WEB 2.0

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WEB 2.0

• Mark Bouchard, MD
• MMC Family Medicine

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Web 2.0

• Topics to be discussed
• Social Bookmarking
• Blogs
• RSS Feeds
• Wikis
• Podcasting

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Web 2.0 The Web as a Platform

• Described as a flattened, level forum for
• Creating new web content
• Making web content personal accessible
• Connecting w/others thru web content
• The impact leads to concepts such as
• Radical trust
• Decentralization of information
• Critical interactions
• Perpetual Beta open-source, end of software
  adoption cycle
• Wikipedia, eBay, Craigslist, del.icio.us, Skype,
  dodgeball

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Web 2.0 The Web as a Platform
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Web 2.0 The Web as a Platform

• Ability to optimize collective knowledge
• Decentralize and democratize content
• Optimize personal information gathering
• Tools for finding and organizing information
• Optimize communication
• Web as a social medium

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Social Bookmarking

• Similar to your Browsers Favorites but
• Available from any computer
• Can be shared or kept private
• Can add notes to links
• Can be tagged and organized by topics

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Social Bookmarking

• Social Bookmarking in Plain English
• MMCs Library del.icio.us site

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Social Bookmarking

• My del.icio.us site

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Wikis

• What are Wikis are why are they useful?
• Wikis in Plain English

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Wikis

• Some wiki sites
• www.pbwiki.com
• www.wetpaint.com
• www.wikispaces.com
• Vermont Oxford Network Safety Hazards Wiki
• https//nicq-hazard-help.wikispaces.com/
• http//mmcsportsmed.pbwiki.com/

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RSS Feeds

• What are RSS Feeds?
• RSS Feeds in Plain English
• Used for tracking new sites, blogs
• Used for tracking current awareness literature
  searches, tables of contents
• Feeds may be placed on websites

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Blogs

• What are Blogs
• Websites with a host blogger
• Date-stamped diary- format entries
• Usually informal in style
• Can contain video, audio and other hyperlinks

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Blogs

• Blogs in Plain English
• Searching for Blogs
• Technorati blog search engine
• Paul Levys blog CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess
  Medical Center
• Do I get paid too much? (1/28/07) -
  http//runningahospital.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_ar
  chive.html
• Organizational wiki (1/31/08) -
  http//runningahospital.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_ar
  chive.html
• http//www.medlogs.com a medical news and
  health care blog aggregator

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Blogs

• Future thoughts
• Group visits posting lifestyle modifications
  with dialog back from patients in group.
  Physicians can respond and introduce new
  subjects, etc.

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Podcasting

• An audio (or video) file is posted as a feed
• Can be downloaded and played back on a PC or
  portable media player (iPod)
• Useful for current awareness audio
• MMCs Library podcasts collection

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Summary

• Many ways that we as a medical and learning
  commmunity can utilize aspects of Web 2.0
• Wikis
• Social bookmarking
• RSS feeds
• Blogs