Aquaculture Innovation: How Do I Get Involved?

The old truism “you will get out of it what you put into it” is likely to operate with this project. Accordingly we issue an open invitation to people and organisations to get involved!

The opportunity to be involved is open to anyone, globally. The whole world owns the fish production gap and therefore the whole world must be responsible for contributing to the solution.

To get involved you can consider taking any one or all of the following steps:

• read the content on this site
• contribute your responses to specific postings
• tell us about yourself and your finfish innovation interests
• register to be advised of new content immediately it is posted
• request access to contribute content
• draw in your network of colleagues and associates to participate
• contribute your insights to the innovation roadmapping effort
• help get the word out: include a finfish button on your website

Each of these points is discussed in more detail below:

Read the content on this site

The content on this site is either on ‘pages’ or ‘posts’. You can access the pages and posts by clicking on the links in the sidebar on the right hand side under the headings ‘Pages’, ‘Recent Posts’ or ‘Categories’. Categories can be thought of as performing the same function as a Table of Contents. If you would like to understand a little more about pages and posts then please follow this link.

Contribute your comments on specific postings

At the base of each post you will note that there is an invitation to respond. Some of the postings are written to be controversial. Others are prepared and request specific input. Whatever the case we certainly want to encourage you to comment, build on what is said or to put forward a clarifying point. We be happy for you to disagree outright and to offer your own take on the issue.

To see an example of a response you can click through to this post on Innovative Aquaculture Technologies and scroll down towards the base. You will see a response to the original posting from Ian McRobert.

Ian simply typed his response into the box at the base of the post under ‘Leave a Reply’ and clicked on the button just below the box ‘Submit Comment’. You can do precisely the same thing when you visit any of the posts on this site. Just as Ian has done you can also include links in your response.

Tell us about yourself and your finfish innovation interests

If you are looking to communicate through the site without responding to a particular post - say to notify your interest in participating in the finfish project - then you can look under the Pages heading in the sidebar for the ‘Contact’ link. Simply click on this and send us your thoughts by clicking on the ‘Send Message’ button.

Register to be advised of new content immediately it is posted

There are several possible approaches that you can use to instruct the finfish.org site to send you information on each occasion that the site is updated. You can request either blog updates or newsletter updates.

When requesting blog updates, two approaches are possible. You can either arrange for emails to be sent to you, notifying you of the new content or use a news reader. News readers use RSS feeds. If this is a new concept and you would like to understand more then click here to view a very short but very effective video clip. If you are keen to enhance your productivity in using the web, then we heartily recommend that you try using news readers to manage RSS feeds from your favourite sites.

Request access to contribute

We are very happy to offer people the opportunity to use this site to communicate about finfish aquaculture innovation. For those amongst you who would like to write posts and build your own finfish aquaculture identity, this functionality is available through the finfish.org site. In fact, for this site to continue to develop and thrive as an independent community we absolutely want people to develop their own identities in finfish aquaculture innovation.

If you would like to set your own editorial directions, show innovation leadership to help build this community then please click the ‘register’ link in the sidebar or alternatively click on this link.

Draw in your network of colleagues and associates to participate

We positively, absolutely, definitely want you to encourage your friends and contacts to use and interact with this site. Please email them the address and discuss the site’s content with them.

Contribute your insights to the innovation roadmapping effort

We are also about to initiate one of the major themes of this project - the Finfish Innovation Roadmapping effort. In this part of the project we will be engaging with people and organisations around the world who are interested in advancing the practice of finfish aquaculture. We will be publishing papers and information about aquaculture and will be seeking your opinions and feedback. We intend to use something like the aquaculture value system described here (please comment on its suitability) to organise our information and to help people collaborate with others that have related interests.

Finfish Buttons

You can help us to let more people know about the finfish project by including our button and invitation on your home page. Become a finfish project supporter by accessing our suggested text and buttons here.

We welcome you to the finfish community and look forward to working with you to create significant innovation.

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