Jonathan Cheung's List: Researching Credible Connections

• Antimicrobial stewardship programs aim to reduce inappropriate hospital antimicrobial use. At the Johns Hopkins Children's Medical and Surgical Center (Baltimore, MD), we implemented a World Wide Web—based antimicrobial restriction program to address problems with the existing restriction program. Methods. A user survey identified opportunities for improvement of an existing antimicrobial restriction program and resulted in subsequent design, implementation, and evaluation of a World Wide Web-based antimicrobial restriction program at a 175-bed, tertiary care pediatric teaching hospital.

• Objectives To determine whether an Internet-based course is a suitable tool in teaching dermoscopy, and to evaluate the diagnostic value of pattern analysis and diagnostic algorithms in colleagues not yet familiar with this technique.
• using different diagnostic methods (i.e. pattern analysis, ABCD rule, seven-point checklist and Menzies' method), before and after an Internet-based training course on dermoscopy.
• There was a considerable improvement in the dermoscopic melanoma diagnosis after the Web-based training vs. before.

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• Focuses on the use of Web-based technologies to connect faculty in universities and colleges. Enhancement of faculty learning communities; Provision of a collection of internal and external online resources; Improvement of teaching and learning practices.

• The Web-based tool was developed to support an inquiry-based learning approach that was characterised by strong learning scaffolds, meaningful contexts, feedback and support and administrative efficiencies.

• discusses the significance of Web sites as sources of organizational records in the U.S., and the risks associated with the improper capturing of such records in record-keeping systems. The fact is that Web sites produce official representations to the public.

• Keeping Found Things Found is a National Science Foundation project studying how people manage information in order to find it again and reuse it. Researchers identified a number of ways that people tracked information including e-mail notes to self, bookmarks, and printing. They also noted that a number of people are employing "do nothing" methods. "Do nothing" methods are based on the worker being able find the resource again by recalling the URL, using the browser auto complete function, or searching for it again(n1). Researcher William Jones noted that current tools don't mesh well with how people work with the Web(n2).

• The importance of social media as platforms of social interaction, communication and marketing is growing. Increasing numbers of businesses in various industries have already integrated or plan to integrate social media applications into their marketing programs.

• analyses how Internet-based technologies can help companies to: monitor their business environment online in search of potentially conflictive issues that need to be managed (issues management); to prepare a crisis communications plan that considers the Internet side of today's business landscape (crisis communications planning); to respond adequately to crises should they arise by using all available online tools (crisis response); and to establish appropriate Internet-based actions once the crisis dies down (post-crisis).

• financial services firms will be adopting business process management (BPM) tools and techniques at rates outpacing those of other industries this year, because the efficiencies and cost savings they can create are vital in an industry quickly losing profit margins as products become commodities.

• Previously, the bank used numerous paper forms that required multiple signatures for varying levels of authorization.
  "It saved an enormous amount of production time having that one-stop shopping versus going onto our Web sites to locate the forms for signatures and then get them signed and follow up manually," said Karen Scheer, operations and technology business liaison at First National in Phoenix. <!--beginpage2-->

• Every major writing tool now has a path to XML, which leverages small modular chunks of content for a phenomenal return on investment. It's called single-sourcing your content. First, content management systems can serve a content component through multiple publication channels--print, web, online help, mobile, etc. Second, the cleverest chunks are written in a context-independent way that makes them reusable in many different places.