OpenWetWare:Presentation on how OWW is useful to a lab - 3/1/06

the mundane

things that you do already offline but might be more effective on the wiki

• meeting organization (lab meetings, retreat planning, etc)
• ordering
• lab jobs
• equipment pages
  • control experiments, etc.

the practical

things you may not do currently, but which are easy on a wiki

• long term storage of lab information (protocols)
  • Rapid turnover in labs, collaborative protocol editing to tune

protocols in house, searchable information.

• up-to-date, high content level lab webpage
  • remove the webmaster "bottleneck" - democratized contribution

the glitzy

unique opportunities on OpenWetWare - publicize your work, prior to publication

• • OWW will probably be the top google hit for your name

- collaborate

• • find out what people are doing right now accross the world / or more

importantly accross the hall

• • opportunities for colab are few and far between, etc

- shared spaces

• • Shared protocols pages, materials, strains, etc.

4. Feedback - you've seen the site, what's the main reason for not taking advantage?

• • were actively looking to make the site more useful, is there

anything you would want?