Zeigeist...a good word

"the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation."
This compelling little word conveys the nuances that collectively paint a picture.

Tools to create your own private community

shoutem

Yammer

Present.ly

CoopApp

SocialCast

Twingr

Rolago

Status

Yonkly

Twitter in December

The rise and rise of Twitter. This Compete.com graph shows it all. Social capital, whuffie, trust, ambient intimacy or whatever. People want it. Notable tweeple are the British Medical Association, Trip Database for Evidence Based Medicine and the British Medical Journal.

Google Friend Connect

Comparing social bookmarking sites

December 2008 Compete.com figures comparing social bookmarking sites. There are so many sites it is confusing. Social bookmarks help you organise, store, search and share web pages that you wish to remember. All offer this service in slightly different ways. Alexa.com rankings vary slightly from the Compete.com rankings. Digg.com is the most popular to date. Del.icio.us.com is inceasing in popularity and Technorati.com is slightly less popular than in January 2008. Reddit.com is a very simple to use service with little advertising. To see even more sites click here.

Alexa ranking
Digg 294
Stumbleupon 1030
Yahoo.Buzz 1
Technorati 433
Delicious 2614

Compete.com ranking

Why would anyone want to use Twitter?

This seemingly simple tool becomes addictive with use. Twitter is a deceptively powerful tool for learning and networking. This fun portrayal gives a glimpse.

Internet Trends

InternetTrends031808

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Mednar Search Engine for Medical Searches

Mednar provides a search of pre-evaluated sites of trusted health information. Alerts can be set up, preferences set and advanced search features are available. In combination with other search engines to access information and applications it provides another useful search tool.

Following Twitter conversations

Tweet 2 Tweet, Twitter Search and Advanced Search allow conversations to be followed.
Tweet 2 Tweet

Tweet 2 Tweet
Twitter search

TwittterSearch
Twitter Advanced Search

Be prepared to make mistakes

"“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”" — Albert Einstein

Knowledge Management

Knowledge manangement skills include the use of new media and social networks.

Knowledge Management as an ecosystem

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Networked Learning

Tweetgrid

Tweetgrid searches Twitter in real time.

Diigo for social bookmarking

You can relate to this? Then we have something in common

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Max your triangle. The love v growth v cash triangle

Jack Cheng forwards the idea of balancing needs. He sees the tension of balancing financial needs v doing something for the love of it v simply learning something new.

His advice is to evaluate what you do and get a balance in each area in order to "max the triangle".

Kicking the procrastination habit

Trisha Gura, in her Scientific American article discusses the ins and outs of this topic we are all interested in.
Not suprisingly the simple advice is "just get started".

Procrastination is worth avoiding,as it can cause financial penalty, relationship stress,health problems....and more!

It is "A dance between the brain and the situation". Nicely put.

Web 2.0 and the Health Sector

"Those who choose to ignore the deep trends of ehealth
2.0 risk missing the early stages of a social,
economic and technological tectonic shift."E-Health Insider

The application of Web 2.0 technologies in the health sector is starting to have an impact on health services and patient empowerment. Sharing information and experiences through social networking and chat sites such as Twitter have enormous potential for feedback of experiences and learning from others.

Google for Research

From: umhealthscienceslibraries,

Google for Life Science Researchers

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A presentation to the Taubman Medical Research Institute.

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US adults are also "at it" !!!!!!

Yes............they're ONLINE!!

thanks HarrisInteractive

New Zealanders are madly "at it" !!!

24% of 25-64 year olds in New Zealand are into social networking on their mobiles. One out of every six minutes spent on the mobile internet is in a social networking community.
thanks Simon Young

Still going up

Trust nothing

“Trust nothing! Analyze, process, synthesize, doubt, come to own conclusions. Only a data point!”

thanks to @ciscoiii and @markhawker

iMedix at Health 2.0

Deloitte's Health Consumer Survey (United States 2008)

From here.............

