Everyone is using Twitter these days. It’s a great way to communicate and keep up to date with your social network of friends and interests. Therefore, we thought you’d be interested in being able to hook up your Mendeley and Twitter account so that folks can keep up with your research interests and output.

Just follow these simple steps and you should have your Mendeley account connected to your Twitter account in no time.

1. Log into Mendeley Web (http://www.mendeley.com)
2. Go to the account details section.



3. Then select the Sharing/Importing tab.



4. Click on the “Connect” button. You will be sent to Twitter’s website so that you can authorize the connection. (Don’t worry, we do not have access to your Twitter details, that’s why you are sent to their website!)



5. You’ll be sent back to Mendeley after approving the connection on Twitter’s site.
6. You can now select which activities you perform in Mendeley will be tweeted in your Twitter account. Simply check or uncheck the boxes you want and click “Update settings”.

Here’s an example of a tweet of someone adding a new publication to their “My Publications” folder:

I just added my own publication: ‘Effects of gene flow on phenotype matching between two varieties of Joshua tree…’ mnd.ly/11Egj98

— Jeremy Yoder (@JBYoder) March 25, 2013

So there you go, you can now have Mendeley automatically tweet selected bits of your Mendeley activity. We look forward to reading your tweets!

Here are the previous entries in this twelve part How-to series:

• How to merge author names
• How to drag and drop PDF links into Mendeley for direct download
• Generate BibTeX files for your collections for use in LaTeX
• How to check for duplicate entries and merging
• How to copy & paste formatted citations anywhere (LaTeX too!)
• How to add supplementary data to references
• How to keep references and documents unpublished (out of catalog)
• How to export your annotations (alone or with your PDF)
• How to merge contiguous citations with word plugin.
• How to search your notes (and other fields)

Excitement levels are high at Mendeley this month because we’ve got several momentous milestones coming up – the release of Mendeley 1.0, crossing 1 million users, and 100 Million document uploads. We’d like to invite you to share in this moment with us by tweeting papers from the Mendeley Research Catalog, using the hashtags #mendeley #100M. Every paper you tweet enters you in a drawing to win a Solar System package free for one year. Tweet as many papers as you like – each tweet counts as a separate entry in our drawing! (more…)

Today brings a major new update for Mendeley Web as well as a new Development Preview of Mendeley Desktop. Here’s a short list of some of the improvements: (more…)

A useful way to keep your contacts up to date on what you’re doing online is to have services tweet out your activity. Now Mendeley will send tweets on your behalf if you add a publication to the “My Publications” folder or comment or like something in a public group newsfeed. You can activate this on your Account Settings page and pick and choose which activities you’d like to have tweeted on your behalf.

Another small but useful change is the addition of permalinks to activity feed items, making it easier to call attention to a specific item in the feed. You’ll find those attached to the date for each item. We’ve also made lots of under-the-hood fixes and improvements to the API. Please note that with this release, we’re also officially dropping support for IE6.

‘Lost in citation, APA or MLA, Shown with Mendeley’

We asked our Mendeley Advisors to submit a haiku on their Advisor application and the material that was submitted was so impressive we thought we would open up submissions to the wider Mendeley community. If you’re a poet (whether you know it or not), send us a tweet including #mendeleyhaiku or post on our Facebook page and we’ll add it to our collection. To make it a little more fun, we’ll pick a winner and feature their haiku on this blog, twitter, and our Facebook page. We’ll also give the best scholarly poet to enter our competition the item of their choice from our Cafepress page, and a premium account for ten of their friends who aren’t using Mendeley yet.

Scoring will be based on the number of retweets or likes of the post. Haiku should follow the traditional form and must include the #mendeleyhaiku hashtag or be posted to our Facebook page to enter.

DEADLINE is February 14th, so get your creative juices flowing!