Walter Jessen

It’s important to measure your efforts when using social media to develop and promote your brand.

Here’s my approach to content aggregation: organize, filter, annotate, cite and link directly to sources, create original content, add value, and make it all easy to access.

I was asked recently to help a reluctant Scout with some motivating thoughts on finishing his Eagle Scout service project (I became an Eagle Scout back in 1986). Here are my thoughts.

As a follow-up to the ScienceOnline2011 conference in January, here’s a video of the session I co-moderated, “Marketing Yourself in Science.”

What is a Computational Biologist? What is a Bioinformatician? What is the difference between bioinformatics and computational biology?

I wrote an article a few months back that focused on Medicine 2.0 and Participatory Medicine for ASN Kidney News, a newsmagazine that examines research findings and policy changes for practitioners in kidney health and disease. It just came out in this month’s edition of the magazine.

Lately, I’ve considered setting up my own lifestream website. Fueled by conversations following the announcement of the sale of FriendFeed to Facebook, I decided to move forward with the idea of aggregating and self-archiving my online presence.