34 percent say they would use a retail clinic; 16 percent already have
60 percent want physicians to provide online access to medical records and test results, and online appointment scheduling; 1 in 4 say they would pay more for the service
1 in 3 consumers say they want more holistic/alternative therapies in their treatment program
3 in 4 consumers want expanded use of in-home monitoring devices and online tools that would reduce the need for visits and allow individuals to be more active in their care
66 percent strongly favor or lean toward state-mandated health insurance
84 percent prefer generics to name-brand drugs
1 in 4 consumers maintain a personal health record

What The F**K is Social Media?

What The F**K is Social Media?

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Health Care Consumer by Generation

Deloitte Survey

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Let's continue the ICT health journey to greater patient engagement, participation, collaboration, and empowerment

.....to here



from here............





Two great slides from Ted Eytan

Twittering for Public Health

Twitter and Microblogging for Public Health

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Linking which systems to which strategy?

Linking Systems to Strategy - Which system(s) and which strategy ?

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Electronic health record for the future

Design electronic health record to fit into health system of the future

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Does anyone doubt the direction of microblogging tools?

Microblogging: A Semantic Web and Distributed Approach

Microblogging: A Semantic Web and Distributed Approach

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Medicine2.0 is

the use of a specific set of Web tools (blogs, Podcasts, tagging, search, wikis, etc) by actors in health care including
doctors,
patients, and
scientists,
using principles of open source and generation of content by users, and
the power of networks in order to
personalize health care,
collaborate, and
promote health education.
http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e23/

Create a Pipe to control your RSS feeds

Yahoo! Pipes editor is a tool to mash, aggregate and manipulate content from the web.
Go to Yahoo Pipes
The library pane lists available modules that create specific tasks.
The canvas pane is the main work area for assembling and testing.
The debugger is the grey area at the bottom where you can see the results

Instructions
Search for news on “_____”
Grab the RSS feed (copy link)
Go to Pipes
Create a Pipe
From the library pane……
Fetch feed…drag it onto the ‘stage’
Paste in the RSS URL that you copied
Operators
Filter…drag to the stage.
Connect the pipes
Customise the filter..eg block/allow items that match all/any of the following. Then
Next field matches the RSS link so select field you wish to filter. Eg title..contains..(the word you wish to filter out)
Drag the pipe to output

Then
You could to a Technorati blog search .
Check the Authority which is the number of blogs linking to the number of blogs in your search results. Copy the RSS URL link
Fetch feed Paste in the RSS URL
Operators….filter
Eg block “inbound blogs” in the Technorati RSS URL that “is less than” 20
Union command
Plug the two feeds into the Union bar
Join to Pipe Output
Run the pipe
Have a look at the results in the grey debugger area below

Creating this pipe gives you granular spam control over blog searches
Go to the top and change the title
Save
Run pipe
You can get as a page, post onto your reader page, get results by email, create RSS of the feed.

Watch a video tutorial here………….

Social Media?

Is your SL avatar your 'friend' or your 'alter ego'?

A couple in Britain were divorced after a Second Life (SL) affair via their avatars. A couple had a steamy affair after meeting in a chat room. Their slim SL characters physically bore no resemblance to their real world appearances, but the aggrieved wife filed for divorce on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour.

The question of whether an avatar is ‘you’ or ‘a friend’ seems clear in this case, given that the emotions of love and jealousy were experienced in the real world.

Story Dominion Post (Wellington) Saturday 15 November 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick introduces Yahoo Pipes

Using Yahoo! Pipes is not too difficult. Filter your blog searches using Pipes as described in this tutorial.

You do not have to be a developer or software engineer to do this. (Thank goodness)

Give it a try. Go on.


START HERE

Find Yahoo! Pipes here

Click here for a tutorial on the basics of how to build a pipe.

Reaching people

Five Ways to Use Social Media to Reach People Who Don't Use Social Media


# Develop Relationships with People Who Bridge The Gap Inside Other Organizations
# Use Web 2.0 Tools to Learn About Real Life Public Events
# Make Your Blog an Email Newsletter and Promote it Elsewhere
# Look Harder, Your Audience Probably is Using Social Media That You Aren't Aware Of
# Use the Internet to Make Yourself Smarter In Real Life

Thanks to: Marshall Kilpatrick

Twitter now has

3,328,420 twitterers on 12th November 2008

What are your Twitter goals?

