National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media 2010

Links and References

Using Web 2.0 Social Technology to

Build a Cyber-infrastructure for an Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research

Community of Practice (CoP)

Open Atrium is anIntranet and team portal package based onDrupal. It is extensibleand customizable andcomes with a blog, a

wiki, a calendar, a to-do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboardto manage it all.

Elgg is a free, award-winning open sourcesocial networking enginethat provides a robustframework on which tobuild all kinds of social

environments. Elgg is totally configurable and customiz-able with core and 3rd-party plugins.

Google Apps is Google’sSaaS providing inde-pendently customizableversions of severalGoogle products under a custom domain name

and featuring several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites.

Microsoft SharePointis a proprietary softwareplatform developed forcollaboration and webpublishing combinedunder a single server.

Capabilities include developing portals, content manage-ment systems, search engines, wikis, and blogs.

PBworks is a paid subscription service and the world’s largestprovider of hosted collaboration solutionsfor business and

education. They host over one million team workspacesand serve millions of users per month.

Platforms Evaluated

Michelle C. Farabough, BA, MSKMFrances K. Wen, PhD

Cecelia Brown, PhD, MLISLynn Yeager, MLIS

Steven D. Shelton, MLISCDC National Conference

Health Communication, Marketing and MediaAugust 17–19, 2010 • Atlanta, Georgia

Questions? Contact Me!Michelle C. Farabough BA, MSKMSchool of Community MedicineUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Tulsa Campus

Michelle-Farabough@ouhsc.eduOU Family Medicine Clinic

1111 South Saint Louis Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74120918-619-4758

Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/MichelleFaraboughProfile: http://www.google.com/profiles/MichelleFarabough

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/MichelleFaraboughTwitter: http://twitter.com/Michelle_KMerBlog: KMisCommunication.wordpress.com

Poster pdf and additional study informationSlideshare.net/MichelleFarabough

For more author information about enterprise 2.0KMRM.com

How Companies are Benefiting from Web 2.0McKinseyQuarterly.com/Business_Technology.com

The Impact of the Internet on InstitutionsPew Research Center’s Internet & American Life ProjectPewResearch.org

Using Web 2.0 for Health Care Research and Education Eysenbach, G. Medicine 2.0: social networking, collabora-tion, participation, apomediation, and opennessJ Med Internet Res 2008; 10(3):e22http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e22/

Boulos, K. and Wheeler, S. The emerging Web 2.0 socialsoftware: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in healthand health care educationHealth Information & Libraries Journal 2007; 24(1):e23http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x