Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:17 AM PST
Video: Mayo Clinic iPhone Meditation App ($4.99), by MedCity News: Mayo Clinic has launched its own iPhone/iPod touch app: a tool to teach and perform meditation. It's among the first iPhone apps launched by a hospital system. Mayo Clinic is partnering with DoApps Inc. to form a new company that will develop and sell smart phone apps based on Mayo research. References: Mayo Clinic launches mobile app company, meditation app. MedCity News. Related: Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, or follow me on Twitter.
Posted: 20 Dec 2009 11:37 AM PST
I've been organizing scientific events and medical conferences in the virtual realm of Second Life for years. Though it has some serious limitations.
- If you don't have IT experience, it will be quite hard to download and install it.
- Costs a lot if you want to upload content.
- Creating slideshows is a complicated and long process.
- Takes about 20-30 seconds to enter: You come up with the idea to organize an event and send the specific links to the potential attendants. They click on the link and get into your conference room in 20-30 seconds.
- No need of installation and registration
- Real-time voice communication
- Real time video-streaming on virtual screens (you can stream your presentation plus your face via webcam at the same time)
- Efficient presentation tool -> conferences, workshops, meetings
- Editable posters and textures -> personalized rooms, advertisements
- Any website, blog, forum can easily create its own virtual place
- Public and private chat, transcript can be saved
- Zero cost for not commercial users
Take a look at it yourself and see how fast you can enter Visuland. It has one major limitation, it only runs on Windows but will run on Macintosh as well in a few months.
Posted: 16 Dec 2009 06:16 AM PST
The Scottish Library and Information Council along with CILIPS (the Chartered Insitute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland) have published A Guide to Using Web 2.0 in Libraries.
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"Although Web2.0 services have been integrated within our organisation, feedback from our members within the Scottish library and informationThey have also published a guide to Improving Libraries for Learners.
community indicates that considerable barriers to widespread adoption remain. The greatest challenge seems to be access, as many organisations restrict or block the use of Web2.0 or social networking sites, denying staff the opportunity to experiment with these potentially powerful tools.
In response to demand from members, and in order to address this challenge, SLIC and CILIPS have created these guidelines to highlight the potential of social media within library services and to encourage organisations to reassess restrictive practices regarding access."
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Posted: 02 Dec 2009 05:04 AM PST
Today I presented a talk on Next-Generation Libraries at the Online Information Conference in London, England. Here's a slidecast of my talk if you'd like to check it out.
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Posted: 10 Nov 2009 03:11 AM PST
BMJ video: "John Crofton pioneered the randomised controlled trial in a 1948 BMJ paper which looked at the antibiotic streptomycin to treat TB. Now in his 90s, Dr Crofton talks to Colin Blakemore about the importance of randomisation and blinding, and how it has helped to make medicine more evidence based." Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, or follow me on Twitter.
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