Departmental blogs represented by people at the Thursday afternoon Science Online watch party:

• Breaking Waves (Oregon Sea Grant)
• Ingenium (College of Engineering)
• OSU Teaching (the Center for Teaching and Learning)
• Synergies (College of Public Health & Human Performance)
• TAC.FM – (Technology Across the Curriculum)

(At this point, my netbook froze up and I think I missed capturing other blogs mentioned by participants. Apologies! Feel free to comment below with your blog title & URL!)

Additional Sea Grant blogs listed on the right range from specific research/outreach topics to experiences of our graduate and undergraduate fellows, interns and scholars.

To get a sense of the broad range of blogs being written and published on the OSU WordPress platform, visit blogs.oregonstate.edu

Oregon Sea Grant blogs mentioned in Pat’s presentation can be found in our links, to the right.

NEW: The Social Media Revolution

Great new video illustrating the “why” of social media:

Additional resources:

• Our two-part coverage of  Julia Whitty’s spring 2011 workshop on Blogging for Science:
  • Part I – Why blog?
  • Part II – How to blog
• Slideshare - as seen above – is an excellent option for putting your presentations on the Web as  compact, fast-loading Flash slideshows. Added bonus: Nobody can swipe your slides.
• National Sea Grant Program Facebook page, including links to all Sea Grant program Facebook pages.
• Sea Grant Week 2010 – Sea Grant communicators joined forces to liveblog the New Orleans Sea Grant Week for their peers who could not attend. Value added through presentations, photographs, etc.
• Extending Extension – Jennifer Jahedkar of Texas A&M blogs about e-learning
• http://blogs.extension.org - Just getting started, the eXtension Foundation‘s effort to help Extension faculty across the country start blogging. Potentially good hosting option if your institution doesn’t offer a blogging platform.
• Electronic Papyrus – Extension communications faculty at Oregon State University blog about instructional communications.
• ReadWriteWeb – One of the most popular information technology blogs, and among the best for those who are truly interested in the changing tech landscape.

Got your own Sea Grant-related blog? Feel free to share the URL in the comments section.

Handy links to OSG social media and related sites, all in one place (Am I missing anything? Tell me in the comments.) :

Outreach oriented

Blogs:

• Breaking Waves (OSG news blog)
• H2ONC - Rob Emanuel’s blog about water, climate and community on the North Coast
• Words from a Wet Vet – Tim Miller-Morgan’s blog
• New: Buoy Tales. Visitor Center volunteers  Michael Courtney and Annie Thorp will blog their April 2010 research cruise aboard the RV Wecoma. We’ll be putting the blog’s RSS feed on the Visitor Center Web site to provide instant updates as they post them.
• Archived:  Sounds from the Southern Ocean – Bill Hanshumakers 2006 journal of his experiences on an Antarctic research expedition, which got us started on all this.

Podcasts

• Communicating Climate Change – Joe Cone’s audio and video interviews with leading social scientists on the challenges of communicating the complexities of climate change with the public.
• Ocean Learning – Podcast version of short video clips compiled for use with iPods at the HMSC Visitor Center (also available on iTunes)

Twitter:

• Oregon Sea Grant Twitter feed – Rick Cooper posts links to each new Breaking Waves blog entry
• H2ONCoast Twitter feed – Rob’s feeder for blog posts.

FaceBook

• Oregon Sea Grant fan page – Content from our Twitter feed is automatically reposted herem; Pat Kight occasionally adds other information and photos
• New: HMSC Visitor Center fan page – Within 24 hours of setting this page up and announcing it via a couple of email lists, it had 130+ fans.

Misc.

• OSG Flickr gallery – Photo sharing, with the public and within the program
  • Flickr photo pool – for OSG faculty and staff who have Flickr accounts to share/transfer photos with each other. Visible to all, but only approved subscribers can post photos
• Ning networks:
  • Sea Grant Sustainable Coastal Community Development Network
  • Sea Grant Climate Network

Internal use

The following sites are accessible – and in most cases, visible – only to logged in subscribers, but are included here as further examples of the variety of tools available to us.

Wikis

Easy document sharing, group editing and discussion, ala Wikipedia;  useful for team collaborative efforts. Note: OSU is no longer offering wiki support, so we can’t set up more of these, but older ones may be repurposed for new uses.

• Sea Grant Regional Research Collaborations (used byJulie Risien for  the West Coast Regional Research and Information Planning Process, and by Joe Cone for his two SARP climate projects)
• The Human Dimensions of Wave Power (For participants in Flaxen C0nway’s collaborative project)
• Sea Grant Communications Wiki (a place for the Communications team to develop, share, discuss and archive internal policies and procedures.)

File-sharing

• Sharepoint site (New secure file-sharing and collaboration site for all OSG faculty, staff and advisory council members. If you haven’t made yourselves familiar with this yet, you should.)
• Pacific Northwest Aquavets – A Google Groups site Tim Miller-Morgan uses to share and discuss content with professional peers around the region.