Pronetos: The Social Network For Scholars
Colleagues/ An Interesting Saturday Morning Discovery /Gerry Pronetos is a home to communities and scholars of every academic discipline: a global think-tank of the leaders in your field. Share a paper with colleagues Find scholars in your field Post course materials Network and collaborate Find research in your field Post an announcement to your colleagues See the message board in your discipline Pronetos is a social network for scholars and an Open Access publisher. It provides an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content. With Pronetos, ideas are shared at the speed of thought, and those who create them control them. Pronetos is home to communities of every academic discipline - a global think-tank of the leaders in every field. Pronetos makes it easy for scholars to stay connected with thier colleagues, wherever they may be. Pronetos is a place for scholars to network, and build and share ideas with the greatest minds in their field [MORE] Links Available At [ http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2008/03/pronetos-social-network-for-scholars.... ] Happy Spring! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There is Nothing More Powerful Than An Idea Whose Time Has Come Victor Hugo [ http://www.blogger.com/profile/09093368136660604490 ] Iowa: Where the Tall Corn Flows and the (North)West Wind Blows [ http://alternativeenergyblogs.blogspot.com/ ]
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu> wrote:
Pronetos is home to communities of every academic discipline - a global think-tank of the leaders in every field. Pronetos makes it easy for scholars to stay connected with thier colleagues, wherever they may be. Pronetos is a place for scholars to network, and build and share ideas with the greatest minds in their field
I've just had a look at their site & they're claiming to have 335 members. It's reminded me that I joined something else a while ago, set up, I think, by Nature - which is aimed at "scientists". I've also joined a few educators social networks - but the only one that I'm active in is Eduspaces (despite all rocky times its had since December - now, hopefully sorted out) I've also had invitations to assorted networking tools - how do people decide which to join, and which to particpate in? And what about the sort of site I tend to view FAcebook as - the "blackhole" type - which makes it much easier to bring in external information than it does to let out information to someone on another network. I'm sure that there is some research done on it, but for now I'm more interested in anecdotes - just what's made you decide to join what you've joined, to continue & to not bother. For me: Eduspaces - I like the software ; and most users are (or were at the time, not quite so much now) Educational technologists or related. There are quite a few people on it who I know anyway & others I've met since. Facebook. I really don't like it; but I've got quite a few people I know who do, and due to it's blackholeness, I find I have to join to keep up with them. As I'm interested in student use of Social Networking, I kind of have to be there! I tend not, however, to join things - especially if I have a feeling that someone has invited me without really knowing whether or not I'm likely to want to join it. I'd rather join communities there that seem interesting to me. Ning. I've joined a few communities, but haven't been there for ages; mostly because in many ways it's even more blackholey than Facebook. I have to login for every community - I can't have a picture of everything I do - never mind following friends across communities. (unless they've changed, it's a while since I've been there) Of course, that could be useful if you like to keep work/ social communities etc., separate. (Which I do; but tend to do it by having most of my social activities either via email lists, or off line) Sorry for a longish email! It's what happens when you have a cold & haven't gone away this weekend - & there's rubbish on TV! -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator. Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/
Emma/ Thanks for your interest (again) [:-). Yes. The Nature Network. I profiled it last Fall [ http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/nature-network.html ] Yes. Eduspaces /Elgg . I profiled a year or so ago [ http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2007/04/social-networking-sites-not... ] Yes. Facebook. It Leaves Much To Be Desired ... [:-> Yes. Ning. I'm a member as well - But rarely interact ... [:-( I believe that comparision(s) of the various online social networking sites; I do some digging and blog when I find it/them. Hope You're Feeling Better ... Have a Great Week! /Gerry c: List
"Emma Duke-Williams" <emma.dukewilliams@gmail.com> 3/22/2008 3:10 PM >>> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck@iastate.edu> wrote:
Pronetos is home to communities of every academic discipline - a global think-tank of the leaders in every field. Pronetos makes it easy for scholars to stay connected with thier colleagues, wherever they may be. Pronetos is a place for scholars to network, and build and share ideas with the greatest minds in their field
