1. Who knew I would get here from there: How I became the ChemConnector
Antony Williams
ACS San Francisco
August 2014

2. Who am I today?
I am VP Strategic Development, ChemSpider for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) - publisher
A founder of ChemSpider, RSC cheminformatics team manager, collaborations, business development, social marketing - cheminformatician
Oversee team developing solutions - manager
Scientific publications - scientist
Blogger, writer of books – author
I – social networker

3. My background… Worked in Government lab as postdoc
Academia as NMR Facility Manager
Fortune 500 Company as NMR Tech Leader
Start-up as product manager, marketing manager, Chief Science Officer
Consultant – chemistry informatics industry
Company owner – Created ChemSpider
Now at Royal Society of Chemistry (bought ChemSpider)

4. Do I inspire the next generation?

5. Do I inspire the next generation?

9. A New World of Contribution
Times have changed
Immediacy of social networks
Commenting on articles/data is here
The “participating scientist” has high profile
And who can be a scientist now???

10. A Ten Year Old Scientist

12. Inspiring in Cheminformatics..

13. The ChemDraw Wizard

14. What of Hexacyclinol?

15. The Blogosphere “Discusses”…

16. Oxidation by Sodium Hydride?

17. The Blogosphere Analyzes…

18. The Blogosphere Analyzes…

19. How much is in the archives?

20. Open Notebook Science Analysis

21. Faster Science, Better Science

22. Cheminformatics Communities Blue Obelisk: http://en. wikipedia

23. Twitter Contribution #RealTimeChem 2013
Twitter-based community project designed to encourage chemists to:
actively engage with one another online
by sharing what they are working on
at any given time

24. #RealTimeChem Still Active

25. I am ChemConnector

26. Why am I a Connector?

27. Why am I a Connector? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point
Connectors are the people in a community who know large numbers of people and who are in the habit of making introductions. A connector is essentially the social equivalent of a computer network hub. They usually know people across an array of social, cultural, professional, and economic circles, and make a habit of introducing people who work or live in different circles.

28. Endorsements

29. You will be a set of statistics & profiles
Number of papers, patents, citations, grants, ….
My Blog:
Twitter:
Amazon Author Page: Follow Link to Author Page
My Klout:
LinkedIn:
SlideShare:
Google Scholar Citations Profile: Antony Williams Citations
Researcher_ID:
Wikipedia :
Mendeley Profile:

30. Connections

31. Chemistry Social Networking
Methods of sharing MY science online include:
Wikis or blogs
Slideshare for presentations
YouTube for videos
Flickr, Wikimedia etc. for images
ChemSpider for chemistry
GoogleDocs for data
Google Scholar Citations for citations
Microsoft Academic Scholar for papers

32. Try and EXCITE students
What I am trying to do today is highlight what is possible with cheminformatics…what impact you can have with participating
What is available for them to use?
What can they contribute to?
How important cheminformatics will be to them?
Not everyone has to be a programmer – a basic knowledge of scripting goes a long way

33. ChemSpider

34. Cholesterol on ChemSpider

35. Computers outperform experts

36. 1D & 2D NMR Synchronized Processing
The Software displays correlations for assigned spectra and structures, and highlights correlations that are likely to be erroneous.

37. Single Molecule AFM

38. CASE vs Microscopy? DOI: 10.1002/anie.201203960

39. Try and not BORE students
There is work necessary to define the underpinnings
Molfiles
InChIs
Spectral formats
Chemical information searching
And so much to use….

40. LearnChemistry

41. SpectraSchool

42. SpectraSchool

44. LearnChemistry Wiki

45. Spectral Game

46. Helping Students Connect…
Career-wise, NOT having a personal presence online is likely already a detriment
Establishing a public profile
Getting on the record
Collaborative Science
Demonstrating a skill set
Measured using alternative metrics
Contributing to the public peer review process

47. An Adventure into the World of Small but significant contribution..

48. ChemSpider SyntheticPages

49. Micropublishing with Peer Review (a chemical synthesis blog?)

50. Multi-Step Synthesis

51. Interactive Data

52. Thank you
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Personal Blog:
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