Supplemental Websites for this Chapter

Information to Supplement this Chapter from the Authors

Other Websites Pertinent to this Chapter

Websites from this Chapter in the Text

Websites Referred to in the Text of this Chapter

Chapter References for this Chapter that Are Online

Onsite Information to Supplement the Text

• Address Book
• Email Attachments, creating
• Find Date Web Page Modified
• RTF Files
• Creating a signature for email
• Spell check email message (a must!!)
• Zipping software to compress a file

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Offsite Websites That Are Pertinent to This Chapter

• Email (Chapter 5)
• Email Lists (Listservs)
• Net Etiquette
• Social Networking
  • Professional Caution
• Social Networking Viruses
• Healthcare Social Networking
• Spam
• Telephony
• Text Messaging Abbreviations
• Videoconferencing
• Web 2.0

 

Email Lists (listservs)

Finding a nursing list. At the following URL search for mailing list. This produces a list of many nursing oriented lists and provides the ability to easily subscribe.
http://nmap.ac.uk/

Nursing Discussion Forums. A list of nursing oriented mailing lists and discussion forums with contact links.http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:nXlajnpsKOAJ:www.resourcenurse.com/Referencemtls/ListservsandUsenetGroups/NursingListservsandUsenetGroups.doc+nursing+education+listserv&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
and
http://www.4nursing.com/nursing.listservs.nurse.listserv.e.mail.discussion.group.htm

Net Etiquette

The online complete book of net etiquette. You can choose which section to visit using the table of contents. Contains good advice to assist in using the Internet professionally. Some of the many topics are respecting bandwidth, anatomy of an email message, and help for using discussion groups. Provides a good reference.
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/book/index.html

Social Networking

Eysenbach,G. (2008). Medicine 2.0: Social Networking, Collaboration, Participation, Apomediation, and Openness. Journal of Internet Medical Research, 10. : “Medicine 2.0” applications, services, and tools are defined as Web-based services for health care consumers, caregivers, patients, health professionals, and biomedical researchers, that use Web 2.0 technologies and/or semantic web and virtual reality approaches to enable and facilitate specifically 1) social networking, 2) participation, 3) apomediation, 4) openness, and 5) collaboration, within and between these user groups."
http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e22

Hospitals Use of Social Networking Activities. This site has a list of the U.S. Hospitals that use Social Networking tools along with what tools they use and links to their sites.
http://ebennett.org/hsnl/

Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. An up-to-date page with information about privacy with electronic communication including the telephone.
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs7-work.htm

This site presents a great overview of social networking, what it is, how they work, and the ideas behind them.
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/social_networking_sites.asp

Our need for real time information. Alexander van Elsas' Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior. (2009,Jan 14). An interesting perspective on the ready availability of information.
http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/our-need-for-real-time-information-consumption-is-pointless/

Professional Cautions

Berkman, E. T. (2009, Oct 19). Social networking 101 for physicians. Although written for physicians, there are many things in here that are pertinent to nursing. (Added May 9, 2010)
http://mamedicallaw.com/blog/2009/10/19/social-networking-101-for-physicians/#more-382

Chretien, K. C., Greysen, S. R., Chretien, J.-P., & Kind, T. (2009). Online Posting of Unprofessional Content by Medical Students. JAMA, 302(12), 1309-1315. Report of a study to to describe reported incidents of medical students posting unprofessional content online at US medical schools, describe current policies and views of medical school leaders regarding Web 2.0 use by medical students, and assess the relationship between unprofessional incidents and presence of policies. (Added May 9, 2010)
Available from http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/302/12/1309?home

Nicholson, P. (2010, Jan 6). MySpace is your space: Internet blurs professional boundaries. Although aimed mostly at therapists, there are excellent sugestions on page 2. (Added May 9, 2010)
http://socialtechnologiesresearch.com/2010/01/06/myspace-is-your-space-internet-blurs-professional-boundaries-by-patricia-nicholson/

Social networking viruses

Facebook Virus. This blog has information about the various viruses to which members are exposed with links to other sources.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/05/facebook-virus_n_148780.html

How to Prevent MySpace Virus Attacks.
http://www.ehow.com/how_2050797_prevent-myspace-from-causing-viruses.html

Phishing Scam Plagues Twitter via E-Cards.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2345569,00.asp

Twitter riddled with worms and scams (again). Security problems plague Twitter.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/20/twitter_worm_madness/

Healthcare Facility Social Networking

Social Media Governance Empowerment with Accountability. This site has links to the policies of many different agencies, and is a good place to start if looking for these. (Added November 19, 2009)
http://socialmediagovernance.com/policies.php?f=4

"How to convince leaders that social media is good for your hospital." Arguments for a healthcare agency using some of the social networking facilities. (Added November 19, 2009)
http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/2009/11/01/convincing_administrators_that_social_me

Hospital Social Media Best Practices. More an example of how social media can be used by healthcare facilites than best practices. Is a slide presentation in a Web page. (Added November 19, 2009)
http://ebennett.org/jbpres/

SPAM

All About Spam, Spim (spam in instant messaging) and Spit (spam in voice over telephone protocol [VOIP]). Good information for getting around some problems.
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2006/spam_spit_spim.asp

Getting Rid of Spam. From Webopedia's "Did You Know?" series, this is an excellent article worth reading if you are interested in cutting down on the spam you receive.

Telephony

Webopedia's Quick Reference about telephony (2007).
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/internet_telephony.asp

Text Messaging Abbreviations

Text Messaging Abbreviations and Emoticons. From Webopedia, includes many abbreviations and a description of some common symbols used in emoticons.
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp

Videoconferencing

How to Survive a Videoconference. This site offers some good hints if you must present or participate using videoconferencing.
http://www.strategiccomm.com/videoconf.html

Good discussion of video conferencing on Wikeipedia including some problems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoconferencing

Web 2.0

What is Web 2.0. Thorough description of Web 2.0 by one of the originators.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Web 2.0 and Intellectual Property Rights. Begins with a defintion of Web 2.0 and proceeds to look at the use in Education. From the Joint Information Systems Committee.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/bpweb20iprv1.aspx

Dautlich, Marc & Eziefula, Nick (2007, October 23). Web 2.0: new internet, new etiquette . . . new law? An article from the London Times Online.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2725636.ece

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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