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EpicStar SuperPost: Attempting to outlaw Facebook, Twitter and their lesser-known cousins may cruel your pitch with Gen Y staff

Liz Azyan — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:08:12 +0000

EpicStar SuperPost is back! Now we bring another great blog post from “Bang the Table” in Australia. Although that might seem quite far, trust me, local governments in Australia face the same difficulties, challenges and barriers that we do here in the UK, Canada and the US. Here’s a piece by one of “Bang the Table‘s” top bloggers, Crispin Butteriss who is plugging a very interesting article from the “Australian Local Government Manager magazine”.

To allow or not all? That is the conundrum for many council’s when it comes to the question of staff access to social media during working hours. But think carefully before pushing through a ‘no’ vote.

Quite apart from the near impossibility of achieving an effective bar (given the advent of such potentially subversive devices as the smartphone), officially turning off access to Facebook et al may prove to be a major turn-off for those Gen Y’s so keenly sought for the local government workforce.

This article, Social Media at Work, by yours truly was published in a recent edition of the Australian Local Government Manager magazine.

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Social Media at Work

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What are widgets? How can local government use widgets?

Liz Azyan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:19:45 +0000

What are widgets?

For some of us in local government, mentioning the word widget is not alien to us and has become somewhat part of our online activities. However for those who have never come across a widget or heard of it, widget might seem like a funny word little kids might say amongst their young friends.

So to make things easy, imagine this. On a webpage, many elements may exist, just like elements or objects you might find in your local neighbourhood. A widget is a small program that sits on a webpage. That webpage can be anything from a normal council website, to a blog and to MySpace. Its what may make a website what it is in the world of web 2.0. And just like a neighbourhood, you may find cars, shops, trees, houses, schools and bus stops as elements that make that neighbourhood.

According to Tech-FAQ…

“The term “widget” can refer to any icon or graphical interface element that is manipulated by the computer or internet user to perform a desired function online or on their computer. For example, the icons located on a personal computer’s desktop are considered widgets. By clicking or manipulating the widget in some way with the mouse or keyboard, the user is able to interact with the computer or website, essentially “telling” it to perform desired functions.

User-friendly websites are increasing their use of widgets to simplify and enhance the internet user’s experience. Buttons, drop-down menus, and basically any other element located on a web page that is able to be manipulated by the user to perform a function is considered a widget. There are hundreds of thousands of people logging on to the World Wide Web for the first time each day. Almost none of them are going to be particularly “tech-savvy” on their first experience so simplifying websites’ usability is imperative. “

Some more examples of widgets:

Stock tickers
Media player buttons
Web browser controls
Email function controls
Social-networking sites that enable information sharing
RSS feed icons
Interactive graphs, charts, and other statistical media

Even Transport for London (TFL) have embraced widgets by giving this definition on their webpage… http://www.tfl.gov.uk/widgets/

A web widget is a small program that you can put on your personalised iGoogle homepage, Facebook or MySpace profile, blog or website. A desktop widget is a mini-program which you download to your computer.

Widgets grab ‘live’ content from web sites so you don’t have to visit them to stay up-to-date with the latest information.

Basic guide to how you can use widgets

Graphics – Used to create banners, unusual fonts and animated images or text
Gadgets – Such as hit counters, weather forecasts, calendars and maps.
Entertainment – You could stream TV listings, daily quotes, interesting facts or even games
Social – Add links to your social bookmarking or networking pages such as Facebook or Twitter
Audio Visual – Why not stream your YouTube videos directly to your pages or even your music playlists.

Configure, Add and Remove easy as 1,2 & 3

3 reasons that make widgets so attractive is that they are so experimental. You can configure the widget to fit your website in terms of size, colour and layout as well as content. You can easily add them within minutes and remove them just as easily. The user-friendliness and flexibility it offers makes it such an attractive opportunity for partners of government websites to display information that are shareable across departments and sector within and external to government. It seemlessly adapts to any website and helps a government agency to duplicate any service or data that are already made available by other government or third party agencies.

Local Directgov, NHS and Business Links widgets

Local Directgov, NHS and Business Links currently a variety of widgets available for local governments to embed into their websites.

Most of these widgets are available at http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/.

For the NHS: http://www.nhs.uk/tools/Pages/Toolslibrary.aspx?Tag=Downloads+and+widgets

Business Link Northwest: http://www.businesslinknw.co.uk/help/Pages/widgets.aspx

Videos and tips on how to use these widgets will be available on the Local Directgov’s CoP App Store Wiki.

We are looking forward to hear your suggestions and feedback.

