{"id":255,"date":"2009-05-01T14:35:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T14:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/05\/01\/on_social_media\/"},"modified":"2009-05-01T14:35:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T14:35:40","slug":"on_social_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2009\/05\/01\/on_social_media\/","title":{"rendered":"On Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that’s been exercising my mates Eva<\/a> and Cameron<\/a>, and myself<\/a> (and passim<\/em>) since last<\/a> year is social media (or ‘Web 2.0’) and how it relates to scientists; scientists to it; and the rate with which Li-Kim<\/a> can down martinis. <\/p>\n

\nI’ve been invited to give the keynote at next week’s Research Information Network<\/a> Consultative Group meeting (Life Sciences & Medicine) and this issue has been niggling me for a while. I’ll be talking on social media tools and how scientists might benefit — if<\/em> they might benefit, in fact — and I hope to be able to spark a heated discussion and some worthwhile project ideas. Big ask, and I’ll be doing some serious thinking this weekend. <\/p>\n

\nThis afternoon, just after the dev team here at F1000<\/a> came up to me with something that I’ve been hassling to get for ages (mad props to them. I’ve always claimed that Friday afternoons are the best time to try new stuff, and these guys have really come up trumps) I read about something else<\/a> entirely, and a ready-made aphorism popped into my head. I don’t have a scanner so I can’t show you how I wrote it down, but here’s <\/p>\n

Grant’s First Law of Social Media<\/h1>\n

\nSocial media tools must work off the bat and have a defined value before most scientists will use them.<\/p>\n

Corollary<\/h2>\n

\nAny social media tool that is launched into the wild but requires user contribution<\/del> development to make it work will fail.<\/p>\n

\nDiscuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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