Calling All Bloggers for #ISMB 2016
ISMB 2016 in Florida is fast approaching and we invite you to be involved in the live coverage of the event.
In previous years, ISMB has been way ahead of the social media curve with microblogging in 2008, one year before the launch of Flickr, one year after the launch (in the USA) of the Apple original iPhone 1, and just two years after Twitter was founded. Now at the last count, Twitter has averaged at 310 million users and Tumblr owners publish approximately 38,000 new blog posts every minute.
We all know that, in like-fashion, social media is a growing aspect of conferences, — read more in our Ten Simple Rules for Live Tweeting at Scientific Conferences, — and so we decided to harness this at the ISMB conference.
Members of the ISCB Student Council took up the challenge and provided a fantastic range of live coverage of the ISMB 2015 conference in Dublin. They composed and shared a great variety of blog posts that shared their experiences of the day and their views on particular talks. View last year’s posts here.
How can you be involved
We want you to take part in live blogging at ISMB this year!
If you are planning to attend the conference in Florida and you blog or tweet, or even if you would like to try it for the first time, we want to hear from you — Everyone can get involved.
Our invitation extends to attendees from all backgrounds and experience who could contribute blog posts covering the conference. In addition we are looking for a number of ‘super bloggers’ who can commit to blogging two to three high-quality posts or who would be interested in interviewing certain speakers at the conference. If you are speaking at ISMB and would like to be involved, please do also get in touch.
In acknowledgment of your time and effort, each contributor will receive a PLOS Computational Biology t-shirt (only available at ISMB 2016) and your work will be shared on the PLOS Medium.com page, making it easier for all to contribute and collaborate.
What are the next steps?
If you want to help us share the latest and greatest from ISMB 2016 conference, please email us at ploscompbiol@plos.org with a bit about your background and how you’d like to contribute by Monday 4th July 2016. See you in Florida!
