Practicing Social Media in a Safe Setting

1.  What social media tools does Bio-Link use?

Bio-Link uses a List Serve, Facebook, LInkedIn, RSS, and Twitter to reach out and communicate with our community.

•     Reach out to industry, students, and alumni, post and share jobs, poll & get feedback from biotech community

•     post updates, share pictures, info

•     People can subscribe to our blogs and site via RSS

•     Post links to news items

•     Send email

More info in the Bio-Link Guide to Social Media

2.  Shared note taking with Twitter:

• JGI Sequencer meeting   http://storify.com/phylogenomics/jgi-user-meeting-day-1-2
• ISB Symposium on microbiome:  http://storify.com/brianduggan/isbsymp-favorite-quotes-and-highlights

3.  Tweet chat examples:

                 White House tweet chat :  Kumar Garg with teachers, #WHChat

                 via Storify:   http://storify.com/whitehouse/stem-office-hours

                  Science education journal club:  #SciTeachJC

3.  Sign up for Twitter account. 

4.  Post something you've learned at Hi-TEC - use #hitec2012 as the hash tag.

           What is a hash tag?   A "#" is called a "hash"

                                                  A tag is a word or phrase to describe something.

 View Tweets

Twitter Safety advice:  

• Do not click links from people you don't know

• Do not follow your students - use a hash tag for discussions