OpenWetWare:Presentations/Prather lab

what's a wiki?

• easy to edit, can't break it, history is tracked.

• Get an account: OpenWetWare:How to join
• Get started: Getting Started
• Get help: Help (also a Help link in the menubar on the left)

Prather Lab

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)
  • Helps with the rapid turnover of personel in labs, collaborative protocol editing tunes protocols used by several lab members, searchable, information.
• up-to-date, high content level lab webpage
  • remove the webmaster "bottleneck" - democratized contribution
  • Can even automatically remove the border so it looks nice. (OWW version)

the glitzy

unique opportunities on OpenWetWare

• publicize your work, prior to publication
  • OWW will probably be the top google hit for your name: google 'Prather Lab' - eek! who are those guys?
• collaborate
  • find out what people are doing right now across the world or just downstairs
• shared spaces
  • Shared protocols, materials, equipment, etc.
  • protocol example
• Hang out with your Synberc friends.

Feedback

• We're actively looking to make the site more useful to the scientific community, is there anything that you would like to see added?