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In recent years, the UCSF community has joined the rest of the world in putting their faces forward in various types of videos on YouTube and connecting with those with similar interests on social networking sites.
A quick search of UCSF videos on YouTube finds a plethora of pages of video offerings, ranging from a film celebrating the centennial of the UCSF School of Nursing to a video of Calvin Chou, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine, who talked about the physical exam and bedside manner.
The global phenomenon of using YouTube and social networking websites has now moved into the realm of educational development.
Don't get me wrong. I think we need some way to tidy up the messy social Web. What OpenID is trying to do for log-in and password management, lifestreaming services are hoping to accomplish for the voyeuristic itch to know exactly what all our online contacts are doing. That's a good thing.
If you've ever wanted to know just exactly how much DNA you share with your ridiculously tall brother or doppelganger best friend, you'll soon be able to find out. 23andMe, a personal genomics startup in Mountain View, CA, is about to unveil a new social-networking service that allows customers to compare their DNA. The company hopes that the new offering will encourage consumers to get DNA testing, potentially creating a novel research resource in the process.
Family, friends can keep well-wishers updated on progress or setbacks when loved ones are dealing with long-term illnesses or extended hospital stays
You may think Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and the other top social networks are a waste of time or, more succinctly, that social networking is just for kids.
Think again. I'm going to tell you about one social site that is so useful, but I hope you never need to create a profile. If you do, you will be overwhelmed by good wishes.
The site is called CarePages, and the Chicago company was born in 2000, before those other social sites were even conceived. It is a very emotional place.
Mark Zuckerberg describes Facebook as a service designed to help people communicate better, primarily through the social graph, which is the network of connections and relationships between people.
Medical blogs have drawn back the curtain on the inner workings of the health care profession. Online readers can learn about the latest medical gadgets, read physicians' views on health care issues, even get a peek at the inner thoughts of surgeons. But despite their attraction, these blogs have raised concerns about privacy issues on the Web.
Since October, universities have been getting busy and setting up shop on YouTube, enough so that it seemed worth putting together a collection of what's out there. As you'll see, universities aren't always using YouTube to distribute educational content to the outer world. It's sometimes about that. But it's also often about "selling" the university -- about PR, in short. Below, we've put the more meaningful collections at the top of the list. Over time, we'll add new video collections as they come online, and we'll continue to distinguish the good from the only so-so collections.
The practice of using a social network to establish and enhance relationships based on some common ground--shared interests, related skills, or a common geographic location--is as old as human societies, but social networking has flourished due to the ease of connecting on the Web. OCLC Social Networking Report
BioMedExperts is a new online community that connects biomedical researchers to each other through the display and analysis of the networks of co-authors with whom each investigator works to publish scientific papers. The comprehensive system of pre-populated expert profiles, coupled with the ability to analyze all associated professional connections within the co-author network, allows scientists and researchers across organizations the ability to share data and collaborate in ways never before considered.
Read more at SciTechNet