Story Highlights Silicon Valley professionals start Web site to connect donors with troops in need Founder models site on Craigslist and Kiva.org, so people can decide who to help Veterans and active-duty troops can list their stories, photos and specific requests "I am so grateful that there are people who were willing to help me," …
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"Fierce Biotech" reports Patient recruitment companies are reinventing the patient-to-trial matchmaking service of yesteryear with a new approach that meets prospects where they are increasingly spending their time--on social networking sites.Not only are companies creating web applications for such popular sites as Myspace and Facebook, but the companies running these sites have also begun exploring …
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This is a new website called Health 2.0 Advisors. The description on the front page of the website is as follows:Health 2.0 is a rapidly developing and powerful approach that uses the Web to collect, refine and share information. It is transforming how patients, professionals and organizations interact with each other and the larger healthcare …
Medpedia is a new health information wiki which is contributed to by medical professionals only. The supporting Universities include Harvard, Stanford, Berkley and Michigan. This will be a step up from Wikipedia for serious medical information.
For a year or so now I have been using iGoogle as my home page. It keeps me grounded... the weather for Canada and Australia, France and China (there are some real contrasts there!), the top news stories for my favourite places, my Gmail account and a Facebook app, a special tab to house all …
I use Google Calendar to sync my work and family commitments. I stumbled across this link tonight and thought it would be good to include in my blog. This entry in Google Student Blog shows quickly how you can use Google Calendar (G-Cal) with your work or student team.To see a list of Google Applications …
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For people in Hawaii, going to see the doctor just got as easy as booting up their PC. The state is the first to offer online physician visits statewide, under a program that kicks off Thursday. Residents can chat with a doctor over a standard Web browser (IE 7 or Firefox 2) or carry out …
This year I will try to be more focussed on what I do and how I do it. I have the usual teaching load and a few projects to complete but I now seriously need to focus on commencing my PhD.So, the backlog of projects that need to be completed are:Complete writing the chapter of …
Ok, another virtual timewaster, and an opportunity to express your frustrations without really being direct... Here's Graph Jam (thanks to Sue Waters for pointing this one out too).Merry Christmas!
If Sue Waters from Edublogger thinks that crappy graphs is a good tool, then I'm prepared to give it a go. Here's my creation:
Anita Hamilton ~ VirtualOT 