Cat herding: The challenges and rewards of... - Science Online London

Ariklia talks about the needs of bloggers from a scienceblogs.com perspective: technical support, analytics, identity. - Martin Fenner

Technical needs being met for bloggers: thinking MT4... ;-) - Heather

Ariklia briefly talks about her experience with flame wars. - Martin Fenner

Formation of relationships... online and IRL... not clear what relationship is to cat herding?! - Heather

Err, Heather - I've heard tales... - Bob O'Hara

ah - community building. Corie unwittingly provided answer. - Heather

Heather, how is Second Life doing? Can you hear the speakers clearly? - Martin Fenner

Perfect, and someone even reoriented the camera so we can see panel speakers (it's small for me, but it works). - Heather

Corie says manager presence and core group of key users vital for moderation and animation of site - Heather

Heather, thanks a lot for live-blogging from abroad. That's a new experience. - Martin Fenner

Having seeding people (I would call them evangelists) is important for online science communities to gain traction. - Martin Fenner

Brief introduction to ResearchGate by Ijad Madisch. - Martin Fenner

ResearchGate is currently focussing on tools for institutions, e.g. to create sub-communities. - Martin Fenner

So many communities, so little time. Aggregation versus fragmentation. - AJCann

Next step for ResearchGate: API that will allow scientists to add their own applications. - Martin Fenner

Hmmm. Nature Network could do with an API. - Bob O'Hara

30% of ResearchGate users log in at least once a month. - Martin Fenner

Is "logging in" "active" in terms of community? - AJCann

It's probably the old 90/9/1 rule where 1% of users are really active, and 9% use the service regularly. - Martin Fenner

Scienceblogs.com used to have big problems with spam. - Martin Fenner

Which is not to say that "lurkers" don't gain something, but they contribute little to "community". - AJCann

Corie: no correlation between group size and level of activity. - Martin Fenner

I think Sb solved the spam problem by breaking the commenting system. :-) - Bob O'Hara

Private groups more active than public groups? - AJCann

Corie: Collaborations seeded by online communities will take time to come to measurable fruition - Heather

Corie: giving examples like GoogleDocs sum-up of use of FriendFeed Life Scientists' room. - Heather

Ijad: Realtime feedback on ResearchGate good for lab troubleshooting when it's actually needed - Heather

Question from audience - Social anthropology - correlation between group size and activity? Not only internal lawyers desirable but internal anthropologists also :-) - Heather

Cemeron N requests social anthropology studies of online scientific communities. How do we know what works if we don't measure it? - AJCann

survival of the fittest in online communities - if anyone could really project then someone would be making bucketloads of money - Heather

Addition of aggregation functions - conflicts with the "filtering" argument? - AJCann

The doc Corie mentioned is at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... . - Daniel Mietchen

Blog post for this presentation up at http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009... - Allyson Lister

Bye! Won't be able to be back after lunch. Well done in particular Allyson and thanks to Daniel for posterity. - Heather

Thanks for the coverage, have a good lunch, folks! - Bob O'Hara

Hi everyone. Thanks for live-blogging. I hope this session was helpful or at least entertaining :) - Arikia

Sb allows individual bloggers to set comment preferences. My comments are open, and so far the spam volume has been minimal. 'Course, mine is a young blog... - D0r0th34