27. Lack of time
• “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing”
— J. Rohn
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
28. Lack of time
• “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing”
— J. Rohn
• Researchers do not have time to build platforms
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
29. Lack of time
• “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing”
— J. Rohn
• Researchers do not have time to build platforms
• Researchers do not have time to beta test
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
30. Lack of time
• “Researchers are too busy to faff around LOLing”
— J. Rohn
• Researchers do not have time to build platforms
• Researchers do not have time to beta test
• Researchers are writing slides on the train...
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
33. Lack of value
• What’s in it for me?
“These web tools must, first of all, solve some
problem the users have without needing to resort
to ‘network effects’. Those benefits should come as
a bonus”
— P. Beltrao
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
36. Creating products
• Build a service
• make it fulfill a need
• make it work!
“Web tools need to appeal first to bench
scientists, not web-savvy techies”
— A. Kushnir
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
38. Who are you?
“With academics in mind, [it] records authorship,
assigns copyright, defines licenses, manages editing,
and includes custom software for an interactive
peer-review process. This pre-publishing
environment will be further streamlined to include
one-click submission of peer-reviewed articles for
open access or 'traditional' publication when an
appropriate publishing partner/solution is identified”
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
40. What do you want?
I looked at the site, and NOBODY IS
GOING TO USE THAT EVER
— E. Amsen
• ‘Ordinary’ researchers
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
41. What do you want?
I looked at the site, and NOBODY IS
GOING TO USE THAT EVER
— E. Amsen
• ‘Ordinary’ researchers
• Make friends, not war
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
42. Clever cookies
• Cameron Neylon:
http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/
• Augmented browsing1
• Nature Network
1. Pafilis, Evangelos, O’Donoghue, Seán, Jensen, Lars, Horn, Heiko, Kuhn, Michael,
Brown, Nigel, and Schneider, Reinhard.
Reflect: Augmented Browsing for the Life Scientist. Available from Nature Precedings
<http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2009.3212.1> (2009) http://rg-d.com/rpg/
46. Grant’s Law
• Social media tools must work off the bat and
have a defined value before being accepted
by mainstream scientists
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
47. Grant’s Law
• Social media tools must work off the bat and
have a defined value before being accepted
by mainstream scientists
Corollary
• Any social media tool that requires user development
will fail
http://network.nature.com/people/rpg/blog/2009/05/01/on-social-media
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
48. Who do you trust?
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
http://f1000.com/
49. Who do you trust?
• WikiFAIL — Maurice Jarre
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
http://f1000.com/
50. Who do you trust?
• WikiFAIL — Maurice Jarre
• Random nutters on the internet
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
http://f1000.com/
51. Who do you trust?
• WikiFAIL — Maurice Jarre
• Random nutters on the internet
• F1000?
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
http://f1000.com/
57. More questions than
answers
• Scientists already socialize as ‘ordinary
people’ — Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Is it worth convincing researchers of the
professional benefits of Social Media?
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
58. More questions than
answers
• Scientists already socialize as ‘ordinary
people’ — Facebook, Twitter, etc.
• Is it worth convincing researchers of the
professional benefits of Social Media?
• If so, how?
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
62. Necessary/sufficient
• Not enough to ask ‘what do you want?’
• Nor even to (just) have a bright idea
• ‘What will people want?’
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
63. Question
Are there times when science shouldn’t be a
conversation? When sitting quietly and
listening is more important than joining in
discussion?
— David Crotty, CSH
http://rg-d.com/rpg/
Hinweis der Redaktion
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.
scientists like new stuff, they are early adapters, and tend to embrace new technology if it’s demonstrably better and cheaper. With exceptions, natch.