Be a Blogger – A Guide to How and WhyAntony Williams

The Benefits of Blogging

Blogs allow passions, opinions, critiques, data and other “stuff” to be shared with the public

Visible to your community – if you do work to connect with your community

They can move you into a network of “knowns and unknowns”- make you “searchable and indexed”

Blogs are a low cost way to “do good” as well as “cause harm” – anyone can blog

Is time-consuming, can be challenging but more pluses than minuses

Google Blogger: https://www.blogger.com/start

Four Quadrants Poetry

Choose a Look and Feel

Set Up Your Blog and GO

It’s a simple editor…

Tell Your Story…Why RU Blogging?

And Away You Go….

Basic HTML Editing Fonts, Bold, Italic, Underline, …. “Formatting” Links, Embed Movies, Photos, Presentations

Embedding Images - Easy

Welcome to the Blogosphere…

Personal preferences… I moderate comments For some blog posts I use the web 2.0 network

About Me and ChemSpider

How Was ChemSpider Built?

ChemSpider was a “hobby project” Housed in a basement

That growth curve…

Very difficult to say why we saw growth: new resource, diverse data, focus on quality, all-inclusive approach to chemistry

And the spike?

The Monkeys at ChemZoo

http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=261

Blogs Can Educate Us All…

What is logP versus logD? Calcium carbonate IS soluble

Partially Soluble isn’t Insoluble

When experts say it’s ok: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/calcium-carbonate-logp-predictions-and-chris-lipinski.html

…and so into the Blogosphere

Network Yourself

Engage the community

Run Multiple Blogs…

Blogging

After 6 months of blogging….

http://tinyurl.com/plrrcj

Thank you

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