Do you need some reasons why to blog? November 12, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, List, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.trackback
A few days ago, I posted a message on Friendfeed:
“What is your favourite blog story (that happened to you because you’re blogging)? I would like to share the best stories with students at the Medicince 2.0 credit course.”
Now I thought I should share the best stories with you:
- I got a chance to work at MIT
– Ricardo Vidal
- I interviewed one of my heroes, Felsenstein, and one of the researchers I most admire, Rod Page. Unfortunately not in person, but I guess they will invite for some coffee or tea if I ever show up on their door. – Paulo Nuin
- I got the job at PLoS in the comments of one of my blog posts: http://scienceblogs.com/clock/… – Bora Zivkovic
- Got invited to SciFoo – Pedro Beltrao
- I got invited to write an article for Nature, and then got invited to SciFoo – Richard Akerman
- I was invited to write a column on 3QuarksDaily; as a result of the Open Science stuff I posted there, I was interviewed by Mitch Waldrop for Scientific American; as a result of that interview, I was invited to give a seminar on OA; as a result of that seminar, I was invited to join the advisory board of the Berglund Center at Pacific U. Also, I would never have met the BioGang if I’d never blogged. – Bill Hooker
- Too many to mention. Highlights include people I’ve been able to get to know both virtually in person, the ability to participate in events I probably would not have otherwise. Specific highlights would include Scifoo and being interviewed by Jon Udell. And if I can put a plug in for Twitter, I kinda applied for a job on Twitter – Deepak
- Specifics – invitation to SciFoo, invitation to Science iin 21st Century and being at the conferences were real personal highlights. Meeting smart and interesting people online and in person. More generally the communication and connections have changed and are still changing the way I think about things. – Cameron Neylon
- as a student, I’m impressed when the author of a paper I discuss contacts me to continue the discussion. otherwise, as a librarian, I’ve gotten to discuss interaction issues with a few vendor reps and I’ve gotten a few speaking gigs out of it. – Christina Pikas
- Couple of things: I got my mentors (convinced few smart people to become my small advisory board); got involved in scientific collaboration (with Cameron); I was interviewed by a polish magazine about Science 2.0. When article about S2.0 was published, I was contacted by people building science-business collaboration platform in Poland (there’s something coming next year); most importantly learned quite a lot and changed career plans – but that doesn’t sound very cool, does it?
– Pawel Szczesny
- I was interviewed by ABC.com for a piece they wrote about customer service agents because of a blog post I’d written about my days as a CS rep. – Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
- funding from Submeta, superb collaborators, trip to UK, invitations to speak at confs, consulting work and just plain fun – Jean-Claude Bradley
- I got my current job because of my blog and through reading other blogs. Started talking with the guy who hired me over IM because of a few blogs that he had done regarding cat litter and RIM Blackberry cell phones. – Alex Scoble CISSP
If something great happened to you because of your blog, please share the story with us.
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Wow, that’s really awesome to see those examples written here. This is exactly the kind of success story to keep me motivated. Hopefully, someday I’ll be able to share a similar story.
I agree with Jonathan!
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is there any pre requesites for the art of blogging..??