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American Chemical Society
The ACS Network –
A tool for volunteer leaders
www.acs.org/acsnetwork
Why are Social Tools Important?
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Evolving as a new communication paradigm in the professional world
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Facilitates between meeting interactions
– Augments face-to-face
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Eliminates need barriers of time and geography.
– 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 a group to create bigger/better
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Allows users to control the level of interaction
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Goal for Social Tools and ACS
Social tools can extend the already existing activities of
the ACS and chemical community
to virtual space, leveraging benefits
of efficiency and inclusiveness.
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ACS Network Overview
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An online social tool that allows the
chemical community for networking
AND collaboration.
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Open to all ACS Members and
those interested in chemistry and
the chemical sciences
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>220k network members in
167+countries
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3-5k new members each month
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Activity is increasing
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Advantages of the ACS Network
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For the chemical community – broad, but focused
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Connects leaders, volunteers, members, researchers, and staff
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Secure, trusted environment
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A central location for all your ACS business
– Uses common login and password
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In the future – ACS Network may integrate with other tools, apps, and
other ACS systems to bring a unique value to ACS Members.
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What members are doing in the
Network
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Create Profiles: The ACS Network allows every user to provide a
detailed profile with their education, work and ACS experience. They can
list their publications and any other links important to them
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Build Networks: Connect, reconnect and establish professional contacts
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Engage in Discussions: The ACS Network allows everyone to
participate in discussion forums. These forums are dynamic and anyone
can ask and answer questions
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Share Content: Members can upload files of almost any format or create
a page that they can share with the community. Draft, edit and comment
on documents.
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And More………….
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Your Profile
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Include information about yourself
– City and State, Local Section and Division – from ACS Membership record
– Career stage, Years of Experience, Area of Expertise, Interests
– ACS Activities
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Privacy – Determine who can see these fields
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Picture and Avatar
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Special sections for Publications, Experience, Education
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Tag
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Tags
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Allow content to be found by
keywords
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May include people, profile
information, groups documents,
discussions, bookmarks, blog
posts, videos, etc.
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Tag clouds available
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Categories are collections of tags
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Building your Network
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Connect yourself to colleagues and
others
– People you meet at meeting
– Former Colleagues
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Once ‘friended’, you can view the
connections of your friends
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Assign private tags allows you to
sort
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Communicate with groups of
friends
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Follow friends – email alerts when
they post
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Content on ACS Network
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Types of content:
– Discussions, Documents
– Uploaded files
– Blogs
– Videos
– Bookmarks
– Ideas
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“Liking” or Rating
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Follow, Track
– Email notifications
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Controlled collaboration
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“Searching” and Filtering
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Places = Groups and Forums
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Search & Filtering
– Search Box
– Browse
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What Matters?
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Functionality on the go
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Creating/responding to content via email
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Mobile access for iPhone, Droid and
BlackBerry devices
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Microblogging/ Status Updates and Twitter
http://bitly.com/acsntwk
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Content by email
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Creating by email:
– Email address identifies type and placement of content.
– Get this address from the actions box in that space
• Requires you to login
– System will recognize you via your email address
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Respond by email:
– Receive email notifications on content, groups, forum, or people
– Reply to email notification
• Inserts response to discussion, documents, etc.
• Not necessary to go into Network
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Both requires initial visit to Network to set up interactions.
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Groups
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Groups to bring together people
with a common task or interest
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Create a Group to:
– Draft and share documents
– Start discussions and facilitate
work between meetings
– Post a summary of key outcomes
or highlights from your meetings
– Encourage dialog
– Discuss and prioritize ideas
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With a group you can:
– Set access to Open, Members
Only, Private or Secret
– Customize home page, content
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Customize with Widgets
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Customize your individual and
Group layout
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Drop and drag widgets
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Select the content that you want
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How can the ACS Network help my
committee
Executive Level Groups
– Share/store documents
– Facilitate discussion
– Build consensus
– Enable private discussions
Public Groups
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Expand reach beyond committee
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Give members a voice
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Encourage feedback and communication
Support Groups/Public Forums
– Ask questions, seek advice, get new ideas
– Promote initiavives
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ACS Network Use Cases Demo
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LSAC/CCA/DAC/CEPA
– Agenda book, links to subcommittee groups, consensus building
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ChemClubs
– Secret group for a public audience. Collects and offers resources.
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CINF
– On-line Space for Information Sharing, Gathers other related information –
RSS Feeds
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S3G
– Collaboration on Documents
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ACS Staff Group
– Information Sharing and Ideation
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Questions
Christine Schmidt
Senior Product Manager
[email protected]
https://communities.acs.org/people/Chrisbb
www.acs.org/network
https://communities.acs.org/community/general/support
[email protected]
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