What’s new at ScienceOnline?
Heat of summer is coming, but we are not falling asleep. ScienceOnline community, and the organization under the able leadership of executive director Karyn Traphagen, is busy planning future events and projects. Our flagship conference, now renamed ScienceOnline Together, is in full swing of preparation. The eighth annual event will be held on February 26 – March 1, 2014. in Raleigh, NC, and the planning wiki will be open for submissions in a couple of days – keep an eye on the #sciox hashtag on Twitter, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus. The local satellite events...
Read MoreScienceSeeker Awards and Update
There were more than 350 posts nominated for the inaugural ScienceSeeker Awards! Congratulations to everyone who was nominated and to everyone who nominated a post. In case you don’t remember what ScienceSeeker is, it is the the official portal of the ScienceOnline community for collecting, curating, and filtering science writing. ScienceSeeker is itself a project of ScienceOnline, and is the primary tool that the Library of Congress is using in order to help determine how to preserve online science writing for posterity. The awards contest, which was announced at the ScienceOnline2013...
Read MoreUpdate on ScienceSeeker Contest!
It’s one month into the nominations period for the inaugural ScienceSeeker Awards, and there is just one month left to nominate your favorite posts for the contest! In case you don’t remember how to nominate a post, it’s really simple: just find that post’s entry on ScienceSeeker (hint: use the filters and search box on the right sidebar), and click the little trophy icon. Then, you’ll be prompted to identify for which of the ten categories above you’d like to nominate the post. All nominated posts are also automatically considered for “Post of the Year.” Remember,...
Read MoreThe Tale of ScienceOnline (& YOUR part in it)
A long, long time ago (OK, just 6 years)… In the beginning there was Anton and Bora and an idea. An idea that conversation and community were important for those who were embracing the Web. Thus began the science blogging conferences now known as ScienceOnline. Then the two became three, and Karyn joined the team to help organize and cultivate the community that met annually in NC and online all year under the banner ScienceOnline. After 6 years of volunteering their time, money, and heart, the three founded a nonprofit organization that would not only carry on the conference, but...
Read MoreScienceSeeker launches massive upgrade powered by NASW grant
NOTE: ScienceSeeker is a project of ScienceOnline. We are thrilled to help announce the launch of this significant update to the tool and site. The following article is also published on the ScienceSeeker blog. Today we launch the most significant update to ScienceSeeker ever. Instead of just following the 1200+ sources in our database, now you can easily search them to find reliable discussion of today’s most vexing scientific issues. The prominent search bar at the top of the site is your entry to a whole world of science you may not have even known you are missing. Since we now index...
Read MoreAnnouncing the Editor of Open Laboratory 2013
Usually this announcement comes out much earlier in the year, but the transition from Lulu.com to FSG has changed all the dates – the cycle is now different. But still, it’s high time to announce the Guest Editor for the next edition of The Best Science Writing Online, the annual anthology of the best science writing on blogs, a project of ScienceOnline.com. After much deliberation and consultation with the 2012 editor Jennifer Ouellette and SciAm/FSG book editor Amanda Moon, I have finally picked the new Guest Editor, and am very pleased to announce that I will spend the next...
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