-----Original Message-----
From: James Elkins [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 05 November 2008 14:21
To: Cronin, James
Subject: Re: FW: Academia.edu: connect to academics and researchers


James,

I notice one crucial thing missing: no way to
easily extract people's emails for mass mailings! 

Jim


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----- Original message -----
From: "Cronin, James" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:27:25 -0000
Subject: FW: Academia.edu: connect to academics and researchers

Dear Jim,
I thought this site may be of interest to you.
Kind regards,
James
 
-----Original Message-----
From: VADS: the online resource for visual arts
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Richard Price
Sent: 29 October 2008 23:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Academia.edu: connect to academics and researchers


Dear all,

I'm a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where I recently finished my
Ph.D on the philosophy of perception. 

With a team of people from Stanford and Cambridge, I've just launched a
website, www.academia.edu, which does two things:

 - It shows academics around the world structured in a 'tree' format,
 displayed according to their departmental and institutional
 affiliations. 
 - It enables academics to see news on the latest research in their area
 - the latest people, papers and talks. 

We are hoping that Academia.edu will eventually list every academic in
the world -- Faculty members, Post-Docs, and Graduate Students.
Academics can add their departments, and themselves, to the tree by
clicking on the arrows. 

Academics are joining the tree rapidly. More than 9,000 academics have
added themselves in the last two months. Some professors on the site
include:

 - Richard Dawkins -  http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardDawkins
 - Stephen Hawking -  http://cambridge.academia.edu/StephenHawking
 - Paul Krugman - http://princeton.academia.edu/PaulKrugman
 - Noam Chomsky -  http://mit.academia.edu/NoamChomsky

We're trying to spread the word about Academia.edu as much as possible.
It would be terrific if you could visit the site, and add yourself to
your department on the tree. If your university is not there, you can
add it by clicking on the arrows coming out of the university boxes.

And do spread the word to your friends and colleagues if you can.

Many thanks,

Richard

Dr. Richard Price,
Prize Fellow, All Souls College

http://oxford.academia.edu/RichardPrice