Hope this was useful.

Liz Azyan

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Web 2.0, HR and localgov: The effects of unemployment & how local authorities can realize the Web 2.0 potential of sharing resources with Jobcentre Plus and other gov agencies

Liz Azyan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:32:27 +0000

People often talk about getting on the property ladder for first time buyers and this would possibly be the talking point for many graduates who have manage to secure their first job and now considering their first real estate purchase. But nowadays, graduates are faced with a different conundrum. They are faced with the challenge of getting ON the job ladder.

The job ladder

Now you might be wondering, why do I say job ladder and not a career ladder? Well take this snipet I found on Yahoo! Answers

This basically draws a picture how frustrating the job market can be in the UK and graduates are lucky to even get a job than have a job that matches their degree. So therefore, what we are talking about here is the job ladder and not a career ladder.

To highlight this matter even further, last year the government had to deliver a crash course for unemployed graduates on how to get a job as the situation worsens. This story was covered by the BBC on their website.

Crash course on how to get a job

Unemployed Britons

It’s a known fact nowadays that its getting more an more difficult to secure a job and there are rare to come by and with the government cuts, it will make matters even worst for local governments as this might lead to more people in unemployment, on benefits and create less economic prosperity in their local area.

Its not only graduates that are not getting jobs, there are voices echoing those who are skilled but also fall into the unemployed bracket as they are being made redundant. Polls on specialised recruitment sites are also expressing some anxiety and uncertainty of the future

https://www.ex-mil.co.uk/

How does unemployment effect local governments?

There are major negative effects for local governments if unemployment rises in their area. Unemployment is a very devastating thing to go through and this may lead to the following to occur: -

Economic effects

Increased expenditure as increased rate of social welfare, because more people are unemployed.

Decreased income as less PAYE (Pay As You Earn) because less people are employed.

Decreased income as less goods and services produced because of increased unemployment and people would have less money to spend because of being unemployed so less goods and services bought so lesser demand.

If people are unemployed, production of goods and provision of services falls off, and simultaneously, the people who are unemployed lack the ability to purchase goods and services.

Investors will also be reluctant to invest any money in the production of goods or the provision of services because when production and consumption are down, there is no opportunity to get a return on the investment.

Social effects

Crime rate rise as people are unable to meet their financial needs through work.

Lead to a person to go to illegal activities such as drugs. It can have detrimental effects for not only the individual but for their local community as a whole.

An increase in the poverty population as unemployment leads to no source of income and without money for basic needs.

Divorce rates often rise because people cannot solve their financial problems.

The rate of homelessness rises, as do the rates for mental and physical illness.

Homes will be repossessed or abandoned, and neighbourhoods deteriorate as a result.

As a result, the ability of local government to provide will also be seriously compromised. When there is high unemployment, people pay less in income taxes and also pay less in sales taxes because they purchase fewer goods and services. This leads to less in the way of public services, which includes everything from police and fire protection to the staffing for local councils swimming pools and rubbish pickup.

A fast-forward scenario

John Smith loses his job, cuts back his spending in every area, including wants (eating out, movies, trips to the amusement park) and even needs (shoes for his kids, or even meat for meals at home). If John is one of several thousand who were laid off in a community, and they’re all cutting back spending in the same way he is, soon the local grocery stores, restaurants, cinemas, department stores, etc will begin to register fewer profits. A trend like that, allowed to continue, might lead to layoffs in the stores, restaurants, cinemas, etc, and the cycle will begin anew. For an economy, local or national, to thrive, people must be spending money, and for people to spend money, they need to be employed.

Effect of unemployment on the employed

Unemployment causes a greater reliance on government assistance. This increases economic stress on social programs as well as on taxpayers. Taxpayers will feel they are paying for other peoples needs instead of their own. This will lead to taxpayers feeling that their government has treated them unfairly. This may be down to the quality of quantity of services they received being below the adequate level of need.

How unemployment has turned to Web 2.0

Many recruiters nowadays have turned to web 2.0 to help them find suitable candidates for a job. Recruiters and job seekers both are setting up LinkedIn Groups, Twitter, YouTube, Podcast and Internet radio, Facebook pages, iPhone apps and blogs to either attract job seeker or even job seeking itself. Recruiters are even now developing social media strategies to build their business. This is a indicator of how times are changing and traditional methods are no longer practical or attractive to people either seeking or offering employment. You can download a copy of “Social media for Recruitment – A practical guide on using social media to build your business”. If you are interested in looking at it from a HR/employers point of view and want to be more active in social media to find suitable candidates for your company, you can view the “Web 2.0 and HR: A discussion paper” below.

