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Sources and Resources: How to Make Your Life Easier by Utilizing the Technology that You (or your teenager) Already Own!
  • Judy Burnham
  • University of South Alabama
  • Biomedical Library
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Wikis, Podcasts and Blogs –
OH MY!
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Web 2.0 Tools
in Clinical Practice
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What is Web 1.0
  • Began in 1993
  • Small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers
  • Static HTML web pages
  • Web 1.0 users follow links to content
  • Web 1.0 is “Read Only Web”
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What is Web 2.0
  • Phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004
  • Second-generation of Web-based services
  • Content created by the user for the user
  • Interactive - users comment, edit and create content
  • Web 2.0 is “Read/Write Web”


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Web 2.0 Tools
  • RSS
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
  • Wikis
  • Photosharing
  • Social Bookmarking
  • Google Tools
  • Instant Messaging / Chat
  • Mash-ups


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What is RSS?
  • Collects information you need at a single point




  • RSS = Really Simple Syndication


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RSS to Master the Information Overflow
  • "It's like having a personal assistant who goes through every publication and blog that could possibly interest you and picks out stories to bring to your attention"
          • -- PC Magazine


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RSS
  • Get the news you want
  • Get medical journal table of contents from the journals’ websites
  • Subscribe to specific searches on PubMed (e.g. lupus therapy or journal title) or any search engine and collect them in one place
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Aggregator /Feed Reader
  • Software program that manages your RSS feeds
  • Automatically checks for new content and displays to the user
  • Web based – Google Reader, Bloglines, Yahoo
  • Desktop based – NewsGator
  • Plug-ins – Firefox Live Bookmarks
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Blog
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Blog
  • Web Log
  • Blogs first emerged in 1997
  • A blog created every two seconds
  • Comment modes enable interaction
  • RSS feeds for automatic retrieval
  • Blog readers for organization
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Top Health Blogs (Forbes)
  • Family Medicine Notes
  • Corante In The Pipeline
  • Medicine and Man
  • Medpundit
  • A Chance to Cut Is A Chance To Cure
  • Code Blog: Tales of a Nurse
  • Straight From the Doc
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Other Top Healthcare Blogs
  • WebMD
  • The Health Care Blog
  • DB’s Medical Rants
  • The Health Business Blog
  • Pharma Marketing Blog
  • KevinMD
  • Healthcare IT Guy
  • Healthcare Law Blog
  • Blogborygmi
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How about HIPAA and blogging patient cases?

  • There are 18 identifiers that must not be present in the case description
  • Do not blog about them in any HIPAA-identifiable way



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Blog Search Engines
  • Technorati
  • Google Blog Search
  • Blog search engine
  • Blogwise
  • medlogs.org




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Photoblogs
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Podcast
  • Podcast = portable broadcast (audio file)
  • Portable so you can take it with you
  • Podcast is a downloadable audio file. You can subscribe via RSS
  • Can listen on computer, PDA, iPod
  • Most major journals feature weekly audio summary of contents
  • You can listen when you commute to work or exercise
  • Text to speech programs available - Make CME portable by using text-to-speech


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"iPods"
  • iPods
    • First iPod released Oct 23, 2001
  • iTunes (and others) aggregates the podcasts (using RSS) and auto-transfers them to iPod
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Top Podcast Sites
  • ACC Conversations with Experts


  • JAMA Audio Commentary


  • NEJM This Week


  • Lancet


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Videocasts / Vodcasts
  • Health Edge by the Cleveland Clinic
  • Medpeek



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"Pros"
  • Pros
  • Easy to use
    • Web based
    • Simple syntax
  • Anyone can make changes
  • Free and open source options
  • Flexible and extensible
  • Cons
  • Disorganized
  • Too open
  • Anyone can make changes to it -- Not enough control
  • Vandalism and spam
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Uses of Wikis
  • Conference planning
  • Collaborative editing of documents
  • Meetings (agendas, etc.)
  • Project space
  • In place of structured courseware
  • Presentation medium
  • Web-based notebook to organize your thoughts
  • Source of obtaining information
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Photo Sharing
  • Flickr


  • Google Photo


  • Sharing medical photos with colleagues
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Video Sharing
  • Google Photo


  • YouTube


  • Share medical videos with colleagues
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Social Bookmarking
  • Social bookmarking  - find ‘stuff’ again
  • Tagging - assigning keywords to blogs, wikis, sites
  • Web-based “favorites”/bookmarks that can be accessed from any computer with web access
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Web-Based Citation Management Software
  • Citeulike
  • Connotea – especially for researchers, clinicians and scientists
  • Zotero -


  • Manage your bibliography using the software provided by the library


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Online Communities
  • Healtheva: Network for Doctors and Researchers
  • Sermo: Online Community for Physicians



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Google Scholar
  • Rank by # or links, not quality or date
  • Bias toward older literature
  • Includes # of links - citation tracker
  • Only includes 6% of Medline citations
  • Supplemental, at best
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Google Tools
  • Google reader
  • Calendar
  • To do list
  • Weather
  • News



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Chat
  • Skype


  • MSN Messenger Live


  • Instant Messenger


  • Using chat to chat, talk, send files, and have audio and video conference
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Mashup
  • A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)
  • Customizing an application with other information
  • Example - Google Maps
  • Specialized maps


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The Future???
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