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Be a Blogger – A Guide to How and Why Antony Williams

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The Benefits of Blogging <ul><li>Blogs allow passions, opinions, critiques, data and other “stuff” to be shared with the public </li></ul><ul><li>Visible to your community – if you do work to connect with your community </li></ul><ul><li>They can move you into a network of “knowns and unknowns”- make you “searchable and indexed” </li></ul><ul><li>Blogs are a low cost way to “do good” as well as “cause harm” – anyone can blog </li></ul><ul><li>Is time-consuming, can be challenging but more pluses than minuses </li></ul>

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Google Blogger: https://www.blogger.com/start

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Four Quadrants Poetry

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Choose a Look and Feel

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Set Up Your Blog and GO

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It’s a simple editor…

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Tell Your Story…Why RU Blogging?

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And Away You Go…. <ul><li>Basic HTML Editing </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Fonts, Bold, Italic, Underline, …. “Formatting” </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Links, Embed Movies, Photos, Presentations </li></ul></ul>

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Embedding Images - Easy

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Welcome to the Blogosphere… <ul><li>Personal preferences… </li></ul><ul><ul><li>I moderate comments </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>For some blog posts I use the web 2.0 network </li></ul></ul>

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About Me and ChemSpider

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How Was ChemSpider Built? <ul><li>ChemSpider was a “hobby project” </li></ul><ul><li>Housed in a basement </li></ul>

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That growth curve… <ul><li>Very difficult to say why we saw growth: new resource, diverse data, focus on quality, all-inclusive approach to chemistry </li></ul><ul><li>And the spike? </li></ul>

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The Monkeys at ChemZoo <ul><li>http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=261 </li></ul>

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Blogs Can Educate Us All… <ul><li>What is logP versus logD? </li></ul><ul><li>Calcium carbonate IS soluble </li></ul>

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Partially Soluble isn’t Insoluble <ul><li>When experts say it’s ok: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/calcium-carbonate-logp-predictions-and-chris-lipinski.html </li></ul>

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… and so into the Blogosphere

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Network Yourself

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Engage the community

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Run Multiple Blogs…

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Blogging <ul><li>After 6 months of blogging…. </li></ul><ul><li>http://tinyurl.com/plrrcj </li></ul>

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Thank you [email_address] Twitter: ChemSpiderman www.chemspider.com/blog SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams