Communication 2.0

Getting a group of people into the same physical domain solely for the purpose of exchanging ideas is inefficient and often prohibitive. Remote communication and collaboration have been common practice for years in software design, and these practices are becoming increasing common in the sciences. Traditional forms of communication are also changing as a result of these trends. Slide presentations can now be shown interactively from a remote location, or easily packaged into an online presentation that can be consumed at the convenience of the target audience. Collaborative networks, blogs, virtual worlds, and other forms of network communication are providing new opportunities for communicating, but how best to use them? Things to explore:

Presentations

• Presenting remotely - Skype
• Stylistic trends
  • Creating great presentations - Terrific presentation about copyright law, but he also covers how to create a good content-driven presentation.
  • Slideology - Site run by Duarte, the design firm that advised Al Gore on "An Inconvenient Truth"
  • Presentation Zen

Collaboration/Interaction

• Social networks, crowd-sourcing, folksonomy - Nature Network, Bioinformatics World Wide, Open Wetware
• Collaborative office environments (Google Docs, Zoho Office)
• Virtual worlds - Second Life, Second Nature
• VoIP and Instant Messaging - Skype
• Information Streaming - Twitter

Casting

Video, pod, screen, poster, it's all being casted!

• JoVE
• SciVee
• VideoLectures
• iTunes U
• MIT Open Courseware
• Nature Podcast
• Bioscreencast
• SlideShare
• Vimeo

Research

• Aggregators & Filters - PhysOrg, Biowizard, Intute
• Citations & Alerts - Connotea, Endnote Web, Zotero

Animation

Want to create an animated description of the electron transport chain? It's not that hard.

• Kinemac
• Toon Boom

General Trends

• Brevity
• Interactivity
• Convenience
• Specialization
• Multimedia

UCI Resources

• Web Files - Remote file storage. Easy way to share or protect your files.
• Science Library Media Center