For the very first time, this year Science Online London hosted a selection of lively workshops that formed the schedule for the second day of the conference.

Four simultaneous workshops, each divided into 90 minute sessions were available. Attendees could select two of these workshops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The afternoon workshops were more advanced and attendees had the option to choose a different workshop, or to dive deeper into the same session in the afternoon. Each workshop used information relevant to SMA research.

You can find out more about the workshops here and take a look at our Storify below which archives the tweets from each of the sessions.

You can also find links to blog posts and other related coverage in the storyboard. Do let us know if we have left anything out. Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

The second day of Science Online London got off to an excellent start with a keynote from neuroscientist MaryAnn Martone. MaryAnn also set the tone for the workshops, explaining the current limitations and need for better use of tools and information in the context of SMA, a rare disease that afflicts infants.

Below is a Storify archiving the tweets from her talk, you can also find links to blog posts and other related coverage in the storyboard. Do let us know if we have left anything out.

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

Below is a Storify archiving the tweets from the first panel on Day 2 of Science Online London. The topic of discussion was Dealing with data. The panel’s aim was to look at how data is transforming and affecting scientific research and communication, from data visualisation in the media, to data-intensive science in various fields. The panel consisted of leading scientists, media organisations such as The Guardian and experts in infrastructure, and their take on working with data in the digital age.

You can also find links to blog posts and other related coverage in the storyboard. Do let us know if we have left anything out

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

Below is a Storify archiving the tweets from the last panel on Day 1 of Science Online London. The topic of debate was, “Incentives – What’s in it for us?” The panel aimed to pull together a diverse array of opinions from both the commercial and non-profit stakeholders, funders and researchers.

You can also find links to blog posts and other related coverage in the storyboard. Do let us know if we have left anything out

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

The format of Science Online London this year included community-sourced breakout sessions on the first day. Attendees were able to choose from four simultaneous breakout sessions, each an hour long. Delegates could select the breakout of their choice, with one in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Below is a Storify storyboard collating all of the tweets from the third set of breakouts.

Relive your experience, or check out what the other sessions were like:

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

The format of Science Online London this year included community-sourced breakout sessions on the first day. Attendees were able to choose from four simultaneous breakout sessions, each divided into hour long sessions. Delegates could select the breakout of their choice, with one in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Below is a Storify storyboard collating all of the tweets from the second set of breakout sessions. Relive your experience, or check out what the other sessions were like:

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

The format of Science Online London this year included community-sourced breakout sessions on the first day. Attendees were able to choose from four simultaneous breakout sessions, each divided into hour long sessions. Delegates could select the breakout of their choice, with one in the morning and two in the afternoon.

Below is a Storify storyboard collating all of the tweets from the first set of breakout sessions. Relive your experience, or check out what the other sessions were like:

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

Below is a Storify archiving the tweets from the first panel at Science Online London on Linking with the Literature – the #arseniclife Story. The panel’s aim was to discuss how to engage with peer-reviewed literature, exploring strategies for fellow researchers, science journalists and bloggers.

You can also find links to blog posts and other related coverage in the storyboard. Do let us know if we have left anything out

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

The first day of Science Online London got off to a flying start with a keynote from physicist, author and Open Science advocate, Michael Nielsen.

Below is a Storify archiving the tweets from his talk, you can also find links to blog posts and other related coverage in the storyboard. Do let us know if we have left anything out.

Don’t forget to check out the Science Online Wiki that links out to all related Science Online blogging coverage.

This year’s Science Online London conference begins tomorrow, Friday 2nd September. Co-organised by nature.com and Digital Science and taking place at the British Library, this year’s two day event will present a range of stimulating lectures and engaging debates, as well as talks with internationally acclaimed scientists and journalists. There are also fringe events today, tomorrow and Sunday, which are open to all.

If you are not attending Science Online London, you can follow the #solo11 hashtag on Twitter as well as watch live-streams of the sessions from the main auditorium, as well as many of Friday’s breakout sessions. Keep an eye here for blog posts and links to other content too.

To add to the jam-packed programme, for the very first time Science Online London is hosting a selection of lively workshops that will form the schedule for the Saturday.

There will be four simultaneous workshops, each divided into 90 minute sessions. Attendees are able to select two of these workshops, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, the afternoon workshops will be more advanced and attendees may continue with the same workshop to dive deeper into the content. Each workshop will use information relevant to SMA research and at the end of the day each workshop will present the output from their sessions.

At this year’s Science Online London Lou Woodley and Laura Wheeler will be running one of Saturday’s workshops on Online Communication tools. With help from Alan Cann, Daniel Mietchen and Mike Peel, the workshop will start with how to get the most out of online communication tools such as Google+, Twitter, and 3rd party twitter tools such as Storify and Dipity. We’ll also mention account management tools including CoTweet and Tweetdeck. We’re able to cover all angles from how to practically use the tools most beneficially in an institutional or academic environment, to how to measure their impact via statistics and online “kudos” tools. If you still need a G+ invite, do send Alan an email.

You can find out more about the sessions below:

Data visualisation – tutorial material by Jer Thorp, data artist in residence, New York Times A tutorial in Processing.js, showing how even non-programmers can visualise information (in this case, relevant to rare and neglected disease) in new and novel ways using Processing – an open source visual programming language. NOTE: Due to unforseen circumstances, Jer will be unable to join us in person. He’s providing us with a step-by-step tutorial with examples to work through, and we’ll have Processing users on hand to help troubleshoot.

Beyond scholarly publication – led by Martin Fenner, (PLoS blogger, Hannover Medical School) with Eva Amsen (The Node); Brian Mossop (PLoS); Mike Peel; Bora Zivkovic; and Scott Edmunds This workshop will tie together a number of concepts raised at last January’s “Beyond the PDF” conference, looking at how we can move beyond a static PDF journal article and can redefine both our writing tools and the format of the scholarly paper. This workshop will showcase Scholarly HTML and participants will learn to use blogging tools to write content that is interesting, enriched with multimedia, collaborative, and semantically enhanced.

Online Communication Tools – led by Lou Woodley, nature.com with contributions from AJ Cann and Mike Peel. To include social media/online tools e.g. Twitter, Google +, and 3rd party apps and how to track the impact of your online activities. Will also look at how we can add another layer of value and interest to science writing, integrating data and other tools to enhance how we look at information and how we tell stories.

Dealing with Data using Synapse – led by Adam Margolin and Nicole Deflaux (Sage Bionetworks), Benilton Carvalho (Cancer Research UK) A hands on data-wrangling session, using Synapse, a data platform crafted by the team at Sage Bionetworks. This workshop will demonstrate the use of Synapse to build predictive models of drug response, using genetic characterization of cell lines from the Broad/Novartis Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia project, and drug response characterization from the Sanger/MGH Genomics of Drug Sensitivity project. can be found at https://scienceonline.sagebase.org