Sympoze

Sympoze is a fast and easy way for academics to collectively share, promote, and find high quality online content.

How It Works
The process starts when an academic finds something online that they like (e.g, a blog post or a paper) and submits it to Sympoze.

Once a user submits a link, the rest of the Sympoze community (also academics) can promote the content by voting it up if it's in their discipline. Popular submissions will automatically be promoted to the front page so everyone (including non-users) can see what's popular in various academic fields.

Since voting accounts are limited to academics who have (or are currently pursuing) graduate degrees in the various academic disciplines, the popular stories reflect the opinions of actual academics. However, everyone will be able to view the content that academics vote up and down.

A Quick Guide To Sympoze
Sympoze is very easy to use. Here's a Quick Guide

Join the Sympoze Community!
You can create Sympoze accounts with many of the main online services out there (e.g. Facebook, Google, Twitter), so you won't have to remember yet another username and password. If you're an academic and you want to get started, go to our login page to setup an account (or simply click here). Please note that it may take a day or two to verify your account. Also note that anyone, whether they are a user or not, can view the submitted stories and rankings.

Contact
For questions, comments, or suggestions contact Andrew Cullison. The easiest way to contact me is to fill out our Contact Form.

Who Runs Sympoze
Andrew Cullison started Sympoze in 2008 as a social bookmarking site for philosophers. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at State University of New York at Fredonia. In 2010, with the help of Jon Nalewajek, Sympoze expanded to include all areas of academia.

However, no one person controls what content shows up on Sympoze. What gets promoted on the site is determined collectively by the growing body of academics who have joined the community.

About the Name
It's derived from Symposium. Since a symposium was basically a party where philosophers would get together and share their ideas, I thought that something related to that name would be good. However, symposium.com and sympose.com were both taken. That's when it occurred to me to follow suit with the quirky Web 2.0 thing and use some weird misspelling of the desired word. It worked for the folks at Digg and Reddit. That's why we have "Sympoze" as the name for this site. (So, if you think to yourself,"He's misspelled "sympose"!" - please note that this was intentional.)