Nursing Informatics Dialogue Blog

Brian Solis developed this colorful and comprehensive graphic to illustrate the power and complexity of social media.

According to Brian, "The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate.

If a conversation takes place online and you’re not there to hear or see it, did it actually happen?

Indeed. Conversations are taking place with or without you and this map will help you visualize the potential extent and pervasiveness of the online conversations that can impact and influence your business and brand.

As a communications or service professional, you’ll find yourself at the center of the prism – whether you’re observing, listening or participating. This visual map is the ideal complement to The Essential Guide to Social Media and the Social Media Manifesto, which will help you better understand how to listen and in turn, participate transparently, sincerely, and effectively."

New article in my Web 2.0 series.

There are several different ways that folksonomies can serve a website. One common way is to organize a tag cloud of all the major links to your site - similar to a sitemap. Another way is to set up the folksonomy to reflect documents and files shared by site visitors or members, linking to the particular documents indicated by the word or phrase in the emerging tag cloud. Another use that is becoming quite popular is to reflect the contents of a cluster of text, or even a set of data. This has all kinds of promise for feedback and even qualitative research analysis. Just as the uses for a folksonomy vary, so do the way they appear. Some folksonomy tag clouds are very plain - they are barely discernable to regular texts except for a variance in text size or colour. Others are quite attractive looking, especially if organized with a graphic background for aesthetics quality. The way folksonomies are processed into tag clouds also varies - web designers can use tag cloud software or online tag cloud generators. Or, they can hand code their tag cloud in php or java to create a customized folksonomy tag cloud. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE AT: http://www.nursing-informatics.com/folksonomies.pdf

100 Fabulous Social Networks and Communities for Lifelong Learners http://www.ratedcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-fabulous-social-networks-and-communities-for-lifelong-learners/

This is amazing - a complicated renal tumor operation followed in real time using Twitter as a teaching tool.