Post It Notes - New CAS April 12, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Current Awareness, Currently Watching, Staying Up-to-Date, Web 2.0.Tags: Current Awareness, Letterpop, Newsletters, Policy, Web 2.0
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We got asked to pull some current awareness together for our clinical reference group who wanted to keep up to date with policy etc. We could have pointed them here but they might have found it a bit rambling. The result was Post It Notes on Letterpop.
Podbean January 22, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Information Technology, Podcasts, RSS Feeds, Useful Weblinks, Web 2.0.Tags: Information Technology, Podcasting, Web 2.0
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Fade has recently relaunched our podcasts of ‘Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library’ using the Podbean service. The service in its free format offers 100Mb of storage for the podcasts that you wish to publish and uses WordPress as a content management system to publish them. The podcast blogs created have integrated streaming players in addition to the feeds for podcast dissemination. For cheap and chearful podcast hosting it’s a good service and the paid for options seem affordable too.
If you want to know how podcasts work, or how to make best use of electronic resources and you work for Liverpool PCT, contact us using the form below.
Diabetes and Web 2.0 January 9, 2008
Posted by western4uk in Diabetes, Information Technology, Useful Weblinks, Web 2.0.Tags: Diabetes, Information Technology, Web 2.0
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Tracking sugar site that charges users for access. Allows users to track and monitor sugar levels.
Site that allows you to monitor your sugar levels along with your foods. It provides users with graphs and trends.
Community for those affected by Diabetes. The site contains social networking features such as blogging, adding friends, and groups.
Diabetes resource that contains Q&A with experts, recipes, the “Wall”, and blood sugar management, among others.
Zoho Projects December 27, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Information Technology, Project Management, Web 2.0.Tags: Project Management, Web 2.0
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Zoho Projects provides online Project Management software that allows you to:
- Tasks & Milestones
Create tasks, assign owners, specify deadline to track. Associate tasks to milestones. - Calendar
View tasks, milestones & meetings all on a single page calender view. Track your day activity through the calendar. - Reports
Rich reports with Gantt charts for at-a-glance status of the projects. - Time tracking
Track the time taken for each work item. Much helpful while billing for client work - File sharing
Upload files & manage them centrally
Mindmeister December 26, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Information Technology, Useful Weblinks, Web 2.0.Tags: Mind Mapping, Web 2.0
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Mindmeister offers online mind mapping (and offline too if you use the Google Gears option).
The free basic account option allows you to:
- Use up to 6 mind maps
- Share mind maps with others
- Simultaneously collaborate on mind maps with others
- Import maps from Freemind and Mindjet MindManager™
- Export maps as RTF, Images or pdf’s.
- Include maps in blogs/websites
Management of your maps via thumbnails is easy and the maps are simply locatable. Use of the tool is intuitive and simple too.
Exporting your maps is a snip too requiring little effort.
Paid for options offer additional features should you need them. Definitely a service worth a look if mindmapping is your thing.
Contactify December 25, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Information Technology, Web 2.0.Tags: E-Mail, Spam Prevention, Web 2.0
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Contactify a clever little gizmo that creates an URL to a contact form so you can be contacted without revealing your e-mail address. A great tool to reduce the amount of spam you receive.
Event Wax December 24, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Information Technology, Web 2.0.Tags: Electronic Ticketing, Events Management, Information Technology, Training, Web 2.0
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A simple and free event management software that has great possibilities in terms of training bookings. You can invite people to events, ticket them and watch them fill up via RSS.
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Attendee Details
Booking Web Page
GoPubMed December 22, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Search Engines, Searching, Web 2.0.Tags: GoPubMed, Literature Searching, Medline, Pubmed, Web 2.0
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Bringing Web 2.0 to Pubmed, GoPubMed provides a new slice’em and dice’em approach to searching. Instantly showing information about:
- What - references retrieved, what terms have been used to describe them and the quantity used, incredibly simple to use to narrow a search down to relevant material
- Who - who’s writing on the subject searches and in what quantity
- Where - what’s the geography of the material retrieved like
- When - when was material published
This is all done quickly and effectively and is impressive for finding material of relevance.
The feature that’ll be a Fade favourite is the statistical data on retrieved results that can be displayed. This gives an overview of the literature located by a search by detailing information on:
- Top indexing terms
- Top authors
- Top countries of publication
- Top cities of publication
- Top journal titles material was published in
- Top years of publication
- Quantity of publications over time
- World map of the geography of citations located
There are features allowing you to assess the relevance of data mined terms if you become a curator at this service (not a painful process it just requires you to supply an email address) to help train the ontology-based search algorithms used here. Maybe for later……
Sounds Healthy December 7, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Information Technology, Podcasts, RSS Feeds, Web 2.0.Tags: Evidence Based Practice, Podcasts, Web 2.0
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Sounds Healthy - Internet Radio for the 3rd Healthcare Revolution, a podcasting service bringing evidence based health information to you in an audio format. Voiced by Sir Muir Grey and extremely well produced - it’s definitely worth a listen. With audio based e-learning and glossary it’s mightily impressive.
Mind you as the corner of the library with unimpeachably indie tastes, I could have done without the Queen on the about cast!
Social Bookmarking 101 September 2, 2007
Posted by western4uk in Access from Home, Access from Work, Current Awareness, Knowledge Management, Personal KM Tools, RSS Feeds, Staying Up-to-Date, Useful Weblinks, Utilities, Web 2.0.Tags: Bookmarking, Internet, Social Bookmarking, Utilities, Web 2.0
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It’s good to share! Social bookmarking tools allow you to share your bookmarks with the rest of the world and your thinking on how they should be categorised so that people understand what you think they are good for. So they’re a great tool for teams where sharing information is important. Even better these tools mean that your favourite bookmarks are available to you on any internet connected device wherever you happen to be.
Tagging is the Key Ingredient
The ability to assign keywords (tags) describing content is the key feature that allows for easy retrieval and dissemination of information. Unlike folders, you make up tags when you need them and you can use as many as you like. The result is a better way to organize your bookmarks and a great way to discover interesting things on the Web. Mind you we would say that as a bunch of Librarian’s wouldn’t we! If you look at the Fade RSS Feed Directory, each of the feeds there is an RSS feed generated by a tag from the social bookmarking tool we use. This provides an easy route to share any topic based links that you collect.
Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used (a really useful feature for maintaining consistency!), generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.
Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, it doesn’t though allow you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used (a really useful feature for maintaining consistency!), generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.
Doesn’t just bookmark the page you’ve bookmarked but archives it as you saw it. Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, doesn’t suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used, generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.
Has a really useful groups feature. Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, doesn’t suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used, generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.
Allows you to import bookmarks, displays popular/recent bookmarks, shows other related/directory links, allows you to rate the quality of a site bookmarked, allows you to mark things you don’t want to share as private, doesn’t suggests tags from the list of tags you’ve already used, generates RSS feeds, provides widgets for use with other sites, and provides a browser add-on.
This isn’t a comprehensive list by any means but they are all tools that we have experience of. As ever if you want to use them for yourself or your team and you’re in Liverpool PCT use the contact form below to contact us to request training.
