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?<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jennifer Braff</b> <<a href="mailto:jcbraff@mit.edu">jcbraff@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just wanted to note that we've had a few "What's New" announcements<br>in the past that have linked to outside content, for example 2006 iGEM<br>and 6/06 OWW mention in Nature. These fall into the category of
<br>external links that relate to OWW (iGEM announcement notes that iGEM<br>teams have OWW notebooks).<br> There is also currently the BU Synthetic Biology announcement, which<br>is not specifically OWW news but is probably fine as it links to an OWW
<br>page on the conference.<br> The q-bio conference is in a different category as it neither links to<br>an OWW page about the conference, nor is it directly related to OWW. I<br>think if we allow this type of link from the main page, we risk the OWW
<br>main page becoming just another science news page. Since the main page<br>is an important public face of OWW, perhaps we should continue a<br>general policy of linking to OWW content, with exceptions for external<br>
content that is deemed especially relevant to OWW or open science.<br><br>Have a good weekend-<br>Jen<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On May 18, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Julius Lucks wrote:<br><br>> I actually think the what's new section should not be just about OWW.
<br>> For example, the PLoS link that featured OWW on it (that Sri sent out<br>> a while ago) was a great advertisement for OWW, but probably a better<br>> one for PLoS - that it is not only a good source for journal content,
<br>> but other 'on the web' content that its readers might like. I think<br>> we should open up the OWW highlights and what's new section so that<br>> people can start to look at OWW as a portal for all sorts of content,
<br>> most of which is on the actual OWW site.<br>><br>> Nature and Science both have highlights of other journal papers (and<br>> even News and Views), which is probably the most useful thing about<br>> those journals. I would like to see the OWW community able to
<br>> aggregate other sources and highlight them for the rest of the OWW<br>> users (so I don't have to read a million RSS feeds myself.)<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Julius<br>><br>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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<br>> ----<br>><br>><br>><br>> On May 18, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Jason Kelly wrote:<br>><br>>> Someone posted an external link in the "what's new" section of the<br>>> main page - to date we've had an "unofficial policy" limiting links on
<br>>> the main page to stuff that is actually on OpenWetWare. The idea<br>>> being that we want to encourage people sharing stuff on OWW and<br>>> promote good examples within the community.<br>>>
<br>>> Do we want to ask them to make an OWW page about the conference? Do<br>>> we want to change the policy?<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>> jason<br>>> _______________________________________________
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