IET Discover is a new user-created information sharing and networking service for engineers from the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Importantly, it’s free and is not just limited to IET members.
It consists of a social bookmarking service with tagging, where you can save websites, and it also allows you to create your own homepage and join collaborative groups. There are various other features, making this worth a trial if you’re involved in any way with engineering and technology.
Because of the importance and size of the IET as a professional society, I expect that this useful new service will be heavily used.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
Senior Subject Librarian
18 December 2008 at 3:55 pm |
[...] A while back I wrote in this blog about social networking in academia, and a bit later I mentioned IET Discover, an example of a well-supported network. There’s a lot of developments in this area of [...]
28 January 2009 at 7:05 pm |
interesting, are there any social networks for engineers?
31 January 2009 at 12:43 pm |
IET Discover is for engineers. There’s also 2collab. Keep an eye on http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/ and there’s also some more information at http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/social-media-for-science-librarians.html
11 May 2009 at 9:38 pm |
The only one that comes close is EngineeringDaily.net – A news and notes website for engineering professionals.
I like it.