The Year of Blogging Dangerously: Lessons from the "Blogosphere". This talk will describe how to build an institutional repository using free (or cheap) web-based and blogging tools including flickr.com, slideshare.net, citeulike.org, wordpress.com, myexperiment.org and friendfeed.com. We will discuss some strengths and limitations of these tools and what Institutional Repositories can learn from them.

1. The Year of Blogging Dangerously Lessons from the “Blogosphere” Dr. Duncan Hull “dullhunk” PostDoctoral Research Associate School of Chemistry, mib.ac.uk 23rd April 2009 Manchester e-Scholar Institutional Repository

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-en-big.png An Institutional Repository is for Saving and Sharing the Digital Intellectual Property of a Research Institution online http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository

4. The Institution: “ The University of Me and My Mates ”

5. Me My Data & Intellectual Property (I.P.) 1. Papers I’m reading and writing 2. Laboratory Notebook 3. Slideshows 4. Software (workflows) 5. Images (photos, figures and illustrations) Notebook picture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigpogm/143995198/

7. 1. Papers I’m reading or have written Defrosting the Digital Library Hull, Pettifer and Kell PLoS Computational Biology http://pubmed.gov/18974831 citeulike.org/user/dullhunk Save and share personal digital library, organise all pdf files and metadata in one place on the Web

10. Dangerous risks mostly compensated for by benefits Dr. Cameron Neylon, Biochemist Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and The University of Southampton I started up a blog and all I got was five invites to give keynotes, ten new collaborators, introduction to new funding bodies, an interview in Nature , an invite to Science Foo Camp , three papers...and a couple of T-shirts Cameron’s Blog: “Science in the Open” http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/ With thanks to John Dupuis “Confessions of a Science Librarian” http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2009/03/academic-blogging-promoting-your.html

11. 3. Slideshows @ slideshare .net/dullhunk 15,732 views! Professor Carole Goble test Save and share powerpoint presentations for viewing in web browser

14. 5. Images See www.flickr.com - Photos - Figures - Illustrations Store and share images on the web

16. “ The University of Me and My Mates ” “ My Mates” = Trusted friends + colleagues, mostly PostDocs and PhD students, Globally distributed, young “Google Generation” but includes some more senior scientists

17. friendfeed.com/dullhunk Integrates all data from citeulike, wordpress, flickr, myexperiment and slideshare via feeds into one place … and all my peers too Voting and commentary Can be noisy but interesting data usually floats to the top Trusted Social Network of ~30 peers See “Microblogging the ISMB” Saunders et al PLoS Computational Biology http://pubmed.gov/19180175

20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-en-big.png Sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping and see also http://tinyurl.com/cropshare