Social media in recruitment

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Web 2.0 and human resources

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The Jobcentre Plus

The Jobcentre Plus website is the UK’s most visited recruitment website with over a million visitors each week. This means that Jobcentre Plus content is a valuable resource for both job seekers and employers. Local council websites are under more and more stress to cut costs where possible. Therefore a Jobcentre Plus widget for customized job search for your local area and a redundancy information widget can help local council websites with valuable content and give citizens the information that they need in this hard time. This type of partnership with councils are to be encouraged and embraced if we are to take up the Big Society challenge.

Partnerships are most basic example of the Big Society

According to 2010 Conservative’s manifesto, the Big Society is about transferring power from central to local government. Therefore in small way, by sharing information, widgets, apps and assets, we are driving Big Society in the right direction.

Local Directgov developed this widget with Innovate at http://innovate-apps.direct.gov.uk and strategy for you to use the widget effectively as well as encourage other users to embed your customized widget on their blog or website.

Local Directgov will also be sharing some usability tips for local council wiki on their CoP, so be sure to sign up as a member to gain the full benefit of how-to videos, sharing assets and knowledge.

The truth is, we should start sharing and USING what all our partners have to offer. Difficult times calls for a time of unity and doing with less. But it doesn’t mean that we are in any means short of innovation or resources. What we lack is the ability to ‘work together’, awareness and humbleness…

Hope this was useful!

Liz Azyan

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LGEO Research releases 1st White Paper tomorrow “Government-to-Citizens Communications: Utilising multiple digital channels effectively”

Liz Azyan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:11:05 +0000

So, tomorrow I’m releasing my 1st White Paper on how local government can communicate better with citizens using multiple channels on limited cost. Its been a while that I’ve been doing this research and I often get suggestions or go over ideas on how local governments can better utilise either social media channels or any of their e-services. They’re are also concerns that there are not many transactions happening on local government websites that can sufficiently cut costs and make some proper savings.

The paper was released to one lucky local council and their review was this – name of individual and local council will be released tomorrow to avoid a leak ;o) #twitterleaks

Liz effectively articulates how local government can use integrated, multi-channel communications to increase access to information and services, improve opportunities for engagement, and offer members of the community a choice in how they get their information.

The White Paper

This 8-page White Paper is the beginning of finding some practical and evidence-based solutions that might be of interest to local councils and other government bodies who want to communicate better with their citizens. Find out:-

Why local councils need to communicate better with citizens
How local councils and other government agencies are currently engaging with citizens.
What are the challenges government faces when communicating with the public.
Reasons why public communication must improve.
Benefits of good communication for governments and citizens.
Finding a low cost, simple solution.
Integrating social media and email into government web communications strategy.
Statistics and figures on success stories of using an integrated platform for public communication.
And many more!

So, if you’ve been following my research all this time and have found it useful, please remember to look out for the release tomorrow on Twitter, Facebook and Scribd. Its free for all and the hashtag for this White Paper is #getthewordout because its about governments effectively getting the word out to citizens!

So, please GET THE WORD OUT!

Hope you will find the information useful!

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Web 2.0 & social media for patients

Liz Azyan — Sat, 29 May 2010 21:06:35 +0000

This blog post is sponsored by Semantix Ltd.

Web 2.0 & social media for patients

The first on the scene was the empowered patient. Patients are participating in online communities to share and discuss daily life struggles to coping with rare diseases.

