ChemNet name

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Submitted by kieran_lim on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 2:19pm

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the chemnet name is short and catchy. However I just discovered that it is copyrighted by Orica.
Chem-D-net?
Chem-A-net? (A=academic)
Kieran

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Madeleine Schultz

Thu, 03/01/2012 - 4:17pm

Hmm. Originally I didn't want to have any abbreviations (ie call it Chemistry Discipline Network) but when we couldn't get the url chemistry.edu.au (which I really really wanted!) I compromised with chemnet.edu.au  . I figured there was a chemnet out there because we couldn't get the twitter handle, it was already registered (hence we are chemnet_au).
Let's wait and see if they complain!
Ian McMahon is calling us CDN.
Madeleine

jmitchellcrow

Tue, 03/13/2012 - 12:33pm

We aren't the only ones using the name - the RSC also use it for their high school student membership category.
http://www.rsc.org/Membership/Networking/chemnet/
The "CDN" has a certain ring to it, but isn't exactly descriptive of who we are. Which brings us back to ChemNet!
James