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

2. Facebook helps people nd people 3. Scientists need to nd people 4. Therefore scientists need facebook 5. Lots of Facebooks... 6. 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/ 7. Restricting ourselves to social networking sites does anyone use these? 8. Quality/usefulness? 9. Fatal aws - 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 10. Fatal Flaws - II Scientists are not very social... Are looking for solutions; not for peopleIts not the scientists that are social - its the data (I think paraphrased from Neil Saunders) 11. Five guidelines for online services1. Tool must solve an existing (and pressing) problemand t an existing workow 2. Tool must clearly outperform any existing tools thatare available to the user 3. The service must be near 100% reliability 4. Provide at least one killer feature 5. Prepopulate. Dont provide new users with an onlinewasteland; they wont come back