Reseachgate and its prospects

A number of points where raised today. Among the most interesting was a small remark that our website does not allow viewers to report errors. That's true and a valid point. A small link on the bottom of every page (in the footer) that invites people to share a piece of information that improves the website. How to implement it is another question. Any ideas?
Another interesting point was mentioned regarding researchgate dot net. The social network for scientists recently got funding to improve their site. Since we are considering promoting it as part of the internal branding strategy for Faculty members here are the key points what you can do with it:

• you can login with your existing facebook or linkedin account (so you dont need to remember another password)
• you have full control over your profile (that shows on the department website or wherever you want it)
• you can publish your papers there and make it accessible to over half a million researchers within the network
• you can start your own blog 
• you can create your own groups and share files with anybody who has the right permissions
• you can easily share information about events, news, seminars ect. that can be syndicated in a structured form
• ...

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