[OWW-SC] whats new section

[Jenny Nguyen]

Speaking of advertising OWW, do we have a link that describes "OWW in the
news" so that we can track of all the times that OWW has been mentioned
mention in the press, news article, etc?



On 5/18/07, Jennifer Braff <jcbraff at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>         I just wanted to note that we've had a few "What's New"
> announcements
> in the past that have linked to outside content, for example 2006 iGEM
> and 6/06 OWW mention in Nature.  These fall into the category of
> external links that relate to OWW (iGEM announcement notes that iGEM
> teams have OWW notebooks).
>         There is also currently the BU Synthetic Biology announcement,
> which
> is not specifically OWW news but is probably fine as it links to an OWW
> page on the conference.
>         The q-bio conference is in a different category as it neither
> links to
> an OWW page about the conference, nor is it directly related to OWW.  I
> think if we allow this type of link from the main page, we risk the OWW
> main page becoming just another science news page.  Since the main page
> is an important public face of OWW, perhaps we should continue a
> general policy of linking to OWW content, with exceptions for external
> content that is deemed especially relevant to OWW or open science.
>
> Have a good weekend-
> Jen
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 18, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Julius Lucks wrote:
>
> > I actually think the what's new section should not be just about OWW.
> > For example, the PLoS link that featured OWW on it (that Sri sent out
> > a while ago) was a great advertisement for OWW, but probably a better
> > one for PLoS - that it is not only a good source for journal content,
> > but other 'on the web' content that its readers might like. I think
> > we should open up the OWW highlights and what's new section so that
> > people can start to look at OWW as a portal for all sorts of content,
> > most of which is on the actual OWW site.
> >
> > Nature and Science both have highlights of other journal papers (and
> > even News and Views), which is probably the most useful thing about
> > those journals. I would like to see the OWW community able to
> > aggregate other sources and highlight them for the rest of the OWW
> > users (so I don't have to read a million RSS feeds myself.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julius
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > On May 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Jason Kelly wrote:
> >
> >> Someone posted an external link in the "what's new" section of the
> >> main page - to date we've had an "unofficial policy" limiting links on
> >> the main page to stuff that is actually on OpenWetWare. The idea
> >> being that we want to encourage people sharing stuff on OWW and
> >> promote good examples within the community.
> >>
> >> Do we want to ask them to make an OWW page about the conference? Do
> >> we want to change the policy?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> jason
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