[OWW-SC] Fwd: Meeting request from Nature re: new Boston Nature website

[Drew Endy]

SC @ OWW folks,

I'll be meeting with ~5 people from Nature re: whatever Nature  
Network Boston is (below) next Thursday at 3p.
Join at my office if you want (we'll move to a 68-5x4 room).

Best,
Drew

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Corie Lok" <c.lok at boston.nature.com>
> Date: February 9, 2006 1:40:12 PM EST
> To: <endy at mit.edu>
> Cc: <isadora at mit.edu>
> Subject: Meeting request from Nature re: new Boston Nature website
> Reply-To: <c.lok at boston.nature.com>
>
> Dear Dr. Endy,
> I'm a news editor with Nature Publishing Group in the Cambridge  
> office.
> I will be the editor of a new news and community-building/social
> networking website for Boston-area researchers that should be  
> launching
> sometime this spring. It will be called Nature Network Boston.
>
> I, and a few of my colleagues within NPG, would like to meet with you
> next Thursday (Feb. 16) to tell you more about the project and to ask
> for your feedback on what kinds of online functionalities you and your
> collaborators might find useful on such a website. Given your role  
> with
> OpenWetWare, we are particularly interested in hearing your thoughts
> about how the web can be used to enhance research and networking.
>
> Would you be willing and able to meet with us Thursday Feb 16 for an
> hour or so? I'd also like to extend the invitation to another faculty
> member or researcher involved with OpenWetWare so please feel free to
> forward my email along. And if you aren't able to attend, perhaps you
> can suggest someone else we can approach.
>
> The other people from NPG in attendance will be the publisher of  
> Nature
> Network Boston (Joy Moore), the head of marketing for NPG (Greg
> Urquhart) and the lead technical person for the website (Gavin Bell).
> Since two of these people are coming in from out of town/country,
> Thursday is really our only day for this meeting, unfortunately.  
> But so
> far, the whole day is open for us.
>
> Kind regards,
> Corie
>
>
> -----------------
> Corie Lok
> Editor
> Nature Network Boston
>
> 25 First Street, Suite 104
> Cambridge, Massachusetts    02141
> Tel.: 617.475.9220
> Email: c.lok at boston.nature.com

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