slides that expand on Ten Simple Rules of Live Tweeting at Scientific Conferences http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/comments/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1003789 by providing ideas for storing conference tweets, mining them and what the mobile app or website might look like. The Slides also provide more insight into the paper

1. Going beyond - 10 simple rules of
live tweeting at scientific
conferences
Sean Ekins

2. How it began..
• Feb 11-13 attended Lysosomal Disease Network
10th Annual World symposium in San Diego –
• Walking to dinner one night with Ethan Perlstein
we discussed the lack of live tweeters and the
1000′s of patients globally that could benefit
from hearing what was going on at the meeting.
• We discussed the idea to write a paper on how to
live tweet at such scientific conferences.

3. An editorial captures attention

4. The Rules

5. These are just a guide
• Not definitive
• Not the end
• Just a guide to get people started
• Not a “best practice”
• Provides an outline or “how to”
• Experts already know the rules

6. How did we spread the word?
• We primarily used Twitter
– Ethan’s followers >4000, my followers at start 770
– We favorite’d and thanked many for RT’s
• A blog post http://goo.gl/qoodk4

7. Response
• Nearly 13,000 views > 900 shares in 2 weeks
• Additional Rules from Twitter responses
– 11. bring extra power, sit near outlet for long
sessions and recharge often
– 12. Register the hashtag on Symplur for analytics
& transcripts http://ow.ly/AEHay
• Sparked discussions on twitter
• Additional References
– Blogs and papers we missed

8. Respondents
• Cover all kinds of backgrounds in science
• Ecologists, health, clinical researchers, nurses,
PhD, non PhD, patients, advocates……..
• Global response

9. So what next?
• Do nothing – wallow in it
• Let others take it from here
• Or do something ourselves
– How to get more live tweeting to happen?
– How to save and mine conference live tweets?
– How to encourage scientists to use twitter

10. Why can’t tweets from conferences be
like papers – we enrich them and
people build on them

11. The challenge
• Globally likely hundreds of science
conferences
• Live tweeting increasing in sciences
• Tweets usually transient unless saved
• How to capture the tweets and keep
discussions going?
• Needs community to filter out junk tweets

12. Whats needed and likely outcome
• A way to store just conference tweets
• This could rapidly become a massive database
• An opportunity for dataminers
– Build connections across diseases
– Build connections across communities
– Foster collaboration

13. It begins here : A Mobile App for Open
Drug Discovery
Open Drug Discovery Teams – brings data from Twitter and the internet together
A flipboard for science
#ODDT
iOS only
Embraced by rare disease
advocates
Getting people to share
data openly is a
challenge
Tweets saved indefinitely
Developed with Alex Clark
http://goo.gl/r9NP7p
Ekins et al., Mol Informatics, 31: 585-597, 2012

14. So why not use it to focus on
conferences
Prepopulate
with meetings
and allow users
to add own
- This could also
be a website of
conferences
and tweets
#ACSsanfran XYZ reports a new synthesis – see his paper in JMC jan 2014

15. Content pages example for
conferences
ACS Denver 2015
ACS Denver 2015
is the spring
meeting of the
ACS (weblink)
#ACSDenver
Tweets listed here
Collate all tweets with meeting #
Enable search of tweets for topics
Allow users to vote up or down,
filter / remove off topic tweets
(already Chemically aware – so
useful for chemistry confs)
Companies / academics may want
access to all content for mining

16. Goals
• To make all conference tweets open
• Promote open science
• Promote collaboration
• Democratize science
• Add a new dimension to conferences forever

17. Strategy
• Reach out to organizations for sponsorship
and support
• Create a new software or database focused on
science conference tweets
• Direct tweet conferences to get them to
encourage live tweeting
• Ultimately live tweeting will continue to
increase – we need to be ready for the deluge!

18. Ethan Perlstein Alex Clark Antony Williams