Social Networks For Scientists

Social networks for scientists Deepak Singh and Cameron Neylon - Science Online 09

Facebook helps people ﬁnd people

Scientists need to ﬁnd people

Therefore scientists need facebook

Lots of Facebooks...

EthicShare: http://ethicshare.cs.umn.edu/a... Neetz: http://www.neeetz.com/ (not a network, but a platform for creating same) Plaxo: http://www.plaxo.com/ (Facebook alternative?) iBreadCrumbs: http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/ (collaborative online research) SciSpace: http://scispace.net/ JeffsBench: http://jeffsbench.com./ (more a community than an app) MyExperiment: http://www.myexperiment.org/ Ning: http://www.ning.com/ (another platform for building networks) ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/ LabMeeting: http://www.labmeeting.com SciBook: http://www.facebook.com/apps/a... (inside FaceBook) Labspaces: http://labspaces.net/ ResearchCrossroads: http://www.researchcrossroads.... AcademiaConnect http://academiaconnect.org/ Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com/ BiomedExperts: http://www.biomedexperts.com/ Ologeez!: http://ologeez.stanford.edu/ NewResearcher: http://www.newresearcher.com/ Lots and lots and lots and... LiquidPub: http://project.liquidpub.org/, http://liquidpub.org/ Wikigenes: http://www.wikigenes.org/ Blog collections: Nature Network, http://www.cogito.org/ ScienceBlogs, Scientific Blogging, Wordpress, http://www.scilink.com/ Blogspot, (OpenWetWare) http://www.scilife.net/ Blog aggregators: Postgenomic, http://www.lalisio.com/ ChemicalBlogspace, ResearchBlogging http://www.rxpgonline.com/ Social Networks: Laboratree, Ologeez, http://www.graduatejunction.com/ Research Gate, Epernicus, LabMeeting, http://www.scienxe.org/ Graduate Junction (Nature Network), SciBog, http://www.scientificblogging.com/ SciMeet, SciSpace, WAYS http://www.authoratory.com/ Protocol sharing: Scivee, Bioscreencast, http://www.academia.edu/ OpenWetWare, YouTube, Protocolsonline, http://www.bioforge.be/intermedi/ MyExperiment http://scholarz.net/ Literature sharing: citeulike, connotea, http://ways.org/ delicious, Bibsonomy, 2collab, Zotero http://www.shvoong.com/ (upcoming 2.0 version) http://www.spreadingscience.com/ Others: Friendfeed, Twitter, GoogleDocs, http://pronetos.com/ GoogleGroups, Upcoming, Seesmic, http://www.internations.org/ eventseer.net http://www.active-project.eu/

Restricting ourselves to social networking sites does anyone use these?

Quality/usefulness?

Fatal ﬂaws - 1 • Social networks rely on network effects • No members means no network • If I arrive and no-one else is there why would I come back • Must provide up front value - solve a problem I know I have - only a few of the current offerings do this

Fatal Flaws - II • Scientists are not very social... • Are looking for solutions; not for people It’s not the scientists that are social - it’s the data (I think paraphrased from Neil Saunders)

Five guidelines for online services 1. Tool must solve an existing (and pressing) problem and ﬁt an existing workﬂow 2. Tool must clearly outperform any existing tools that are available to the user 3. The service must be near 100% reliability 4. Provide at least one killer feature 5. Prepopulate. Don’t provide new users with an online wasteland; they won’t come back

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Social Networks For Scientists

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