by kevindooley
Conference blogging: icons for presenters:
[Via Genetic Future]
A while back I pondered the possibility of creating icons for conference presenters to add to their first slide to alert bloggers/tweeters in the audience about whether the presented data was “blog-safe”. This was provoked by a recent episode illustrating general confusion among bloggers (in this case, me) and scientists about the use of social media at conferences.
Fellow Australian-turned-UK-resident-scientist Cameron Neylon has now put together a handy set of slides for presenters to label both “blog-safe” and “no-blogging” presentations. The slides have a ccZero license and so are freely available for download and modification; the original icons can be found on Cameron’s Flickr account and Christopher Ross’ website.
I think these slides are a great start, and I’d encourage anyone interested in the interface between science and social media to consider modifying them for their own presentations. I’d see the slides as being useful in a variety of situations:
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This illustrates some of the disruptive effects of new technologies. In the old days there were journalists and there were researchers at scientific conferences. The journalists knew when they could write about the talks and when the talks were were embargoed.
But with live blogging the line between the groups have disappeared and confusion has risen. Social groups always have a little trouble dealing with such disruptions but adaptive groups figure out ways around.
This looks like a nice approach. Let the presenters publicly declare what can be blogged and what can not. Now we just need to make this an active part of everyone’s presentation.
