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General Forums => Generic Discussion => Topic started by: Mitch on February 28, 2007, 01:49:06 AM
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Expect to see more blog entries around general chemistry and chemical technology topics. The technology aspect is not meant to be about new instrumentation and methods to mass produce quinine for the global marketplace, but instead will focus on how the modern internet, Web 2.0, is/will affecting Chemistry, or Chem 2.0 for short. Also, I am interested in getting some help with the blog, and I am currently looking for a co-blogger for the Chemical Forums Blog. If you are interested please have a look at this thread: http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=13202.0 So lets begin...
Relatively new startup Ning (http://www.ning.com) has made it ridiculously easy for the novice web user to create a fully functioning social network for any topic the user could be interested in. I went ahead and used their interface to make the following Chemistry social network. Image is shown below.
(https://www.chemicalforums.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.chemicalforums.com%2Fblog-ning.png&hash=2e63341833c70c4ad365f9387f4cff878c7092cc) (http://chemistry.ning.com)
Their very easy to use and free interface allows you to create a site that has a Blog, Videos, Photos, Forum, Members List. If you already have a blog from an other blogging platform it is ridiculously easy to seamlessly integrate it into your Ning social network. To interact with the portal shown above goto http://chemistry.ning.com and play around with it. One can imagine using this type of software to seamlessly create a community around an already established blog or for a professor to use it as his or hers group website or class website. Ning also accommodates the usual assortment of widgets and flash, but writing about integrating those kinds of bells-and-whistles is probably beyond the interest of this audience, so I'll fortunately skip that. Go check it out! http://chemistry.ning.com
Note 1: I have no intention on keeping that social network up to date, I only created it to mess around with it.
Note 2: Recently nailed the secret identity of ?*? of Carbon-Based Curiosities (http://coronene.blogspot.com/) fame. I love sending a message to the anonymous blogger containing a picture of themselves. So which anonymous chem blogger is left to unravel?
Mitch
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Try to nail down my email-address :P
Btw. this Ning thingy is tremendously slow. Well, at least your test site didn't scroll at convenient speed in Opera.
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Ning does not appear to work with a ? character.
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Ummm... that is super easy to do. You want me to list the gmx or the ac.uk address?
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Ummm... that is super easy to do. You want me to list the gmx or the ac.uk address?
You have superior powers as an admin. Now the question is whether you would have found out my surname without the gmx address. Haha.
Sure send me an email to my ac.uk account. Always happy to extend my network. Btw. you don't happen to be on facebook Mitch?
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i'm on facebook, Equi! i messaged you. find me!
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You have superior powers as an admin. Now the question is whether you would have found out my surname without the gmx address. Haha.
That's why I'm good at this hobby. Also, I'm technically on facebook, but haven't been there in years.
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i'm on facebook, Equi! i messaged you. find me!
Add me, I'm sure you'll easily figure out my full name from the email address I left in your blog comments.
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Finding my name through the internet takes all of like, 10 seconds. I really should start upping my privacy...
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Finding my name through the internet takes all of like, 10 seconds. I really should start upping my privacy...
If you are going to be a chemist and publishing research papers, you have no chance at remaining anonymous.
So why bother, that’s my theory anyway.
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it took you THIS long to figure out psi*psi's identity? I had her pegged since that post on Carbon based curiosities with the fluorescent TLC plates.
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Unfortunately, I think my boss might say the same...
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It takes us non-organic types a little longer to determine a secret identity from a TLC plate.
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There are more chemistry networks now. Please have a look at http://chemions.grou.ps
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Has anyone utilized the ChemIons group?
What methods have you guys used to generate more social networking within chem circles. Clearly during actual conferences etc... but electronically has anyone had real success?
I work in a fairly small segment of the industry (organosilanes) and so the pond is pretty small - and I am not even a big fish! I am looking to reach out to others in related arenas to strike up some inter-disciplinary research and ideas.
Appreciate any thoughts/ideas.
Cheers,
BZ