Many of us nowadays invest significant amounts of time in sharing our activities and opinions with friends and family via social networking tools. However, despite the many platforms available for scientists to connect and share with their peers the majority do not make use of these tools, despite their promise and potential impact on our future careers. We are being indexed and exposed on the Internet via our publications, presentations, and data. We have many more ways to contribute to science, to annotate and curate data, and to “publish” in new ways. This presentation will provide an overview of the various types of networking and collaborative sites available to scientists, and ways to expose your scientific activities online. Many of these can ultimately contribute to the developing measures of you as a scientist, as identified in the new world of alternative metrics. Participating offers a great opportunity to develop a scientific profile within the community and may ultimately be very beneficial, especially to scientists early in their career.
