Bio-IT World gives Merck its Best Practice Award for virtual poster session held in ProtoSphere

Virtual 3-D model of Merck's Bio-IT World award

The kudos continues to roll in around Merck's use of ProtoSphere to produce a virtual poster session.

It's earned recognition from the editors of Bio-IT World, who just gave Merck its Best Practice Award in the Editors' Choice Award category. Congratulations to the Merck team!

One of our friends from Merck was in our offices yesterday and he brought the award with him. We snapped a photo, and our design team had a little fun rendering the award into a virtual 3-D model in ProtoSphere. So no, it's really not bigger than Dom ... it's just enlarged to show detail? Hey, I did say virtual reality. ;)

Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Awards recognize organizations for their outstanding innovations and excellence in the use of technologies, practices, and novel business strategies that will advance drug discovery, development, biomedical research, and clinical trials.

This year’s Bio-IT World Best Practices Awards attracted a record 74 entrants, including a range of large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, and niche service providers.

You can read more about the awards and winners by flipping over to Bio-IT World's coverage online. The project was also detailed in a recent Nature Chemistry article. And as regular readers know, we bought a small supply of them, which we're providing free of charge. However, we're just about out. There are a few left if you want one. Just hit our website to fill out the request form.

Congrats again to Merck!

Get a FREE reprint of Nature Chemistry's coverage of Merck's ProtoSphere use

A few weeks ago we told you about how Nature Chemistry covered Merck's use of ProtoSphere in its March issue. The publication is offering it for an $18 download.

If you're about to download the article, hold your horses!! We just bought a batch of reprints, and are doling them out on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you'd like one, visit our Web site and fill out the short form. We'll send one along to the e-mail address you provide.

We've already given some away, so please, act ASAP if you want one. We have a limited number of reprints available, so the sooner you request a copy, the better your chance of getting one.

If you miss out on the freebie copy, you'll still be able to get the article. But you'll have to fork over the 18 bucks. Request one today and it can be on us!

Hope everyone finds the article insightful. If you have questions about something you read, feel free to contact us. We're happy to chat.

ShareFEST update: Learn about Merck's virtual poster session held in ProtoSphere

REACH OUT AND SHARE SOMETHING: Join me at ShareFEST

If you're planning on going to the ShareFEST Conference next week, I wanted to let you all know about the presentation I'll be doing.

I'll be turning the spotlight on Merck's use of ProtoSphere to conduct the industry's first virtual poster session. I'll be walking you through the case study and success metrics as measured by Merck.

I'll also demonstrate the 3-D virtual poster symposium environment Merck created in ProtoSphere, and show how companies can use ProtoSphere to improve collaborative decision-making with SharePoint.

Merck's story was also featured in Nature Chemistry this month, and I'll be referencing some of things covered in the article. My presentation is titled "Virtual Conferences Becoming a Reality." It's slated for Thursday, April 8 from 11:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

If you haven't registered yet for ShareFEST, there's still time to secure your spot online. The show will run April 8-9 at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia.

I'll be joined by my ProtonMedia comrades at booth #2. Please feel free to stop by, say hello, demo ProtoSphere, talk shop with us, or share whatever's on your mind about enterprise collaboration.

If you can't get to ShareFEST but still want to learn more about some of our customers' stories using ProtoSphere, pull up the case studies we've featured on the blog.

Merck's use of ProtoSphere featured in Nature Chemistry

Nature Chemistry covered Merck's ProtoSphere use in its latest issue. The five-page piece details Merck's entire experience, from what their collaboration challenges were; to what they used ProtoSphere for; to the training, collaboration, and knowledge management metrics they pulled out from their deployment.

Unfortunately, due to copyright restrictions, we can't feature the article here. But if you're interested in enterprise virtual collaboration and conferencing, the article is well worth the $18 read. You'll get Merck's objective, scientific analysis of their ProtoSphere deployment, including both the positive and negative aspects.

I'd encourage you to download the article. Or, if you're in our offices, you can read the copy I bought. :-)

LEARNED SCIENCE: Merck publishes its ProtoSphere experience in Nature Chemistry