Social Media for Scientists – Presented by scientists for scientists

The following Slideshare presentation provides an interesting perspective from a scientist’s point of view regarding what is known as Social Media. There is a lot of hype today in the press and around the office water cooler concerning “Social Media”. Don’t get snowed or overwhelmed by all this stuff. It is practical and can be useful to all scientific professionals and at a level that everyone can relate to.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 7, Issue 45

November 17, 2009      Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 7, Issue 45   In This Issue  Polls & Surveys So what keeps you from buying a LIMS for your lab? Take a look at the following survey and see if any of the questions apply to your situation.  The survey takes less than a minute to complete. Click Here to take the survey  Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities 11/16/2009 - Request for Proposal - Forensic Laboratory Inforamtion Management System City of Charleston, South Carolina Police Department 11/02/2009 - Request for Proposals- Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) City of Tacoma, Washington, Department…

LIMS Management – The Old Occupation Using New Ideas

Laboratory Information Management Systems, or LIMS, is a new idea in an old field - information management. Older Laboratory Informational Systems, or LIS, has been a part of laboratory informatics for decades, and has had its share of problems.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should

Recently I have noticed a rash of client workstation lock downs at corporate and government sites. This is where the IT department locks the computer work station down of the users and prevents them from using the PC as little more than a terminal. It prevents the users from even making changes to their web browser settings or if they do make changes to the settings, an IT controlled program periodically will go and reset everything on the client workstation making the user go through hoops to reset their browser. Aaaah, IT services, we are here to help you! You know…. sort of like the tax man.

Creative Commons / Science Commons – Key to sharing Scientific Knowledge

Have you noticed a little symbol called "Creative Commons" showing up on numerous on-line publications, including this blog? This little icon is being adopted more and more by publishers on the Internet, especially in the scientific community. Creative Commons is helping to guarantee the free and open access to vital scientific information and publications.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 7, Issue 44

November 10, 2009      Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 7, Issue 44   In This Issue  Polls & Surveys So what keeps you from buying a LIMS for your lab? Take a look at the following survey and see if any of the questions apply to your situation.  The survey takes less than a minute to complete. Click Here to take the survey  LIMS Blog Postings LabLynx provides free trial of the ELab LIMS and other Laboratory Informatics Software Get Your Free Trial of LabLynx Solutions Now! Experience for yourself how LabLynx can help you run your Laboratory better.  Just Click Here…

LabLynx provides free trial of the ELab LIMS and other Laboratory Informatics Software

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Just Click Here to request your free trial. Select an application you would like to try out, and a LabLynx representative will respond promptly to give you access to your trial.  You won’t need to install any software.  You can try all of our software on-demand and through the web. 

Would you consider a SaaS (Hosted) LIMS for your Laboratory?

With all the talk about SaaS for laboratories, it seems like a good idea to find out whether or not laboratories have any real interest in SaaS (hosted) LIMS. Take this quick 2 second poll and also see what others are saying.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 7, Issue 43

November 03, 2009      Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 7, Issue 43   In This Issue  Polls & Surveys So what keeps you from buying a LIMS for your lab? Take a look at the following survey and see if any of the questions apply to your situation.  The survey takes less than a minute to complete. Click Here to take the survey  LIMS Blog Postings LIMS are like fish Given enough time and experience in implementing LIMS you start to recognize patterns. I admit that I am a bit slow on the uptake but at least I have almost 2 decades…

So what keeps you from buying a LIMS for your lab?

Take a look at the following survey and see if any of the questions apply to your situation.  The survey takes less than a minute to complete.

Click Here to take the survey

LIMS are like fish

Given enough time and experience in implementing LIMS you start to recognize patterns. I admit that I am a bit slow on the uptake but at least I have almost 2 decades under my belt implementing a number of LIMS and have tried to learn from that experience and practice that education in the real world.

A possible answer to improving software quality

I think some of you will be able to relate to this. If you have one of these in your home you will understand how quality would improve significantly if they were in charge of software quality.