Biotech Meet the Blogosphere

I’m sitting here in the Biotech and the Blogosphere breakout session at BIO 1008 in San Diego. It is the most sparsely attended session I’ve been to so far with only about 50 people in the room. 50 people who have admittedly made a point of being here to learn something, but given the overwhelming [...]

Observations of BIO2008 - Wednesday

Had another very productive day on Wednesday at the BIO 2008 conference making and strengthening connections. 
I’ve had a number of additional conversations on social networking in the biotechnology industry.

Genome Alberta has developed a Facebook Application that allows users to ‘give the gift of a gene’ to their friends on Facebook.  Each virtual gene comes with [...]

Social Networking and BIO

Had a great conversation the other day with Susan Cato, who is the person at BIO in charge of their online strategy.  BIO is continuing to be very progressive this year in engaging new media as a tool to help not only attendees connect with each other, but also as a way to connect and [...]

What’s Happening on the Internet?

We’re counting down the days now to the 2008 International Convention.  It’s time to get ready.  For those of you who’ve been before you know it’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to do.  The Internet has started buzzing with people who have their own ideas.
Stephen Albainy-Jenei of Patent Baristas has his own [...]

The BIO2008.org Newsroom: Staying “in the know”

We are excited to announce that we have launched our spiffy new BIO 2008 convention newsroom. Using a “social media” approach, we combined newsfeeds from our “BIO on the Road” blog, as well as convention press releases, a convention blogroll, and links to all of our community outlets:

BIO2008 Twitter group
BIO 2008 Facebook Group
BIO Convention LinkedIn [...]

Friends that link together, stay together

You will notice on the left ( <= ) two new ways of becomming better acquainted with BIO virtually with our LinkedIn and Facebook groups. Please feel free to pass on to your biotech contacts and join the thriving community that we are building online. The virtual world awaits!