Learning from complete strangers: social networking for bioinformaticians

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Presented at Bioinformatics FOAM workshop, Melbourne, March 28 2014.

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Learning from complete strangerssocial networking for bioinformaticians

Neil Saunders

COMPUTATIONAL INFORMATICSwww.csiro.au

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this is not the advocacy talkthese are the advocacy talks

http://www.slideshare.net/lindenb/draft-being-a-bioinformatician-20

http://www.slideshare.net/c.titus.brown/2013-beaconcongresssocialmedia-25245386

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quotes to inspire

No matter who you are, most of the smartest people workfor someone else- Bill Joy

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quotes to inspire

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.- Clay Shirky

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four ages of online interaction(at least since c. 2000)

the age of forums and portals

the age of blogs

the age of “facebook for scientists”

the age of Twitter

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in the beginningthere was nodalpoint.org (2000 - 2009)

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questions and answers

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what we learned from nodalpoint

if you build it, they will come [*]

[*] Unless you build it wrong. Then they don’t.

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the age of blogsI blog at http://nsaunders.wordpress.com

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recent items from bioinformatics blogs

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most hits to blogs are via searchaggregators are largely useless, with exceptions

http://www.r-bloggers.com/

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what we learned from blogsexperts are “out there” and they will find you

https://xkcd.com/386/

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the age of “Facebook for Scientists”

social networks for scientists

too many

high barrier to entry

benefits unclear

but do give you ”web presence“

N. Saunders (SMMS, UQ) Science networks November 26, 2008 8 / 29

http://www.slideshare.net/neilfws/what-can-science-networking-online-do-for-you-presentation

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what we learned from “fb4sci”they don’t workbeware of anything “for scientists”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)

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at about the same time came...FriendFeed

http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/the-life-scientists-at-friendfeed-2009-summary/

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what we learned from FriendFeeddata finds data then people find people

http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/07/02/data-finds-data-then-people-find-people/

http://cameronneylon.net/blog/why-the-web-of-data-needs-to-be-social/

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the age of Twitter

https://twitter.com/shaylamaddox/status/27278131665

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what can you do with 140 characters?

Lots of things!

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post links to interesting articlespossibly your own

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provide status updatesservices, software

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advertise jobsalso meetings, events

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advertise your other online content

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ask/answer questions

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discuss topical issues

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provide light relief

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what we learned from Twitter

it’s all about who you follow

transient and real-time is OK

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and so back to forums...forums have evolved and are still valuable

what I’ve learned from forums: you can’t improve the questions

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is social networking a time sink?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/30884177@N08/4107290250

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well...yes, it isneed to manage time as you see fit

http://www.ashersarlin.com/archives/2004/09/honestly_who_co.php

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is online activity recognised or rewarded?

by your employer? probably not

by everyone else - absolutely!

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rewards & recognition 1/n

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rewards & recognition 2/n

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rewards & recognition 3/n

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rewards & recognition 4/n

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rewards & recognition 5/n

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rewards & recognition 6/nand many more besides publications

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many socials we did not discuss

bibliography; bookmarking; presentations; video; audio; coding...