Thanks Darren Rowse and followers.

Do you want to…………
Meet other people?
Find people with similar interests?
Communicate with people who share interests?
Share resources?
Find resources?
Build a personal brand?
Be seen as an expert in the field of (-------)?
Be noticed by a particular person/s| group?
Market a business?
Market a blog?
Feel part of community?
Chat | converse?
Have fun and be a little silly or wacky?


Therefore, think about
What you tweet about
The keywords you track
Who you follow
Who you interact with
How you promote yourself | your blog | your interests
Whether you converse or broadcast yourself
How often you tweet
What tools you use
How much time you spend compared with value/satisfaction you receive

Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says

Cisco White Paper unravels the misinformation about the effectiveness of multimodal learning.
It looks at the most effective ways of teaching and learning, in a fascinating paper. This critical look at a previously published, widely stated learning myths is refreshing. Peer review is a necessary process.

Neilsen report on social networks

Nielsen Online’s September results for the top social networking sites include some familiar names - Myspace.com continues to lead the pack, followed by Facebook and Classmates.com. What is interesting is that nearly half of the biggest social networking sites are also among the fastest growing - and they are all most popular (when ranked by composition index) among age groups over 25.

Why use Twitter?

Twitter is a broadcasting tool (one to many), a conversation tool (one to one)and a discussion tool (many to many).
Twitter reminds people that there are others ‘out there’
It is a ‘water cooler’ for those unable to share the ‘passing moment’
It helps people feel ‘techno/geek’ because little skill is needed for great interaction.
It enables people to learn and connect.
It is quick way to communicate.
It enables people to connect or disconnect on their terms.
Some enjoy the large but ‘do not care’ audience.
It enables a trivial and more personal interaction compared with blogs.
The informality and briefness of each contact is appealing to some.
Quick responses are possible.
Twitter promotes teamwork and is fun.
It is possible to connect with people with like interests.
It is instant communication.
A greater level of intimacy is possible.
It enables some to feel more engaged with technical people.
Working alone is less lonely with Twitter available.
Twitter can facilitate the rapid spread of knowledge and ideas.
Twitter enables ‘connection’.
Twitter ‘unites lost souls’ and reminds us we are ‘all in it together’.
Twitter is like a ‘friendly pub’ where friends meet.
Following people on Twitter can keep people ‘up to date’ with current ideas.
Instant updates ensure ‘right now’ opinions.
Potpourris of changing topic make it interesting.
It breaks the feeling of isolation.
Other people’s links are interesting.
Useful information is easily shared.
Twitter is a mobile communication tool..the mobility is appealing.
Quirky and crazy remarks are funny.
Selfless people doing things for the community are common on twitter.
Updates without the ‘spam’ are possible.
Keeps track of others in the same field.
It is simple to use.
It taps into collective consciousness.
Wisdom of the crowds idea.
Instant responses are possible.
Networking with like-minded people is great.
It is possible to be connected but no obligated.
It is not necessary to be continuously updating, breaks do not matter.
It functions as a cathartic medium and it is possible to ‘get thoughts out of the system’.
Connecting with people on an equal basis is possible on Twitter.
It enables exposure to a diverse range of ideas.
Direct replies are very good.
The speed and personal nature of Twitter are appealing.
Connectivity, communication and community = Twitter.
Instant, easy and free = Twitter.
It enables insights in other people’s lives.
Choosing which conversations to tune into without obligation is fun and informative.
It is a good learning tool.
It is a good sharing environment.
It is possible to ask many people a question….once.
It feels like face-to-face conversation.
140 characters make it concise.
It jump-starts ideas.
The sense of trust and community Twitter fosters is enjoyable.
Live coverage of events is possible (US and NZ elections)\.
The search feature is a fast way to find people with similar interests.
Appointments and announcements are quickly and easily broadcast.
Twitter can be a 'note taking' tool for recording ideas offline.
Twitter is a social marketing tool.
Learn about trends and hot topics.

