• Altmetric - tracks mentions of scholarly works on social media sites, scholarly bookmarking services and in science news outlets through several different products, here are two examples:
  • Altmetric Explorer -  A powerful and intuitive web application that helps you see all of the attention surrounding your papers.
  • Altmetric Bookmarklet - A simple browser tool that lets you instantly get article level metrics for any recent paper, for free.
• Impactstory - an open-source, free web-based tool that helps scientists explore and share the diverse impacts of all their research products—from traditional ones like journal articles, to emerging products like blog posts, datasets, and software.
  • Here is an example of a profile through Impactstory.
• Plum Analytics - tracks more than 20 different types of artifacts, including journal articles, books, videos, presentations, conference proceedings, datasets, source code, cases, and more.

• Mendeley - is an free, online research-collaboration platform and reference manager. Mendeley's metrics include how often papers are downloaded, shared with colleagues, and commented on. Mendeley also has an altmetrics group for researchers.
• Acumen - is a European research collaboration aimed at understanding the ways in which researches are evaluated by their peers and by institutions and at assessing how the science system can be improved and enchanced.  This FP7 project is a cooperation amont nine European research institutes.

Use Twitter to communicate your research as well as follow other research. Tweet about new publications, website update, conference presentations or a new blog about your research. To gage feedback, you could send a tweet that links to your research blog or papers and ask your followers for their feedback and comments.

Blogging about your research also has great benefits: quicker dissemination of research findings, quicker feedback and comments on your research from your audience, the ability to increase downloads to your papers and potentially citations, highlight research you want to highlight, provide context of your research for different audiences. 

Popular blogging platforms include:

• Wordpress
• blog.com
• Blogger
• Tumblr

• NISO Alternative Assessment Metrics Initiative
• The April/May 2013 issue of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology had many articles concerning altmetrics. This source provides pragmatic management reports, opinion, and news of people and events in the information science community.
• Sud, Pardeep, and Mike Thelwall. 2014. Evaluating altmetrics. Scientometrics 98, (2): 1131-1143.
• Roemer, Robin Chin, and Rachel Borchadt. 2012. From bibliometrics to altmetrics. College & Research Libraries News 73, (10): 596.
• Howard, Jennifer. 2013. Rise of 'altmetrics' revives questions about how to measure impact of research. The Chronicle of Higher Education (accessed January 21, 2015).
• Gu, Feng, and Gunilla Widén-Wulff. "Scholarly communication and possible changes in the context of social media: a Finnish case study." Electronic Library, The 29, no. 6 (2011): 762-776.
• Bik, Holly M., and Miriam C. Goldstein. 2013. An introduction to social media for scientists. PLoS biology 11, (4): e1001535.
• Lapinski, Scott, Heather Piwowar, and Jason Priem. 2013. Riding the crest of the altmetrics wave: How librarians can help prepare faculty for the next generation of research impact metrics. College & Research Libraries News 74, (6): 292.
• Keeping Up With... Altmetrics - written by Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt. http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/keeping_up_with/altmetrics