Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’
Enterprise 2.0 – Mzinga
July 30, 2008
I was pointed to this company, Mzinga, as a company to watch in the Enterprise 2.0 space. They offer employee communities, a learning management system but also social networking for marketing purposes. Looks like a broad range of tools and an impressive list of customers. Will need to check out their webinar schedule to learn more. I like the tag line, “We are smarter than me” – the true spirit of Web 2.0. They have an impressive list of white papers and a counter on their home page for postings real time for the day, over 350,000 for today. This looks like a truely innovative approach to the enterprise use of social networking and knowledge sharing without using the traditional Web 2.0 terminology.
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Study of Medical Bloggers
July 24, 2008
A study by a fellow from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has published a study of medical bloggers. Out of 271 blogs by medical professionals, individual patients could be identified in 42% and many describe negatively. Some even showed identifiable photos of patients. The conclusions state that while blogging provides and opportunity for sharing a professional narrative, these violations of privacy need to be addressed.
One wonders if there are similar privacy and confidentiality violations within social networking sites for medical professionals. Some basic groundrules need to be established. One good model is Clinical Cases blog which takes pains to deidentify patient information including Xrays.
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Big Think
July 9, 2008
Just stumbled across this new beta site which encourages video postings of Big Ideas. For instance, a new post by Dr. Sebeti from Harvard discusses the future of Genomics. There are topics from faith to science, or Meta to Physical. There is a topic area on the Internet, of course, which includes one by Esther Dyson on “Is Investment in Web 2.0 Slowing?”
This is worth exploring and listening, seeing. A refreshing menu to actually stimulate new thinking and encourage discussion around new ideas. Think Big, Big Think.
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Presentation Tomorrow on Web 2.0 in Health Care
June 25, 2008
The Health Management Congress invited me to give this talk as a webinar tomorrow at 2pm EST. The full title is: “Emerging Trends & Opportunities for Healthcare Organizations to Leverage Web 2.0″.
Details from the website:
The social-networking revolution is coming to health care, at the same time that new Internet technologies and software programs are making it easier than ever for consumers to find timely, personalized health information online. Patients who once connected mainly through email discussion groups and chat rooms are building more sophisticated virtual communities that enable them to share information about treatment and coping and build a personal network of friends.
At the same time, traditional Web sites that once offered cumbersome pages of static data are developing blogs, podcasts, and customized search engines to deliver the most relevant and timely information on health
topics.
What you will learn by attending:
- Improve care self-management using Web 2.0 strategies & resources
- Analyze the impact of Web 2.0 on healthcare stakeholders
- Leverage Web 2.0 content to drive traffic to your site and customers to your facility
- Explore the return on investment for these technologies
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Presentation by Anthony Williams, Co-Author of Wikinomics.
May 19, 2008
At a meeting earlier this month at Case Western Reserve University, I heard Williams speak at a conferenced called, Collaboration Technology and Campus Engagement. Much of his presentation on “Wikinomics and the future of education” was similar to what was presented in the book but additionally, he presented information about other projects his company has been involved in.
Worth watching – drink the Web 2.0 kool aid.
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Web 2.0 and SOA
May 7, 2008
Is Service Oriented Architecture a subset of Web 2.0 or are they similar technologies with some overlap. According to and article in eWeek which reports on a presentation by Ben Flock, a Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences, at a recent Microsoft conference, ” Flock said Web 2.0 encompassed three basic categories: rich Internet applications developed with technologies like AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Silverlight and Flash; SOA (service-oriented architectures) such as Web services, RSS feeds and mashups; and the social Web, built of wikis, blogs, podcasts and social networking sites.”
I view Web 2.0 and SOA as overlapping technologies.
Also in reporting on the presentation, Flock said, “Web 2.0 has made it much easier for consumers to find trusted sources of information quickly and to use that information to better their health and the care they receive.” This is a basic premise of Health 2.0, particularly of vertical search engines.
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Web 2.0 Conferences
April 22, 2008
Two upcoming conferences worthy of note:
- Health 2.0 User-Generated Healthcare – October 21st – 23rd at the Marriott San Francisco. The agenda looks like a good one: Future of Health 2.0, Wellness 2.0, consumer genomics, business models, and more. Check out the full agenda. Very limited registration spots this time.
- Cleveland 2.0 – an initiative begun by Case Western Reserve University to apply Web 2.0 to all kinds of non-profit initiatives in Cleveland. In addition to the seminar including Anthony D. Williams, coauthor of Wikinomics, the conference will be simulcasted on Second Life.
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Web 2.0 – A Revolution or Not So Much?
March 26, 2008
From a Harvard Business Review blog comes a response to an earlier post by Tom Davenport on Enterprise 2.0 and Knowledge Management. How different are the two. Is Web 2.0 within the enterprise a revolution or is it overhyped as he suggests?
I am not sure that Web 2.0 has had a chance in the enterprise environment enough to see what it can do. Opportunities to use RSS for secure data feeds, open blogging and social networks are limited to some tech companies, IBM being a good example. And how about within conservative health care organizations? Have more than small initiatives take root? Is it realistic for nurses or physicians working long hours utilizing these tools to improve medical practice while they are challenged by learning EMRs and other clinical systems?
Perhaps educational environments such as medical and nursing schools should be the place to experiment so that the graduates can bring Web 2.0 to the health care enterprise in the next few years.
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Insights into working at Google
February 18, 2008
Written by a Google employee, this blog post give an unusual insight into some insights about working there. And its not just the gourmet food. It includes things like microefficiencies, the scale of your impact, brilliant coworkers, empowerment and working for a green, caring company. All this after only 11 months at the company. In many ways Google has been a model for other software development companies and departments within companies. How much of their culture can be mimicked? Not all for sure. But certainly some of these aspects can benefit any firm or development group.
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Web 2.0, 3.0 and beyond
November 23, 2007
