Friendfeed for Scientific Collaboration
Almost two years ago, I asked my Friendfeed community a question:
“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.”
I received plenty of answers and later this open Google Document was created for a similar purpose: how Friendfeed helped your career. A few examples:
- Advice on new lab material purchase
- Request for other Life Scientists to review an NIH grant prior to submission.
- Extraction of the information about the proteins in wikipedia. Potential paper to come.
- Andy started an entry on Wikipedia for Open Notebook Science and several people added content and support to have it accepted by editors
Feel free to share Your story!
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My favorite story about blogging is that blogging itself dragged me into the world of the blogosphere. A very vocal professor came out and attached the ChemSpider website and launched a pretty intense attack over a few weeks. There is no way to defend against such attacks in the blogosphere except to participate. SO I went online with a blog: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=8
However, no news is bad news as they say…thus the massive spike in traffic shown here: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=127
My participation in the blogosphere has garnered feedback to help develop ChemSpider (www.chemspider.com) and get engagement with the community. VERY valuable.
Thanks for sharing this story!