(Kamel Boulos & Wheeler, 2007; Potts, 2006)

Phase FeatureWeb1.0 One‐waywebWeb2.0 InteractivewebWeb3.0 Immersiveweb

Evidence-Based Information

Communities of Practice

Client opinion & ideas

Resources and information

Knowledge retrieval, storage, generation & transfer

Getreadytoboardthetrain!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

  Canbeusedbyoneormorepeopleinrealtimeorasynchronously.

  Groupscanworkonadocument,spreadsheetorpresentation,overcomingtheneedtokeeptrackofdifferentversions.

  Appealingtohealthcareworkers,astheycanbeusedtoorganizemeetings,takenotesorcreatejointdocuments

  Eachdocumentiswebbased,andhasitsuniqueURL

  Wheretostart:   GoogleDocuments   ZohoWriter

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  Amessageboardoronlinediscussionsite,equivalenttoformer“bulletinboards”

  ReplacedList‐Serversviaemail

  Manageuser‐generateddiscussions

  Usuallymoderatedbyagroup/team

  Socialbondsandinterestgroupsforatopicmayformfromthediscussions

  Wheretostart:   phpBB(Kawaforumand“OccupationalTherapyForum”use

thisprogram)   UltraBB

  Onlinecitationmanagerscombinesocialnetworkingwithcitationmanagementandgivegreateraccesstoknowledgethroughcollectionoflikemindedfolk

  Wheretostart   CiteULike   bibsonomy   connotea   2collab,   Mendeley

  FreelyaccessibleWebsearchenginethatindexesthefulltextofscholarlyliteratureacrossanarrayofpublishingformatsanddisciplines.

  Wheretostart   Pubmed   BMJ   GoogleScholar

  Cost‐effectivewayfordeliveringsurveys,collectingresults,andthenanalyzingtheresultsallthroughonecentralsystem.

  Fantastictooltocollectopinionsandinformationtoenhancepractice

  Wheretostart   SurveyMonkey   Zoomerang

  Yourownhomepage/start‐pagethatusesRSSfeedstoobtaininformation(e.g.news,weather,stockmarketinfoetc…)usingwidgetsandgadgets   Widget:apieceofreusablecodethatyoucanpluginto

virtuallyanywebsite.   Gadget:likeawidget,butitisproprietary&onlyworks

onacertainwebsiteoraspecificsetofwebsites(About.com)

  Wheretostart   iGoogle   MyYahoo

  Aseriesofaudioorvideodigital‐mediafilesthataredistributedovertheInternetbysyndicateddownload(RSS),throughWebfeeds,toportablemediaplayersandpersonalcomputers

  Wheretostart   CNETPodcastCentral   PodcastDirectory.com   YouTube   Talkshoe

  RSSstandsforReallySimpleSyndication,RichSiteSummaryorRDFSiteSummary(McLeanetal.2007).

  YoucansubscribetoalertsfromInternetnewsservices,blogsorpodcastupdates,journaltableofcontentsorPubmedsearches

  Younolongerhavetovisityourfavouritewebsitesorblogsforupdates;ratheryouareinformedofupdates.

  ItissimpletosubscribetoanysitethathastheRSSsymbol

  TostartreceivingRSSfeeds,youwillneedtosetupareaderoranaggregatortoreceivesubscribedupdates.

  Wheretostart:   GoogleReader

  Bloglines

  Providestheabilitytosaveyourwebbrowser'sbookmarksonawebsite

  Allowsyoutotakeyourbookmarkswithyou.

  Thistypeofbookmarkingsystemisusuallypublicbutcanalsobesavedprivatelyorsharedwithspecifiedpeopleorgroups

  Wheretostart   Delicious   Diigo

  Supportmaintenanceofexistingsocialnetworks,orconnectpeoplewithsharedinterests

  Sitesvaryinthetypesofapplicationsandcommunicationtoolstheyoffer,suchasmobileconnectivity,bloggingandphoto‐orvideosharing(Kamel‐Boulosetal.2007)

  Theymakeauser’snetworkvisibletoothers,openingupthepossibilityofnewconnectionsandnewnetworks

  Thereareover40majorsocialnetworksitesontheInternettoday,withthetwomostpopularintheEnglish‐speakingworldbeingFacebookandMySpace(Junco&Cole‐Avent2008)

  AdifferenttypeofsocialnetworkingsiteisNing,whereuserssetuptheirownsocialnetworksbasedonspecialinterests

  Multiuservirtualworldsarecomputer‐based,simulatedmultimediaenvironmentsthataredesignedtoenableuserstointeractwitheachotherusingdigitalobjects.

  Eachuserhasacustomizablegraphicalself‐representationknownasanavatar,whichhasitsownnameandcanbeadaptedtohaveuniquefeatures(Kamel‐Boulosetal.2007).

  CurrentlythemostpopularvirtualworldisSecondLife,with8.9millionresidentsin2008(Seeman2008).

  Wheretostart   SecondLife

  Croquetproject

  VoIPservicesconvertvoiceintoadigitalsignalthattravelsovertheInternettoacomputeroraphoneoranothercomputer

  Someprogramscanbeaddedsothatyoucanrecordonlinecalls(e.g.EcammNetwork)   Skype   iChat   Googletalk   Wimba

(Bray & Boufford, 2006; Samarawickrema, 2007)

AOTALivingLifetoitsFullestPodcasts:http://www.aota.org/Consumers/Podcasts.aspx

Cathy’sECCafé:http://www.eccafe.org/

CiteULike:http://www.citeulike.org/

Delicious:http://delicious.com/

Diigo:http://www.diigo.com/index

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/

GoogleDocs:http://docs.google.com

GoogleReader:http://reader.google.com

HealthskillsWeblog:http://healthskills.wordpress.com/

iGoogle:http://www.google.com/ig

Linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com/

Mediawiki:http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

OccupationalTherapyForum:http://www.occupationaltherapyforum.com/

PBWorks:http://pbworks.com/

Podcastdirectory:http://www.podcastdirectory.com/

PubmedCentral:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

SecondLife:http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1

Skype:http://www.skype.com/

SurveyMonkey:http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Twitter:http://healthskills.wordpress.com/

Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org

YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/

Zoomerang:http://www.zoomerang.com/