Research Information Network 07 May 2009

Social media A waste of researchers’ time http://rg-d.com/rpg/ http://f1000.com/

Meta http://rg-d.com/rpg/

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http://f1000.com Post-publication peer review http://rg-d.com/rpg/

What is Social Media? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

What is Social Media? • People talking, facilitated by technology http://rg-d.com/rpg/

‘Web 1.0’ Internet Users http://rg-d.com/rpg/

‘Web 1.0’ Content providers Internet Users http://rg-d.com/rpg/

‘Web 1.0’ Content providers INFORMATION Internet Users http://rg-d.com/rpg/

‘Web 2.0’ Internet Users http://rg-d.com/rpg/

‘Web 2.0’ INFORMATION Internet Users http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Something new? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Something new? • Anyone remember Usenet? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Something new? • Anyone remember Usenet? • Science Advisory Board http://scienceboard.net • Built around a marketing strategy • 40,000+ members http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Something new? • Anyone remember Usenet? • Science Advisory Board http://scienceboard.net • Built around a marketing strategy • 40,000+ members • Technology • share anything http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Something new? • Anyone remember Usenet? • Science Advisory Board http://scienceboard.net • Built around a marketing strategy • 40,000+ members • Technology • share anything • low barrier to entry http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys Flickr Facebook Twitter LibraryThing Delicious FriendFeed Blogs http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys Nature Network ResearchGATE SciLink Epernicus BiomedExperts Academia.edu Laboratree myExperiment CiteULike Connotea Mendeley 2collab Labmeeting http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys • So everyone is doing it? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys • So everyone is doing it? • Lack of interest? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys • So everyone is doing it? • Lack of interest? • Lack of vision? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Wonderful toys • So everyone is doing it? • Lack of interest? • Lack of vision? • Lack of relevance? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of time http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of time • “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing” — J. Rohn http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of time • “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing” — J. Rohn • Researchers do not have time to build platforms http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of time • “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing” — J. Rohn • Researchers do not have time to build platforms • Researchers do not have time to beta test http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of time • “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing” — J. Rohn • Researchers do not have time to build platforms • Researchers do not have time to beta test • Researchers are writing slides on the train... http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of value http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of value • What’s in it for me? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Lack of value • What’s in it for me? “These web tools must, ﬁrst of all, solve some problem the users have without needing to resort to ‘network effects’. Those beneﬁts should come as a bonus” — P. Beltrao http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Creating products http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Creating products • Build a service • make it fulﬁll a need • make it work! http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Creating products • Build a service • make it fulﬁll a need • make it work! “Web tools need to appeal ﬁrst to bench scientists, not web-savvy techies” — A. Kushnir http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Who are you? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Who are you? “With academics in mind, [it] records authorship, assigns copyright, deﬁnes licenses, manages editing, and includes custom software for an interactive peer-review process. This pre-publishing environment will be further streamlined to include one-click submission of peer-reviewed articles for open access or 'traditional' publication when an appropriate publishing partner/solution is identiﬁed” http://rg-d.com/rpg/

What do you want? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

What do you want? I looked at the site, and NOBODY IS GOING TO USE THAT EVER — E. Amsen • ‘Ordinary’ researchers http://rg-d.com/rpg/

What do you want? I looked at the site, and NOBODY IS GOING TO USE THAT EVER — E. Amsen • ‘Ordinary’ researchers • Make friends, not war http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Clever cookies • Cameron Neylon: http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/ • Augmented browsing1 • Nature Network 1. Paﬁlis, Evangelos, O’Donoghue, Seán, Jensen, Lars, Horn, Heiko, Kuhn, Michael, Brown, Nigel, and Schneider, Reinhard. Reﬂect: Augmented Browsing for the Life Scientist. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3212.1> (2009) http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Value-added http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Value-added • Mendeley • Connotea • SAB http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Grant’s Law http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Grant’s Law • Social media tools must work off the bat and have a deﬁned value before being accepted by mainstream scientists http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Grant’s Law • Social media tools must work off the bat and have a deﬁned value before being accepted by mainstream scientists Corollary • Any social media tool that requires user development will fail http://network.nature.com/people/rpg/blog/2009/05/01/on-social-media http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Who do you trust? http://rg-d.com/rpg/ http://f1000.com/

Who do you trust? • WikiFAIL — Maurice Jarre http://rg-d.com/rpg/ http://f1000.com/

Who do you trust? • WikiFAIL — Maurice Jarre • Random nutters on the internet http://rg-d.com/rpg/ http://f1000.com/

Who do you trust? • WikiFAIL — Maurice Jarre • Random nutters on the internet • F1000? http://rg-d.com/rpg/ http://f1000.com/

So what do you want? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

So what do you want? • Protocols/products — where is the information? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

So what do you want? • Protocols/products — where is the information? • Open science http://rg-d.com/rpg/

So what do you want? • Protocols/products — where is the information? • Open science • Networking — enabling research http://rg-d.com/rpg/

More questions than answers http://rg-d.com/rpg/

More questions than answers • Scientists already socialize as ‘ordinary people’ — Facebook, Twitter, etc. • Is it worth convincing researchers of the professional beneﬁts of Social Media? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

More questions than answers • Scientists already socialize as ‘ordinary people’ — Facebook, Twitter, etc. • Is it worth convincing researchers of the professional beneﬁts of Social Media? • If so, how? http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Necessary/sufﬁcient http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Necessary/sufﬁcient • Not enough to ask ‘what do you want?’ http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Necessary/sufﬁcient • Not enough to ask ‘what do you want?’ • Nor even to (just) have a bright idea http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Necessary/sufﬁcient • Not enough to ask ‘what do you want?’ • Nor even to (just) have a bright idea • ‘What will people want?’ http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Question Are there times when science shouldn’t be a conversation? When sitting quietly and listening is more important than joining in discussion? — David Crotty, CSH http://rg-d.com/rpg/

Research Information Network 07 May 2009

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