No.	E-Channel	Overview	Weblink
11.1 1.1. 1.	MyHealthInnovation.com – (like mystarbucksidea.com for health)	My Health Innovation allows people to submit ideas, other users can vote on it, and allows for ranking, eg. to create a list called “Top Ideas”. Their tag line: share, vote, and say thanks for low-cost, low-tech health ideas. One interesting aspect to the site is its acknowledgement of the power of gratitude and that in healthcare, thank you’s or gratitude can often not be public enough. For this reason, they wanted to provide a way to say thanks and added a THANKBook that collects expressions of thanks for how an idea changed your life positively, maybe forever.	Website Twitter
2.	HealthChapter.com	A place to talk about how to live well with disease, ask questions, share information about what is working for you, get sympathy, exchange ideas, request and recommend the best doctors, support and friendship from other patients suffering from the same disease. This website is an online community that has videos, podcasts, health tools, ability to leave comments, a facebook page and e-newsletter subscriptions.	Website eNewsletter subscription Facebook Page: 310 fans
3.	Diabetes Mine Blog	Here you’ll find 5 years’ worth of info on every imaginable aspect of living with diabetes — from food scales to pharma news and book reviews, to the exasperating things other people say.	Blog Twitter Facebook: 503 fans Videos
4.	Patients Like Me	PatientsLikeMe.com is a platform for collecting and sharing real world, outcome-based patient data (patientslikeme.com) and establishes data-sharing partnerships with doctors, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, research organizations, and non-profits.	Website Blog
5.	Relief Insite – Consumer Web Apps	This is a site that allows people to map, monitor and analyze their pain. ReliefInsite.com™, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking. Through the collection of structured and unstructured data and preparation of comprehensive reports, ReliefInsite provides a longitudinal perspective of a patient’s condition in real-time, enabling improved quality of care and assessment of outcomes. This site also uses video, social bookmarking such as digg, yahoo, goolge, delicious and facebook.	Website
6.	The Weight Tracker – iPhone app	The Weight Tracker iPhone application allows you to easily track your weight on a daily basis. It can also synchronize your personal weight entries withThisCityIsGoingOnADiet.com. This application was designed and written exclusively for the iPhone v2.0 Operating System using the Apple iPhone SDK.	iPhone Application
7.	Pharma Surveyor – Consumer Web App	It’s not just interactions, but toxicities involved with each drug that can affect patients. This tool reveals a much broader assessment of med risks. By integrating with partners like DestinationRx, this tool provides an additional layer of safety and vetting using powerful math and analytics. Risk is shown for each drug, plus the cumulative risk of an entire multi-drug regimen. By adding personal information about the side-effects the patient is showing, it can link side-effects to the current drugs. Then it can do a diagnosis showing where the risk is coming from, with an option to show potentially safer options that still deliver the needed therapeutic benefits.	Website
8.	ADAM – iPhone App	*The Adam Health Navigator* Puts personalized health content on iPhone–click a body part on an image of the body, or search for information. Essentially it puts commodity-level health information on the small screen. Cool features, some geomobile-related some leveraging multi-function nature of iPhone: Find nearest ER; prompt to call 911; educational videos for conditions; connect to doctors in your neighborhood.	iPhone Application
9.	MyMedLab – Consumer Web App	Web-based tool lets you choose a lab test online. A physician approves order instead of a doctor’s visit in real life. You can find a lab in your area. The tools help you choose tests based on gender, age and disease profile. Results interpreted by an MML doctor and put in your PHR.	Website
10.	Google Health – Online Medical Records for patients	Organize your health information all in one place Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies Share your information securely with a family member, doctors or caregivers	Website
11.	Microsoft’s Healthvault – Online Medical Records for patients	HealthVault is divided into two sections, one for individuals and another for healthcare professionals. It lets you … Organize your health information, with everything in one place Simplify your life: enter health info once, use it in many ways Gain insight with data that helps you make informed decisions	Website Twitter Facebook: 1,154 fans YouTube Channel: 76 subscribers
12.	Vitals – Choosing the right doctor	Vitals was created to give consumers the tools — for the first time — to make informed decisions about which doctor to choose. Our web site offers you a variety of ways to find a doctor that’s right for you. We do this through our 360 view — factual information on a doctor’s expertise and practice, consumer reviews, and recommendations from other doctors. Once you’ve decided what information you need, you can use Vitals to do a pre-visit checkup on your doctor. At no cost to you. Vitals compiles information on physicians from a wide variety of sources. The result is a free Physician Profile, which is made available to consumers, at no cost.	Website
13.	Health Grades – Rating doctors, hospitals and nursing homes	HealthGrades’ healthcare ratings, information and consumer decision-support resources serve the following groups: Consumers Visitors to HealthGrades.com find quality ratings and cost information for the nation’s 5,000 hospitals and 16,000 nursing homes as well as in-depth profiles of the nation’s 650,000 physicians. As a leader in the consumer revolution in healthcare, HealthGrades receives more than five million unique visitors to its consumer Web site each month. Hospitals HealthGrades helps hospitals understand, improve and communicate the quality of care they deliver through a suite of products and physician-led clinical-advisory services. HealthGrades currently works with more than 400 hospitals nationwide and produces well-respected public studies of hospital quality in areas that include clinical excellence, patient safety and women’s health. Employers/Health Plans Many of the nation’s largest health plans and employers offer their employees and plan members access to HealthGrades Health Management Suite, a complete set of decision-support tools that include provider ratings, health optimization modules and healthcare finance tools. Liability Insurers HealthGrades helps more than 40 liability insurance companies, including the top three nursing home and hospital insurers, assess providers’ quality and risk potential. Physicians HealthGrades allows physicians to educate patients about their specialties through HealthGrades’ consumer Web site and the HealthGrades Connecting Point™ Program.	Website
14.	Everday Health – Portal	There’s much to explore on EverydayHealth.com, including: More than 100 health centers loaded with in-depth, original information on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of diseases and conditions, as well as information on how to live a full, healthy life. Meet the Everyday Health staff, as well as the contributing writers and editors and medical reviewers. Helpful questions and answers from our board-certified experts at top-tier institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and more. Meet the Everyday Health experts. Thriving communities of individuals just like you, who are managing or caring for others with a range of conditions and health concerns. Visit our Support Groups. Interactive features including webcasts, videos, photo galleries, tools, trackers, and blogs to help you take a hands-on approach to managing your condition or improving your general health. Check out our tools page. Thousands of recipes to help you cook healthier every day.	Website Twitter Facebook Page: 253 fans
15.	Ask Manny Hernandez (the founder of Tu Diabetes) - Social media, non-profits and health 2.0 blog	About Manny Hernandaz (Diabetes patient blog) > social media expert and diabetes advocate > author of ning for dummies > twitter marketing for dummies contributor > president of the diabetes hands foundation > founder of tudiabetes + estudiabetes	Blog Twitter
16.	Six Until Me – Diabetes patient blog	A blog by Kerri Monroe who is a diabetes sufferer.	Blog Twitter Flickr Facebook dLife Kerri on Health Central
17.	Health 2.0 Blog	A community blog for and by the Health 2.0 community.	Blog
18.	Organized Wisdom Blog – wikipedia for healthcare	OrganizedWisdom Health is a human-powered, physician-guided search service for health dedicated to helping people find health information, resources and services they can trust. We publish hand-crafted, high-quality health search results called WisdomCards that provide easy-to-understand research notes, fast facts, and links to top health information, resources and services. OrganizedWisdom, named to PC Magazine’s Top 100 Undiscovered Web sites of 2008, was founded by serial entrepreneurs Steven Kreinand Unity Stoakes.	Blog

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Social networks for medical practitioners

Liz Azyan — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:51:58 +0000

This blog post is sponsored by Semantix Ltd.

This blog post features a list of social networks found online for medical practitioners.

Hope you will find this useful!

Social networks (Web 2.0) for medical practitioners

No.	Social Network	Overview	Weblink
1.	iMedExchange – a social networking site for physicians	iMedexchange is a private online community for M.D.s and D.O.s in the United States. iMedexchange provides a free venue for resources, tools and discussions to be shared between physicians.	Website YouTube Channel
2.	DoctorsHangout.com – A Personal & Professional Networking Site for Doctors& Medical Students Worldwide (Ning site)	Description: DoctorsHangout.com is an exclusive next generation social networking service for Medical Students, Residents and Doctors. DoctorsHangout social network can help you maintain existing personal and professional relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to Doctors you’ve never met before. Doctors Hangout makes it easy to find people who share your hobbies and interests, look for long lasting connections or establish new professional contacts. At DoctorsHangout.com, Doctors exchange clinical experiences, review their cases and share clinical knowledge.	Website
3.	http://doctorworld.net/	DoctorWorld.NET is a user powered medical news portal. On this social content voting site, all news is submitted by its users. Any member can submit medical related content to DoctorWorld.NET, and this will enable the content to be viewed by all. The content will be promoted or buried depending on how much it is liked by the community. The more votes the submission gets, the more popular it is. With enough votes, the piece of news will be showcased on the Front page of DoctorWorld.NET.	Website
4.	The Student Doctor Network (SDN)	The SDN is now more than 10 years old. It has a forum, blog and wiki that has a web community that includes most doctoral-level health fields. SDN is a nonprofit web site that started as a grassroots Web community at the University of Kansas in the mid-1990s. Since then, SDN has emerged as one of the most comprehensive and most useful student-driven resources on the Internet. Membership is free and run completely by volunteers.	Website
5.	Sermo – Online community for physicians to collaborate across the US	Sermo is the largest online physician community in the US. It’s where practicing US physicians—spanning 68 specialties and all 50 states—collaborate on difficult cases and exchange observations about drugs, devices and clinical issues. And find potentially life-saving insights that have yet to be announced by conventional media sources. Sermo is a real-time meeting place where physicians get help with everything from patient care to practice management. They’ve described it as “therapeutic,” a “virtual water cooler” and “vital to my everyday practice.” Physicians on Sermo rank their colleagues for the value of their postings and the quality of their answers to posted questions. Highly ranked community members are turned to for respected answers and advice. Sermo leverages aspects of social network theory, game theory, prediction markets and information arbitrage. It’s completely scalable and sustainable as a social media platform and communication tool. Peer reviews and user-reviewed rating systems ensure that medical reporting is accurate and supported by the physician community.	Website
6.	Cardiology Rounds (Ning site)	CardiologyRounds.com is an exclusive next generation social networking service for Cardiologists, Physicians, Medical Students who are interested in Cardiology and for all people who are related to the field of Cardiology. Cardiology Rounds social network can help you maintain existing personal and professional relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to Cardiologists you’ve never met before. Relationships and Connections are very important to advance your career in Cardiology. Cardiology Rounds.com helps you to create, manage and expand your social network in the field of Cardiology. At Cardiology Rounds, Cardiologists exchange clinical experiences, review their cases and share clinical knowledge, images & videos. You can immensely benefit from the collective knowledge of CardiologyRounds.com members.	Website
7.	mEducator – Enabling state of the art medical educational content using technology	Content is generated from textbooks, teaching file, algorithms, virtual patients, and more. Although there is an abundance of medical educational content available in individual EU academic institutions, this is not widely available or easy to discover and retrieve, due to lack of standardized content sharing mechanisms. The aim of mEducator BPN is to implement and critically evaluate existing standards and reference models in the field of e-learning in order to enable specialized state-of-the-art medical educational content to be discovered, retrieved, shared and re-used across European higher academic institutions. Educational content included in mEducator covers and represents the whole range of medical educational content, from traditional instructional teaching to active learning and experiential teaching/studying approaches. It spans the whole range of types, from text to exam sheets, algorithms, teaching files, computer programs (simulators or games) and interactive objects (like virtual patients and electronically traced anatomies), while it covers a variety of topics.	Website
8.	Exchange HIVE – Health IT knowledge base	In this collaborative community professionals connect across the spectrum of health and technology, nurturing developments, and enhancing creative synergies in NZ and offshore. If they want to create a private group within the hive to protect confidential discussions, the hive enables this. Feeds from other information sources are channelled into the hive, making it a one stop centre for its community. ‘The hive is where people, organisations, ideas, debate, experience, research, investors and other enablers come together to create the innovation culture, practice and the momentum that are the foundation for building a 21st century health service,’ says Malcolm Pollock. www.hive.org.nz is an initiative of the National Institute for Health Innovation and has been commissioned by the Ministry of Health.	Website Twitter RSS
9.	New Media Medicine	This website is an online community of doctors, medical students and applicants to medical school from around the world. New Media Medicine was set up in 2002 and now has over 60,000 registered members and over 700,000 messages on our discussion forum.	Website Twitter Facebook: 79 fans RSS
10.	The Health Informatics Forum – Ning site	This website is a Social Network for Health Informatics professionals, students and academics. Our members include many leading academics and researchers in the field of Health Informatics.	Website Twitter

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7 Slideshare presentation slides for social media and web 2.0 for healthcare

Liz Azyan — Sat, 29 May 2010 20:42:04 +0000

How Physicians Use Social Media In Medicine

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Social Media Health Care 2009

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Practicing Medicine in the Web 2.0 Era

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Case Study: How Social Media Can Improve Communication & Collaboration During A Public Health Crisis

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e-Health and the Social Web (“Web 2.0″)/the 3-D Web: Looking to the future with sociable technologies and social software

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New Media Medicine: A Social Network for Doctors and MEdical Students [5 Cr3 1100 Paton]

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Healthcare & Social Media: 2009 Trends & Strategy

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Cool Health Related Web 2.0 & Social Media Stuff by and for Patients

Liz Azyan — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:42:15 +0000

This blog post is sponsored by Semantix Ltd.

Web 2.0 & Social media stuff by patients

In our enthusiasm to talk about government efforts to dive into web 2.0 and social media to deliver public services, I feel we often forget where it all started. Before public service dipped their toes into the social media revolution, citizens/patients were already there. They were talking about their illnesses, creating communities of interest and interacting with each other way before e-petitions at No 10 Downing St was even launched.

The first on the scene was the empowered patient. Patients are participating in online communities to share and discuss daily life struggles to coping with rare diseases. Here I’ve compiled a list of inspirational web 2.0 and social media stuff by patients for patients (and doctors too, if they like) ;o) I hope this will inspire us to look at what is already out there to better understand patients and try to engage with them on a level or platform they are already comfortable with. This list also includes other websites that help patients and also mobile applications that can help save lives.

An additional link I received this morning by @hadleypaul was this effort by the TV Programme ‘Embarrassing Bodies’ that managed to generate more traffic and interest on NHS information and services online. According to Paul

… Embarrassing Bodies show pulls in links, photos and uses the practice of social networking, then build it into their programmes, giving big hit rates for the NHS & PCT’s, engaging with viewers, and sharing good practice.

Click here to find out more about the event that featured Embarrassing Bodies.

No.	E-Channel	Overview	Weblink
1.	MyHealthInnovation.com – (like mystarbucksidea.com for health)	My Health Innovation allows people to submit ideas, other users can vote on it, and allows for ranking, eg. to create a list called “Top Ideas”. Their tag line: share, vote, and say thanks for low-cost, low-tech health ideas. One interesting aspect to the site is its acknowledgement of the power of gratitude and that in healthcare, thank you’s or gratitude can often not be public enough. For this reason, they wanted to provide a way to say thanks and added a THANKBook that collects expressions of thanks for how an idea changed your life positively, maybe forever.	Website Twitter
2.	HealthChapter.com	A place to talk about how to live well with disease, ask questions, share information about what is working for you, get sympathy, exchange ideas, request and recommend the best doctors, support and friendship from other patients suffering from the same disease. This website is an online community that has videos, podcasts, health tools, ability to leave comments, a facebook page and e-newsletter subscriptions.	Website eNewsletter subscription Facebook Page: 310 fans
3.	Diabetes Mine Blog	Here you’ll find 5 years’ worth of info on every imaginable aspect of living with diabetes — from food scales to pharma news and book reviews, to the exasperating things other people say.	Blog Twitter Facebook: 503 fans Videos
4.	Patients Like Me	PatientsLikeMe.com is a platform for collecting and sharing real world, outcome-based patient data (patientslikeme.com) and establishes data-sharing partnerships with doctors, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, research organizations, and non-profits.	Website Blog
5.	Relief Insite – Consumer Web Apps	This is a site that allows people to map, monitor and analyze their pain. ReliefInsite.com™, is a patented, secure, HIPAA-compliant web-based platform that provides visually-oriented pain assessment and tracking. Through the collection of structured and unstructured data and preparation of comprehensive reports, ReliefInsite provides a longitudinal perspective of a patient’s condition in real-time, enabling improved quality of care and assessment of outcomes. This site also uses video, social bookmarking such as digg, yahoo, goolge, delicious and facebook.	Website
6.	The Weight Tracker – iPhone app	The Weight Tracker iPhone application allows you to easily track your weight on a daily basis. It can also synchronize your personal weight entries withThisCityIsGoingOnADiet.com. This application was designed and written exclusively for the iPhone v2.0 Operating System using the Apple iPhone SDK.	iPhone Application
7.	Pharma Surveyor – Consumer Web App	It’s not just interactions, but toxicities involved with each drug that can affect patients. This tool reveals a much broader assessment of med risks. By integrating with partners like DestinationRx, this tool provides an additional layer of safety and vetting using powerful math and analytics. Risk is shown for each drug, plus the cumulative risk of an entire multi-drug regimen. By adding personal information about the side-effects the patient is showing, it can link side-effects to the current drugs. Then it can do a diagnosis showing where the risk is coming from, with an option to show potentially safer options that still deliver the needed therapeutic benefits.	Website
8.	ADAM – iPhone App	*The Adam Health Navigator* Puts personalized health content on iPhone–click a body part on an image of the body, or search for information. Essentially it puts commodity-level health information on the small screen. Cool features, some geomobile-related some leveraging multi-function nature of iPhone: Find nearest ER; prompt to call 911; educational videos for conditions; connect to doctors in your neighborhood.	iPhone Application
9.	MyMedLab – Consumer Web App	Web-based tool lets you choose a lab test online. A physician approves order instead of a doctor’s visit in real life. You can find a lab in your area. The tools help you choose tests based on gender, age and disease profile. Results interpreted by an MML doctor and put in your PHR.	Website
10.	Google Health – Online Medical Records for patients	Organize your health information all in one place Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies Share your information securely with a family member, doctors or caregivers	Website
11.	Microsoft’s Healthvault – Online Medical Records for patients	HealthVault is divided into two sections, one for individuals and another for healthcare professionals. It lets you … Organize your health information, with everything in one place Simplify your life: enter health info once, use it in many ways Gain insight with data that helps you make informed decisions	Website Twitter Facebook: 1,154 fans YouTube Channel: 76 subscribers