RSS feeds from Pubmed

Thanks to Ulrich Schrader
1. Go to Pubmed
2. Place limits on your search eg Links to free full text.
3. Enter search terms.
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page. Choose RSS Feed in the dropdown list.
5. Create Feed (click).
6. On the confirmation page choose the XML (orange) option, to take you to the feed.
7. Copy the feed.
8. Go to your Reader (eg Google Reader)
9. Add the subscripton.
10. It is automatically updated.

voilà !

How to search for a book online

Thanks to prep4med

allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz) TheTitle

in Google Search but replace TheTitle with the book's name.

Edgar Dale on retention of learning

BUT

These figures have been challenged here:
Will at Work Learning Blog

and here:
Cisco Report: Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says

The Cisco Report debunks Dale's percentages. Of course they were too rounded and tidy anway. It bemoans the fact that they have been so widely distributed and traces the myth back to source.
The paper describes the reason why people find the myth so compelling, which is the desire for the "magic bullet" or the "easy way" to do something that is complex.

The Cisco Report is worth a read.

Tweet Scan

Tweet Scan go to..............

Kel Kelly Blog
Tim O'Reilly is in agreement with this perspective from Kel Kelly (reproduced from his blog)
Web 2.0’s Identity Crisis
October 30, 2008 11:01 AM

All of a sudden, the term Web 2.0 is getting thrown under the bus like a certain governor from Alaska who is being blamed for the entire GOP meltdown. Michael Arrington’s post, An Ignoble But Much Needed End To Web 2.0, started the pigpile a couple of weeks ago. Since then, many Web 2.0 start-ups have had layoffs and this has fueled the fury over Web 2.0’s imminent death.

Here’s the problem, Web 2.0 as defined by Tim O’Reilly, the man who coined the phrase, is not going any place and will be around for a long, long time. Let’s look at the defining attributes that O’Reilly identifies in his September 2, 2005 post, What Is Web 2.0:

* The Web as a platform
* User-generated content
* Technologies empowering users, enabling participation & aggregating wisdom
* Services, not packaged software
* Control over unique, hard-to-recreate data that gets richer the more people use it
* Trusting users as co-developers
* Harnessing collective intelligence
* Software above the level of a single device
* Lightweight user interfaces, development & business models

To say Web 2.0 is going away is to say that all the above bullets are going away. Homey don’t think so! I highly doubt we are going back to a world of installing software on a PC and having that PC be the only device where we can run anything. That would be one bad acid trip. The Web 2.0 genie as defined by O’Reilly is out of the bottle and there is no putting her back in.

The problem is Web 2.0 is suffering an identity crisis. The term Web 2.0 morphed away from O’Reilly’s original definition and is now solely and iconically defined and associated with the start-up companies that play in the Web 2.0 space. As such, people who see these companies as going away are making the incorrect assumption that “Web 2.0″ is going away. Nothing could be further from the truth. Last I checked, Facebook and its 100+ million membership isn’t going anywhere except up. And oh by the way, TechCrunch is a Web 2.0 company. I don’t think they are going away either.

So where does it go from here? I think what is going to happen is a new term will be created to better label the bullets/attributes cited above and probably include a few new attributes. This will allow for ”Today’s Web” to dissociate itself from the struggling Web 2.0 startups. It’s a classic branding problem. What will that term be? Who the eff knows. I am very interested to see if O’Reilly renames his conferences from Web 2.0 Expo and Web 2.0 Summit to something else. That will be very telling.

How do you define Web 2.0?

Halloween 2008

Brian Biggs: Ten Trick-or-Treaters (Drawn)

Twittering for Public Health

Twitter and Microblogging for Public Health

From: umhealthscienceslibraries, 6 days ago

Twitter and Microblogging for Public Health

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Twitter is a microblogging tool that is increasingly being used in area relevant to public health. Some of these include disaster management and response, health behavior change, and health information outreach. In addition, it is also being used by professionals and organizations for routine communications. This presentation will provide an overview and introduction to Twitter and its real and potential roles in public health.


