Ten simple rules for effective online outreach

Holly M Bik; Alistair D M Dove; Miriam C Goldstein; Rebecca R Helm; Rick MacPherson; Kim Martini; Alexandria Warneke; Craig McClain

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003906

Ten simple rules for effective online outreach

PLoS Comput Biol. 2015 Apr 16;11(4):e1003906. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003906. eCollection 2015 Apr.

Authors

Holly M Bik¹, Alistair D M Dove², Miriam C Goldstein³, Rebecca R Helm⁴, Rick MacPherson⁵, Kim Martini⁶, Alexandria Warneke⁷, Craig McClain⁸

Affiliations

¹ UC Davis Genome Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, United States of America; School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
² Georgia Aquarium Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
³ California Sea Grant, La Jolla, California, United States of America.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
⁵ Pelagia Consulting, San Francisco, California, United States of America.
⁶ Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America; NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
⁷ Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States of America.
⁸ National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

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Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Communication*
Information Dissemination / methods*
Models, Organizational
Online Systems
Publishing / organization & administration*
Research Design*
Science / organization & administration*
Social Media / organization & administration*

Grants and funding

HMB acknowledges funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the North Pacific Research Board, and the National Science Foundation (DBI-1262480). KM acknowledges Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Contribution Number 4174 and Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean Contribution Number 2295. The funders had no role in the preparation of the manuscript.