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Translational Research Loop
Here’s a site that allows patients to send suggestions to researchers doing work on their health problem — translational research really is a loop! http://www.patientslikeme.com/ The business model is...
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CommentPress for collaborating on documents
CommentPress is an “open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.” See it in action & read about its...
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Too much animation
A cautionary tale to keep in mind as we strive to make Virtual Home more interactive and playful: users might forget why they came to a site if there are too many bells and whistles. See for example...
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Add a Tenure-o-meter to UCSF Profiles?
An Inside Higher Ed article discusses efforts to develop metrics to assess publishing performance. We don’t have tenure at UCSF, but it’s an interesting concept (but maybe not for publicly viewed...
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TLDR for online discussions
Here’s a new acronym to clog your brain with: TLDR, which stands for “Too long, didn’t read.” It’s also the name of a web application for navigating through large-scale online discussions, a project...
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Group-building Collaboration Tool
Here’s a collaboration tool that allows a person or organization to invite others to Help Me Investigate a topic. It deals mainly with civic matters in the UK. They don’t offer collaborative document...
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Collaborative Catalogue for Online Tools
Worth exploring: ParticipateDB is a collaborative catalogue for online tools for participation (often referred to as tools for web-based engagement, online participation, e-participation,...
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Diigo – Snagit on steroids?
Diigo is an online collaboration tool that has some of the web capture & edit tools of Snagit, with groupware thrown in. It claims to provide “a ground-breaking collaborative research and learning...
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One-Pager
This site design (anti-design?) tool for libraries takes a bare-bones approach. Food for thought as our research portal struggles to present an ever-growing array of resources. What makes a website...
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UK Government – Portal Model?
Alpha.gov.uk is an experimental prototype of a single website for UK Government, designed to use “open, agile, multi-disciplinary product development techniques and technologies, shaped by an obsession...
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