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IFIPTM 2008

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Ladder of Social Participation (Forrester)

Social Networking Figures

A new report by Josh Bernoff of Forrester Research states that usage of social technologies increased markedly in 2008: three in four US online adults now use social tools to connect with each, up from 56% in 2007. According to the report, the largest growth came from ratings and reviews, "voting" on websites, and user-generated video. Blogging and tagging were also popular.

Forrester predicts that if growth of ratings and reviews continues at its current pace, then "reading peer recommendations will fast become a permanent stage in the purchase decision process."

You could argue we're already at that stage, as e-commerce sites like Amazon and Netflix rely substantially on those technologies - and there are no shortage of imitators on other retail sites, such as Barnes & Noble.

Likewise we're also seeing a lot of 'imitation is the best form of flattery' among voting and user-generated video sites, with digg and YouTube clones popping up seemingly every day, for every conceivable niche.

Forrester has come up with different categories of social media usage (see image below). It claims that Creators are still growing slowly (it's now 21%), but "Critics" have increased more (to 37%). Critics are defined as people who post online reviews and comments. Collectors are at 19%, Joiners 35% and unsurprisingly "Spectators" are the biggest group with 69% of US online adults 'consuming' social media.

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Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond, May 2008 Update

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Social Media Metrics

Social Media Measurement

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Measuring Contribution in Social Software from Chris Sparshott

Measuring Social Software

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How to make and use hashtags

Just follow these four steps to make and follow hashtags in twitter, using hashtags.org

* Get a twitter account (usename and password) at http://twitter.com
* Search for the account 'hashtags' in twitter then follow this account
* Make a hashtag by putting the hash sign (#) before the unique word you wish to create and follow.
* Follow the hashtag at http://hashtags.org/tag/put_your_hashtag_name_here

Trust Distrust

mywebcollection

my PhD - year 2

From: neal.lathia, 3 days ago

my PhD - year 2

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oct 14 2008
phd transfer VIVA exam presentation


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Web 20 Expo Community Workshop Prezo

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Web 20 Expo Community Workshop Prezo

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Internet trends from Morgan Stanley

InternetTrends031808

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Health 2.0 is participatory. Are you ready?

HealthCampDc - Scene Setting

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Microblogging and the semantic web

Microblogging: A Semantic Web and Distributed Approach

From: terraces, 3 months ago

Microblogging: A Semantic Web and Distributed Approach

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SFSW2008, 2nd June 2008, Tenerife - http://www.semanticscripting.org/SFSW2008/


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Twitter and health details

From Twitter phwiki Click to enlarge...go on, it's worth it.

Twitter

Twitter, microblogging and living in the stream

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Twitter, microblogging and living in the stream

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Looks at how twitter is used and what this means. Oh, okay, it's me raving about twitter again.


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Jeremiah Owyang on Twitter

Uses Twitter as a social computer and states that it has many benefits over technologies like Google:

"While Google is great for finding information and websites, it’s NOT great for getting opinion, hearing nuance, or telling me relational information. With Twitter, I can ask information about opinions, and receive responses from real people (many I know, most I don’t) that often have first hand experience with the question at hand."

Joshua Porter on social design (http://www.bokardo.com)

Psychology Of Social Design

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"Broadband for the Future" Larry Page

Good advice

The Prisoner's Dilemma and Trust

Two suspects are arrested by the police. The police have insufficient evidence for a conviction, and, having separated both prisoners, visit each of them to offer the same deal. If one testifies ("defects") for the prosecution against the other and the other remains silent, the betrayer goes free and the silent accomplice receives the full 10-year sentence. If both remain silent, both prisoners are sentenced to only six months in jail for a minor charge. If each betrays the other, each receives a five-year sentence. Each prisoner must choose to betray the other or to remain silent. Each one is assured that the other would not know about the betrayal before the end of the investigation. How should the prisoners act?
Ref: Wikipedia

The house that twitters

Tim O'Reilly on what is Web 2.0?

PicLens Full screen videos

Founders of Springley

Springley

Carlton A Doty on Health 2.0

What You Need To Know About Health 2.0

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Social Media by Common Craft

Medicine 2.0 with the eye of a medical student blogger Bertalan Mesko

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