Besides promotion and keeping in touch, I love to use social media for research of all ilk. A new tool I’ve been playing with is Google’s realtime search.
Realtime search uses news, blog posts, and social updates to come up with its results, so it’s not necessarily what you want for detailed research. But for a snapshot or up-to-date links on a topic? I’m finding it useful.
Anyone else… or is it just me?

