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American Chemical Society
Social Networking
for Technical Divisions
Mark Carpenter
ACS Leadership Conference
January 21, 2011
Social Networking – What is it?
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Virtual Space which allows people to:
– Promote themselves (profile)
– Connect to others (friends)
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Share ideas or resources
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Collaborate
Started with Facebook and MySpace
– People connect (or reconnect) with friends
– Share information through the wall
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Professional sites include LinkedIn and ACS Network
Social Networking is NOT unprofessional networking
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Why Use Social Networks?
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Extend current activities to virtual space
– Augments face-to-face
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Removes limitations of Geography and Time
– Allows the community to tap into more of its members
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Sharing of information is more efficient
– Better than email
• Entire conversation
• Latest version of documents
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Leverages synergy of group to create bigger/better ideas
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Allows users to control the level of interaction
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What Can a Division Do on
a Social Network?
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Committees and Task Forces
– Private groups to allow discussions and document sharing
– Pre- and post-meeting work
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Meetings
– Use group page to highlight agenda and provide other information in single
place
– Discussions before and after meeting about content and logistics
– Promote special events
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What Can a Division Do on
a Social Network?
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Networking
– Promote expertise in a certain area
– Identify others with common interests
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Science
– Use an open group or forum to:
• Share science techniques, conferences, resources
• Discuss issues on a specific field/topic
• Promote offerings of division
• Collect feedback or input from members
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ACS Network
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Audience is chemical community
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Sign-on required, but membership not limited to ACS Members (ACS ID)
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Connect and communicate with others in Network
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Promote self via profile
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Basic collaboration tools include
– Threaded discussions
– Document Sharing
– Blogging
– Ideation – a new tool to discuss and prioritize ideas
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Ability to form and customize groups
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Share and discuss links to other websites (Bookmark this)
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Other Social Networks
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Facebook
– More socially oriented, although some business pages and uses
– Broad audience
– Good for sharing information
• Wall to wall
• Events
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LinkedIn
– Professionally oriented
– Broad audience
– Online resume – great for networking
– Allows for formation of groups and discussions
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Specialized Social Networks
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Flickr
– A social network to share photos.
– Commenting and group formation allowed
– User can set level of interaction with others
– In system messaging available
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YouTube
– A social tool to share videos
– Commenting and sharing available
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Twitter
– A social tool based on microblogging (140 characters) via mobile phone texting
– Available online or via RSS feeds
– Integration with ACS Network in future
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