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Posts Tagged ‘ collaboration ’

Patient Advocacy: re-visiting strategies from the AIDS movement

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August 1, 2010

Some things never change. The first International AIDS conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia in 1985. It was next held in the US (San Francisco) in 1990. Shortly thereafter the US closed its borders to persons with HIV. There has never been an International AIDS conference held there since. Not only did this add...
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The Munk Debate: Health Care

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July 25, 2010

If you are interested in the healthcare system, whether you from Canada or the US you should listen to this debate. Now. The Munk Debate: Health Care “Be it resolved, I would rather get sick in the U.S. than in Canada.” Arguing for the benefits of the Canadian healthcare system are former presidential candidate...
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Take 2: the iPad’s competition

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July 12, 2010
Take 2: the iPad’s competition

This post just in from Flowing Data, one of my favourite data visualization blogs. A diagram of where the iPad fits in compared to available technologies. This is an interesting analysis. I had not considered it as a gaming console. Probably because I don’t play computer games.  Not sure if any of the games...
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The iPad as the ultimate consumer: no collaboration here!

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July 9, 2010

I’ve been thinking about what the iPad is in comparison to other devices we’ve had so far, what niche it serves and how it accomplishes this. I think the main purpose of the iPad is CONSUMPTION of information, not collaboration or creation (like web 2.0). That’s why there was no built-in camera – it...
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Publications – we all need them. Where do (or should) they come from?

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May 1, 2010

One of the obligations of an academic is to produce scholarly research papers in peer reviewed publications. The process by which these articles are written is very much part of the training and apprenticeship process one engages in while attending university. There are courses on conducting research, including those that focus on qualitative, quantitative,...
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Why Web 3.0 may be a step backwards from Web 2.0

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May 1, 2010

First off, for the purposes of this post I would like to declare that in using the phrase “web 3.0″ I’m referring to the semantic (defined as “meaning”) and “web 2.0″ as collaboration. My apologies in advance to my techie friends who would argue that web 2.0 means a lot more than that (and...
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Five minutes, five dollars and one pair of shoes for a lifetime

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October 18, 2009

Say I told you that you had five minutes and five dollars to by one pair of shoes that would last you a lifetime. I’m sure a few things would cross your mind including “That’s not enough time” and “That’s not enough money”. You would probably consider other issues like what you would be...
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eHealth, H1N1 and getting it together

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September 26, 2009

H1N1 may be the best thing that ever happened to eHealth. It may be the “perfect storm”. It may provide us with motivation (based on fear of contracting the virus), a ready-built infrastructure (the Internet), primed with dozens of collaboration and social networking tools and eager participants ready to share data. Will we be...
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Wikipedia and Flickr – a semantic marriage?

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September 26, 2009

Wikipedia tends to primarily contain written content on practically every topic conceivable. Although it allows for pictures not every entry has (or needs) visual images. There are rules about what the content considered appropriate, including that it must be of merit (e.g. an article cannot be posted about a person unless they are a...
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Mixing methods to improve decision making: visualization

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September 4, 2009

It is generally accepted amongst social scientists who collect information or measure phenomena that the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods yields the richest data. The information collected on a survey, in which many of the questions are close-ended can be contextualized by the material from the qualitative part of the study. In the...
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