December 30, 2011

Some quick ScienceOnline2012 updates

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ScienceOnline2012 is only about three weeks away!

The Program is set in stone, including the Blitz talks.

The main hotel is full, but there is still room in the overflow hotel. Save space (and your own money) by finding a room-mate, and/or carpooling.

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Aside from the main Program, there will be many additional events and activities. For example, during the Friday banquet, we'll have a storytelling event organized by our friends at The Monti. There will be an Art Show, Open Mic night, a book/swag show and exchange, a Science tattoo trip, stand-up comedy (Saturday lunch), an art+photo nature walk (sign-up coming soon) and several lab/museum tours (info and sign-up coming very soon).

Some sessions and workshops require advance preparation (at least thinking), e.g,. the Media training workshop and Blogging Science While Female. One workshop actually will be by sign-up - Science Scribe 2.0. Come prepared!

Blog coverage is already growing - if you blog about #scio12, please let us know or just add your link to the wiki. The participants' blogroll is growing, as more people are slowly moving from the (enormous) waitlist into registration.

There will be good wifi, good coffee and food at all times. But we are still not sure we can afford the livestreaming, and still do not have sufficient funds for all the travel grants for students coming from far away. So we are still open for new sponsorships or donations.

Learn more:

Google Plus official page

Google Plus circle of participants

Twitter account

#scio12 hashtag

Twitter repository

Twitter list of participants

Previous conferences

Nice things people said about ScienceOnline2010

ScienceOnline2011 on YouTube

ScienceOnline2011 on Flickr

ScienceOnline2011 official recordings

Previously in this series:

What is: ScienceOnline2012 – and it’s coming soon!

ScienceOnline participants’ interviews

Some updates on #scio12, #NYCscitweetup, Story Collider and more.

Updates: ScienceOnline2012, Science blogging, Open Laboratory, and #NYCSciTweetup

ScienceOnline2012 - we have the Keynote Speaker!

Mathematics - Algebra and Statistics and more - at ScienceOnline2012

Information, data and technology at ScienceOnline2012

Health and Medicine at ScienceOnline2012

Education at ScienceOnline2012

Movies and Video at ScienceOnline2011

Sound and Music at ScienceOnline2012

Visual Communication at ScienceOnline2012

Submissions for the Cyberscreen Science Film Festival are now OPEN!

Scientists and the Media, at ScienceOnline2012

Writing, narrative and books at ScienceOnline2012

Outreach, activism and persuasion at ScienceOnline2012

Updates: #scio12, #soNYC, #NYCSciTweetup and more.

Making it in the new media ecosystem, at ScienceOnline2012

ScienceOnline2012 Call for Entries: Science-Art Show!

Science + Storytelling + Good (Food & Drink) = The Monti at ScienceOnline2012 Banquet

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