SciLink Blog

If you haven’t heard, we recently updated the site with events, meetings and conference listings. At SciLink we’re trying hard to keep you up to date with the scientific world and your network. We do this in a number of different and complementary ways. First, your dashboard is a portal into all the activity in SciLink. We feed global activity to you: new jobs, events and groups that have been created so you know what’s going on in the SciLink community and don’t need to go to a hundred web pages to try and figure it out for yourself. Next, we roll up your network’s activity by funneling the papers your network is reading, events they are attending and groups they’ve joined. All these features let you keep abreast of what’s going on in your community.

The event, conference and meetings part of our site gets you even more connected by allowing you to plan and share what meetings and events you are interested in. It even helps find events that you might never have known about before!

Right now SciLink lets you rate and create comments for events you’re attending. We plan on more interesting features in the near future. So, why not take a look right now? It’s simple to get started! Click here to see a listing of conference, events and meetings!

If you’re planning a meeting or event head on over and post and event today!. SciLink is a great way to get the word out!

In a previous post, I wrote about our vision for the SciLink system. One of our goals is to provide a high quality job board where hiring managers can post interesting opportunities to find the most highly qualified candidates. To that end, we have taken steps to make our job board more visible to search engines by posting our jobs on an external page. You may find the job board at:
SciLink Job Board

Over the next few weeks we will start augmenting the page found above with some great new tools to let you leverage the full power of your network.

Stay Tuned!

-Brian

This is just a brief note letting you know about some fun and exciting SciLink updates. Here’s the executive summary:

• New Job Board - We’ve updated our job board making it much more user friendly. You can post job openings for free until July 1st.
• SciLink Videos - We scoured the web and found some really fun and interesting talks. Want to suggest a video? Contact us at: connect@scilink.com. Videos are on your dashboard enjoy!
• Group Page Update - We updated the group pages to make it easier to search for groups you may be interested in. We’ve also started to categorize groups. Group owners can categorize their own groups if we haven’t already.
• Featured Groups - We’ll be featuring groups that we find interesting and posting them on the main group page. Those groups with more participation will be posted there
• Sponsored Groups - want to sponsor a group? Contact us at connect@scilink.com for more information
• Dashboard Update - Groups your network has joined is now a new widget on your dashboard. You can now see what groups your network has become part of
• We re-added the Citation Manager to the navigation section - The citation manager allows you to find and store bookmarks to interesting content on the web. It automatically recognizes a number of different journal websites and will download abstracts for you.

Enjoy!

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we added the ability for you to draw chemical structures in the “edit profile” section of the site and associate those structures with your blog. I am pleased to say that a fair number of users have been drawing structures and putting them into their profiles. One user, William Gunn took some time and drew a very large structure. Can you figure out what it is and why it’s funny? Take a look below: