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The Social Media Conversation

November 8, 2011 By Mike Cadogan

Talk 2: The conversation discussing the RISE (Read, Interpret, Share, Explore) of social media in the context of clinical medicine

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Clinical search in social context

August 9, 2011 By Mike Cadogan 1 Comment

Blitter Feature

Blitter is a clinical search engine with content highlighted by clinicians who blog or tweet. If they think it’s important enough to comment on, we consider it great content.

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The Little Button

July 14, 2010 By Mike Cadogan 3 Comments

Bookmarking your favourite web pages and adding to the the home screen (desktop) of your iPad and iPhone just got easier, and a whole lot prettier. Having taken the time to understand the basic principles of icon creation and bookmark beautification, I thought I would share some tips to help you get started.

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Is Social Media the Rock’n'Roll of HealthCare?

November 27, 2009 By Mike Cadogan 2 Comments

Social (digital) Media is expanding at an unerring rate, penetrating each and every darkened interstice with shafts of sharing light and goodwill….At least that’s how it seems.

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Featured, Networking, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: Health, healthcare, Social Media

Australian General Practice and Social Media

November 14, 2009 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

Griffith University is undertaking a nationwide survey in an attempt to explore Australian general practitioners’ World Wide Web, Internet and Social Media / Web 2.0 usage to deliver health care in the early 21st century. This survey is the first Australia wide study into general practitioners’ usage trends and impact associated with such modern communication applications and health care delivery. The study is being organised by Dr Wayne Usher and this is the Link to the survey

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Networking, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: Australia, facebook, General Practice, GP, MedConnect, Su.Pr, Survey, Topsy, Twitter, web

Feed Me Feedly

November 4, 2009 By Mike Cadogan 4 Comments

Feedly.com is a magazine-like startpage which displays all my social media feeds and interactions in one place – my home page. Feedly provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon. Having dabbled with iGoogle, Pageflakes, AllTop and other feed aggregators I am now settled with Feedly. I find it the most useful [...]

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Networking, Reviews, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: add-on, feed, feedly, Magazine, rss

Information overload

July 8, 2009 By Chris Nickson 12 Comments

A question asked at the 2009 ACEM Winter Symposium following our presentation on ‘The Web 2.0 Rollercoaster’ was: How can emergency physicians deal with information overload?

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Web 2.0 for Emergency Physicians

July 7, 2009 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0

Many Emergency Physicians are unfamiliar with the concept of Web 2.0, the diversity of Web 2.0 resources, and how to use these resources to enhance their clinical practice and professional development.

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Bookmarking, Education, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured, Health Informatics, lecture notes, Networking, Search, Searchengine, Twitter, Web 2.0 Tagged With: blog, Emergency Medicine, knowledge needs, microblogging, podcast, roller-coaster, rollercoaster, social bookmarking, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, wiki

Social Bookmarking for Physicians

June 16, 2009 By Mike Cadogan 2 Comments

Social Networking Flower

Up till now you have been satisfied with the bookmarking feature of your browser (ctrl + d), the static nature of its confines and the unwieldy nature therein. I beg you to contemplate expanding your collating framework and endure the malleable mind of a pragmatist.

There are an exponentially increasing number of ways to follow, tag, talk, poke, nudge and communicate with a person in the virtual world. My favorite visuospatial demonstration is the Conversation Prism by Brian Solis. The expanded flickr image gives a great representation of the articulation of social media facets in 2D mapping

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