MyNetResearch Improves Research Efficiency!
As we continue to grow, our services are being sought after by research organizations seeking tangible ways to improve their faculty's research productivity in lean economic times. More administrators are seeing the benefits of MyNetResearch's online research management and collaboration model.

We are helping a growing number of research organizations save paper, manage research projects better, improve collaboration, and increase the quality and quantity of their researchers' output. As we continue to lead the e-research revolution, many are beginning to take note in industry and academia alike.

Planning for our first Research Collaboration Conference
We are excited to pre-announce that planning for our first e-research conference has begun in earnest. It will likely be held in the USA in September, 2009 at one of our member universities. We look forward to sharing more about our upcoming conference in upcoming newsletters. Please tell us your opinions and preferences for such a conference at our Conference Response link. It will take just a minute to answer 3 short questions. Thanks.

MyNetResearch continues to grow rapidly. As you share MNR with your friends and colleagues, you increase the usefulness of the network to yourself and to them. Let them know of the benefits they can receive from MyNetResearch!

MyNetResearch is Seeking Sales Affiliates
We continue to offer exciting new opportunities in 2009 to Sales Affiliates. These affiliates will receive a sales commission for Sales to universities or research institutes. For further details, email: admin@mynetresearch.com

MNR Usage Tips
Find Researcher Module (Horizontal Toolbar)
In the last newsletter, you saw that you can use the Find Researcher function to search the entire database for members to collaborate with in a project.

What do I do when I find a potential collaborator?      
(a) Invite researcher to a project    
- Select Project that you want to invite researcher (s) to join
- Select researcher (s) from the list of Search Results
- Click Invite to Project

(b) Add the researcher to your Address Book
- Click Add to Address Book

You can select from this list of names to invite researchers to future projects.

MNR Help is always available.  Log into your MyNetResearch account and click on “Help” at the top right of the page.

From the MNR Blog
The Inauguration and Crowdsourced Photograph
Were you in Washington D.C for the Presidential inauguration?  Did you upload your photographs to CNN.com?  If you did, you may have contributed to the breathtaking 3D photograph of President Obama taking the oath of office.  CNN created this image by using PhotoSynth to combine thousands of photographs that were uploaded by the public. Crowdsourcing is a concept of incorporating the individual work of undefined and large networks into one photographic image.

With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, the crowdsourcing is a becoming popular problem-solving model.  Individual ideas combine to achieve the best mix solution.  Web 2.0 based research portals, like MyNetResearch, with its diverse set of researchers, can help harness the collective intelligence of researchers across the world to solve problems such as the energy crisis, healthcare and poverty.  No matter the purpose — for pleasure, business, or research the use of crowdsourcing appears set to grow dramatically.

MNR Announcements
MNR University Representatives
We continue to enlist University Representatives.  As a representative, you will receive a free Premium membership during you appointment and there can be up to 2 appointees per university.  You will be the local enthusiastic face of MNR at your institution, answering questions and sharing the benefits of MNR.  You will also be able to funnel directly back feedback and suggestions to the MNR staff, thus helping to shape the future direction of the MNR community.  Email admin@mynetresearch.com to take advantage of this chance to build your CV.

Discipline Specific Grant-Writing Forums
In the forums, organized by discipline, look out for Calls for Grants identified by our Grants Editor. Each week, look in the discipline forums to find the Calls for Grants, together with ideas for possible proposals.  Interested researchers who coalesce around a grant proposal will receive the assistance of a MyNetResearch facilitator, who will advise collaborators on grant proposals, provide grant templates, and even help with an initial review.  Visit the forums often and look out for new information on grants.

Tell Your Institutions - Build our Community
Finally, remember to share the availability of MyNetResearch with your Institutions. If you have a contact Administrator who would like to chat with us about MyNetResearch and a free trial site license, pass on their information to us and we will be happy to call them. 

Best Regards from the MyNetResearch Team!!