(That's not to say that Flockademic is perfect (far from it), but there are far better homes for your preprints.)
@naga @bstacey @vickysteeves Ah, good, carry on then ^.^
@Flockademic @bstacey @vickysteeves My "advertising" primarily consists of a presence on help boards and discussion groups on my topics, and a website link in my signature.
I'm really quite terrible at this marketing thing. 😂
@Flockademic @bstacey @vickysteeves Yes, I'm aware. That's what I meant by "a different model." I don't use it for sharing my research. As I said, I use it for marketing via the Q/A.