12.	Vitals – Choosing the right doctor	Vitals was created to give consumers the tools — for the first time — to make informed decisions about which doctor to choose. Our web site offers you a variety of ways to find a doctor that’s right for you. We do this through our 360 view — factual information on a doctor’s expertise and practice, consumer reviews, and recommendations from other doctors. Once you’ve decided what information you need, you can use Vitals to do a pre-visit checkup on your doctor. At no cost to you. Vitals compiles information on physicians from a wide variety of sources. The result is a free Physician Profile, which is made available to consumers, at no cost.	Website
13.	Health Grades – Rating doctors, hospitals and nursing homes	HealthGrades’ healthcare ratings, information and consumer decision-support resources serve the following groups: Consumers Visitors to HealthGrades.com find quality ratings and cost information for the nation’s 5,000 hospitals and 16,000 nursing homes as well as in-depth profiles of the nation’s 650,000 physicians. As a leader in the consumer revolution in healthcare, HealthGrades receives more than five million unique visitors to its consumer Web site each month. Hospitals HealthGrades helps hospitals understand, improve and communicate the quality of care they deliver through a suite of products and physician-led clinical-advisory services. HealthGrades currently works with more than 400 hospitals nationwide and produces well-respected public studies of hospital quality in areas that include clinical excellence, patient safety and women’s health. Employers/Health Plans Many of the nation’s largest health plans and employers offer their employees and plan members access to HealthGrades Health Management Suite, a complete set of decision-support tools that include provider ratings, health optimization modules and healthcare finance tools. Liability Insurers HealthGrades helps more than 40 liability insurance companies, including the top three nursing home and hospital insurers, assess providers’ quality and risk potential. Physicians HealthGrades allows physicians to educate patients about their specialties through HealthGrades’ consumer Web site and the HealthGrades Connecting Point™ Program.	Website
14.	Everday Health – Portal	There’s much to explore on EverydayHealth.com, including: More than 100 health centers loaded with in-depth, original information on the diagnosis, management, and prevention of diseases and conditions, as well as information on how to live a full, healthy life. Meet the Everyday Health staff, as well as the contributing writers and editors and medical reviewers. Helpful questions and answers from our board-certified experts at top-tier institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and more. Meet the Everyday Health experts. Thriving communities of individuals just like you, who are managing or caring for others with a range of conditions and health concerns. Visit our Support Groups. Interactive features including webcasts, videos, photo galleries, tools, trackers, and blogs to help you take a hands-on approach to managing your condition or improving your general health. Check out our tools page. Thousands of recipes to help you cook healthier every day.	Website Twitter Facebook Page: 253 fans
15.	Ask Manny Hernandez (the founder of Tu Diabetes) - Social media, non-profits and health 2.0 blog	About Manny Hernandaz (Diabetes patient blog) > social media expert and diabetes advocate > author of ning for dummies > twitter marketing for dummies contributor > president of the diabetes hands foundation > founder of tudiabetes + estudiabetes	Blog Twitter
16.	Six Until Me – Diabetes patient blog	A blog by Kerri Monroe who is a diabetes sufferer.	Blog Twitter Flickr Facebook dLife Kerri on Health Central
17.	Health 2.0 Blog	A community blog for and by the Health 2.0 community.	Blog
18.	Organized Wisdom Blog – wikipedia for healthcare	OrganizedWisdom Health is a human-powered, physician-guided search service for health dedicated to helping people find health information, resources and services they can trust. We publish hand-crafted, high-quality health search results called WisdomCards that provide easy-to-understand research notes, fast facts, and links to top health information, resources and services. OrganizedWisdom, named to PC Magazine’s Top 100 Undiscovered Web sites of 2008, was founded by serial entrepreneurs Steven Kreinand Unity Stoakes.	Blog

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How Scottish public agencies are using social media to engage with citizens

Liz Azyan — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:07:19 +0000

Scottish social media

These slides highlights some examples of how Scottish public agencies are using social media to engage with citizens.

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Say hello to Mister Splashy Pants!: 4 Min Social Media Talk

Liz Azyan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:11:13 +0000

I love it when I can find inspiring speaker/talks and stories to inspire and encourage social media adoption in all aspects of our lives. There are just some things that money can’t buy which is unpredictable and as effective if not more than those big advertising campaigns could ever do. And the best thing is, sometimes, genuine campaigns could later on create profit for those who need it the most. And how was this all possible if not for social media? ;o) Enjoy!

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In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age. About

Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, a social-voting news website with geek allegiances, a small-town feel and a penchant for lighting up the memes your friends IM you about next week. Full bio and more links

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