By bluerasberry on 2012-04-22
I soon move to New York City to work as Wikipedian in Residence for Consumer Reports. A Wikipedian in Residence is a Wikipedia ambassador to an organization. In my case, I will work at Consumer Reports and help the organization establish relationships with Wikipedia. Consumer Reports is a famous United-States based consumer advocacy group. It […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged bioethics, blood, campus ambassador, malaria
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-21
I am posting some examples of silly ads in this post. These are not my ads and they are not clickable – they are for illustration purposes and I explain them in this post. I do not feel that the mainstream media perspective about Wikipedia or other encyclopedias is reasonable. In this post I am […]
Posted in education, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, book, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2012-02-16
On Monday 13 February Sharon Terry of Genetic Alliance was in Seattle and gave a talk at the Public Health Cafe. The Public Health Cafe is a community science presenation organized by the UW Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Science. I love it! I had seen Sharon’s YouTube video explaining why she got into the […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, non-profit, Open access, presentation, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged Genetic Alliance, Jon Izant, Public Health Cafe, Sage Bionetworks, Sharon Terry
By bluerasberry on 2012-02-08
I talked with Jami Mathewson from the Wikimedia Foundation on 13 December about the campus ambassador program. We talked a bit since then, and then on 6 February we had a long talk and I agreed to be the regional contact for campus ambassadors, professors, or anyone else who wanted to join Wikipedia’s Campus Ambassador […]
Posted in Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged campus ambassador
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-30
I am all about biobanks now. A biobank is a type of biorepository which stores human biological specimens long-term for future research. I have been having encounters with biobanks for years and always had questions about them, and I have even had some conflicts with researchers on this topic. Recently I met someone who develops […]
Posted in biobanks, non-profit, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged NWABR, publishing, social media
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-13
The HVTN conference was from November 7-9. I was there every day. It was cool and I learned stuff but of course the point of a conference is meeting people and making plans together. There was a meetup in the conference which was only for people who are involved in community education, so no scientists. […]
Posted in HIV, presentation, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HVTN
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-26
On Tuesday 25 October from 7-9 Kat and I hosted a Seattle Wikipedia meetup for the “Wikipedia loves libraries!” program. The intent of the meetup was to promote local libraries, and Wikipedia had encouraged all users around the country to do the same thing in their own regions. I was fresh from Infocamp was was […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged coffee, meetup
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-14
I made this list on Wikipedia. It is awesome and in some form it is going to be read by millions of people and in its own small way it is going to have an impact on their lives. List of libraries in Seattle This was for Wikipedia loves Libraries!, an initiative to get people […]
Posted in research, Wikipedia | Tagged library, website
By bluerasberry on 2011-08-04
Yesterday I got a letter from someone at the Kaiser Family Foundation. She is a PR person who was editing her organization’s Wikipedia article, and since I was watching that article, I immediately knew she was changing it. I wrote to her offering to help her develop the article, and she sent me back a […]
Posted in non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged ad campaign