I've just had a look at their site & they're claiming to have 335 members. It's reminded me that I joined something else a while ago, set up, I think, by Nature - which is aimed at "scientists". I've also joined a few educators social networks - but the only one that I'm active in is Eduspaces (despite all rocky times its had since December - now, hopefully sorted out) I've also had invitations to assorted networking tools - how do people decide which to join, and which to particpate in? And what about the sort of site I tend to view FAcebook as - the "blackhole" type - which makes it much easier to bring in external information than it does to let out information to someone on another network. I'm sure that there is some research done on it, but for now I'm more interested in anecdotes - just what's made you decide to join what you've joined, to continue & to not bother. For me: Eduspaces - I like the software ; and most users are (or were at the time, not quite so much now) Educational technologists or related. There are quite a few people on it who I know anyway & others I've met since. Facebook. I really don't like it; but I've got quite a few people I know who do, and due to it's blackholeness, I find I have to join to keep up with them. As I'm interested in student use of Social Networking, I kind of have to be there! I tend not, however, to join things - especially if I have a feeling that someone has invited me without really knowing whether or not I'm likely to want to join it. I'd rather join communities there that seem interesting to me. Ning. I've joined a few communities, but haven't been there for ages; mostly because in many ways it's even more blackholey than Facebook. I have to login for every community - I can't have a picture of everything I do - never mind following friends across communities. (unless they've changed, it's a while since I've been there) Of course, that could be useful if you like to keep work/ social communities etc., separate. (Which I do; but tend to do it by having most of my social activities either via email lists, or off line) Sorry for a longish email! It's what happens when you have a cold & haven't gone away this weekend - & there's rubbish on TV! -- Emma Duke-Williams: School of Computing/ Faculty eLearning Co-ordinator. Blog: http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~duke-wie/blog/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Gerry Mckiernan and Emma Duke-Williams Have listed: The Nature Network, Eduspaces, Facebook and Ning as networks for academics. Pronetos is added as a new-comer. I'm not surprised at the apparent lack of in depth knowledge of networks demonstrated by that list. Academics already have thousands of expert lists run by various universities that are well established as ways for each community of practice to keep in touch. One of the key benefits of PUBLIC networks is to make contact with industry and with the world of ideas beyond the university. Community contact is critical. For that reason I do recommend that all serious academics join LinkedIn, where you can profile your professional interests in a less formal way, so that you might attract the interest of external groups. You need to build more than 100 NON-university connections there to give your connection base diversity. Joining LinkedIn and connecting mainly to other academics (Which is what academics and government employees always do.) defeats the key value of LinkedIn. (19 million members, mostly business-people, with a good search capability.) In terms of "getting the message out" if the members of your department participate in a diverse range of social networking forums, there will be a two way benefit. Ryze, Xing, Ning, Ecademy and Viadeo immediately come to mind for me, but there are 100's of public social networks with forums that encourage open discussion, including parts of Facebook. As for a social network that is open to the public but is primarily for academics I recommend the struggling group at Academici. Academici has 22,000 members, but it's had a difficult birth and early childhood. It's currently being rebuilt for the THIRD time. Many of you may still be members of Academici. Take a trip back there and re-establish yourself. If you are not a member, perhaps that's something to consider. Today Academici understands much better what special tools an academic group would appreciate, and they are working hard to provide those. This single link will put you close to Ryze, LinkedIn, Academici, Viadeo and Xing. http://www.openfuture.biz/ For some useful advice on social networking try this directory: http://www.openfuture.biz/networking/ I'm particularly interested in working with universities in Australia and New Zealand to overcome the lack of awareness of the value of online social networking to develop the PERCEIVED VALUE of the university and of each university department. Contact me through the Open Future web site if you want to talk to me about that. Regards John
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John S Veitch (OFL)