how and why i use blogging
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A talk I gave for my colleagues on how and why I use blogging and twitter for science, trying to convince them to start doing the same. DO check out the presenter notes! (see tab 'notes')TRANSCRIPT
+How and why I use blogging and twitter for science Lex
Nederbragt
@lexnederbragt
CEES Late Lunch Talk, Monday May 7th
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This talk could change your life
WARNING
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Apologies to http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg
Reputation
+What if
you could publish more often
get instant feedback
increase your network
build your reputation
+Let’s get started
How it started for me
http://www.schoox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/start.png
+I became good at something
newbler 454 data
+I wanted to my
knowledge
http://howdoitradestocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/share-ideas1.jpg
SHARE
+I started a blog
http://fairfieldwriter.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/blogging2.jpg
+What is a blog ?
personal, public journal
entries: ‘posts’
reverse chronological order
single individual or small group
single subject
Based on the wikipedia definition
+My blog at wordpress.com
contig.wordpress.com
+It worked!
Four to six thousand visitsEACH MONTH
+Comments
+Referrals
+Praise
Thanks a lot for explaining [a certain output file] content!
It really helps me
Thanks for the post, this blog is a great Newbler resource!
Can I contribute with some money?
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Great, but so what?
Are you getting anything out of it?
http://www.betternotolder.com/42/gonna-do/so-what-pic/
+The Internet
as a temple of knowledge
+The Internet
SHARINGTaking Giving back
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http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg
Reputation
+Another blog
flxlexblog.wordpress.com
+Critical look at new data
+Critical comments
+Praise
http://mira-assembler.sourceforge.netBy Bastien Chevreux
The blog of Lex Nederbragt is [...] very down to earth and he knows a bluff when he sees it ...
and is not afraid to call it (be it from IonTorrent, PacBio or 454).
The analysis he did on a couple of Ion data sets have saved me quite some time
http://mira-assembler.sourceforge.net/docs/DefinitiveGuideToMIRA.html
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http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg
Reputation
+“You want to talk one on one?”
Bloggers as ambassadors
+Previewing new data
+Blogging
Very good tool for sharing in science
Builds reputation
Increases your network
Allows you to PUBLISH small findings that would never have made it into a full paper or would have been outdated once the paper came out
+Blogging
Writing exercise
Journal club blog @ CEES?
+Blogging
Takes time
Shouldn’t become the marketing department for a company
+Science blogs
Describing new papers
Critical comments
Science news
Conference summaries
Fun facts
Etc. etc…
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SHARING
+What is ?
Short message service
140 characters
Tweets and tweeting ‘open access’
Follow people’s tweets - timeline
Credit due: http://www.slideshare.net/kbradnam/twitter-101-an-introduction-to-twitter#
+Step 1 – get an account
NOT necessary!
Since June 2009,
@lexnederbragt is my twitter ‘handle’
+ Step 2 – find interesting people to follow
I follow @KjetilLysneVoje and get to see his tweets in my timeline
+Step 3 – be followed
@KjetilLysneVoje also follows me
+Step 3 – be followed
+Step 4 – start reading and posting tweets
Following helps filter all tweets
+What to do with twitter
read content
Tweets often contain links
+What to do with twitter
write content
Links you insert are automatically shortened
+What to do with twitter
redistribute content
Post to your timeline
+What to do with twitter
communicate
Message to me
Click here to answer
+What to do with twitter
follow conferences
hashtag
+What to do with twitter
+What twitter is NOT
lengthy discussions
for old news
+Who is on twitter
News services
+Who is on twitter
Science journals
+What do you find on twitter
News – fast!
+What do you find on twitter
Lot’s of noise
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/05/isnt_the_long_t.html
+What do you find on twitter
Science:
science news
new scientific articles
new blog posts
conference tweeting
+What do you find on twitter
+What do you find on twitter
+What do you find on twitter
+What do you find on twitter
+What do you find on twitter
+What do you find on twitter
+What do you find on twitter
+What do I find on twitter
finding out about new articles
finding out about new blog posts
following a conference without being there
news items relevant for my research
networking
announcing new blog posts
+By the way
+Cool stuff that happened
+Cool stuff that happened
@norseqcenter
+Cool stuff that happened
+Cool stuff that happened
flxlexblog.wordpress.com
+Cool stuff that happened
+Cool stuff that happened
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+
http://garybizzo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/character1.jpg
Reputation
+Not so cool stuff that might
happen
Over-following
Distracting
Addictive
+ SHARING
+Excuses for not sharing
Too busy
Need to publish
Don’t get anything out of it
+Science 2.0
Shareor
Suffer
+Science 2.0
+Science 2.0
+Science 1.0
"Right now the time lag between
finishing a paper
and the research community seeing it
is between 6 months and 2 years."
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/05/the-future-of-peer-review/
+BUT, we need peer review!
http://genomicenterprise.com/blog/2010/09/03/peer-review-of-articles-in-science-politically-correct/
+Peer review will follow!
http://michelleaheath.com/2009/02/pie-and-the-secret-of-sharing/
Need a redefinition of ‘Impact (factor)’
+Science 2.0
Shareor
Suffer
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http://redcreekbaptistchurch.org/resources/Publish+or+Perish+Printing+Ministry+Missionary+Card.jpg
Thank you