Posts Tagged ‘Web 2.0’
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.
Share this:Web 2.0, 3.0 and beyond
November 23, 2007
My Blog Cited by the National Library of Medicine
October 18, 2007
Thanks to Tech Medicine (Joshua Schwimmer) for finding health care blogs which are now examples on how to cite blogs by the NLM. eHealth is cited as an example of blog names using upper an lower case in their names (see example 11.)
Is this a sign that medical blogging has made it into the mainstream?
Web 2.0 Presentation on Slide Share
October 16, 2007
My presentation given in June on Web 2.0 in Health Care has been posted to Slide Share. Slide Share is a simple and nicely designed site to do just that.
Thanks to the Patient Advocate for posting it.
Share this:A New Spin on Social Networking for Physicians
September 17, 2007
Anyone out there using iMedExchange? It certainly has a Web 2.0 look about it. Includes not only videos, blogs and career opportunities but encourages exchanges between physicians on practice management, clinical issues and some personal issues, such as, vacations. It designed and supported by a team of Seattle-based technology, business and healthcare experts and is advertising for regional network physicians to promote online meetings.
Looks like an inviting concept. It joins a growing field of sites similar to Sermo.
Share this:Gartner Podcast – Web Innovation
August 30, 2007
A short but worthwhile podcast by Gartner on Web 2.0 in the enterprise to promote an upcoming conference. They admit that it may be difficult to find the right balance of implementing Web 2.0. Too much control can kill the initiatives. I agree. A gradual start in deploying blogs and wikis while not trying to replace enterprise applications or trying to create enterprise data stores that are more appropriately in more secure systems. Although they don’t address this, anonymous postings should not be allow within a business on blogs and wikis because it opens the door to abuse. IMHO.
Share this:The Future of Ideas
August 22, 2007
On Dr. Dobbs there is a 3 part podcast on the Future of Ideas with Lawrence Lessig with Carl Malamud, Tim O’Reilly, and David P. Reed. Interesting listening on architecture and design of the Internet, policy, devices and more. Quote: “What wins is the innovation on the edges of the network, not from the center of the network.”
Share this:Everything is Miscellaneous
August 16, 2007
Just read the review of this interesting book on Forbes. The title of the review is equally provocative: “Chaos is the new world order.” The book itself is revolutionary with a primary theme of throwing out the old Aristotilian categories which gave us the Dewey Decimal System and other categorizations of knowledge. Today is a search engine, self-tagging world where information is placed somewhere and then the knowledge seeker creates a path to it and an organization around it. Messiness is OK and organization can be on-the-fly.
I also just finished reading the book myself. Implications for health care to follow in a future post.
Check out the blog by the author of the book.
Share this:Hype Cycle of tagging
August 8, 2007
In the grand Gartner tradition, Philipp Keller has developed a lifecycle of tagging. Interesting history of this trend but I am surprised it took a dip in early 2007 considering the ongoing trend for new tagging sites and the sheer growth of Digg, Flickr and others.
Worth the read.
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