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Transcript of Local Public Health 2.0- Presentation to PRC State Board
Creating a Roadmap: Web 2.0 Creating a Roadmap: Web 2.0 and Local Public Health Practiceand Local Public Health Practice
Gillian Mayman, MLSHealth Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan
Alison Grodzinski, MLISPrevention Research Center of Michigan
This project is supported under a subcontract, NO1-LM-6-3503, CFDA 93.879, between the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan.
GoalGoalTo develop best practices for integrating Web 2.0 technologies into the work of local public health departments in order to improve the communication and information sharing within the department, between partner organizations, and to the populations that they serve.
PartnersPartners
UM Health Sciences Libraries
Genesee County Health Department
Monroe County Health Department
What is Web 2.0?What is Web 2.0?
Now…• User-generated• Participatory• Community Driven• Creation
“All the websites [and web technologies] out there that get their value from the actions of users”
--Information Week
Then…• Author-generated• Static• Organization Driven• Retrieval
Web 2.0 TechnologiesWeb 2.0 Technologies
Blogs
Media Sharing
Social NetworkingWikis
Social Bookmarking RSS
Virtual Worlds
CDC Health Marketing Director’s Blog
Flu Wiki
YouTube
Slideshare
Podcasts
Podcasts
Increases awareness about the health effects and consequences of eating fast food.
Increases awareness about the health effects and consequences of eating fast food.
SecondLife: Health and Nutrition Game
CDC in SecondLife
The ProjectThe Project
The ProjectThe ProjectPerform a needs assessment in order to identify the ways in which Web 2.0 technologies may increase the efficiency and effectiveness of each departments' communication and information sharing.
The ProjectThe ProjectTrain public health workers in the skills needed to strategically use and incorporate Web 2.0 technologies into the work of the department.
The ProjectThe ProjectIntegrate Web 2.0 technologies into the work of the department.
The ProjectThe ProjectCreate a web site in order to share information about emerging technologies and both possible and actual applications within local public health departments.
The IdeasThe IdeasDirector’s
blog Internal Policy Wiki
Google Docs for work with partners
MySpace page for Healthy Sexuality
program
Doodle for meeting
scheduling Social Networking
with community partnersAsk a Nurse blog
Second Life house showing asthma triggers
Staff suggestions blog
MySpace page for Tobacco Reduction
program
Sewage plans in Second Life
Conference presentations in
SlideShare
The SurveyThe Survey
Have you ever …
Blogs• 39.9% read blogs at least
once a month• 50% read blogs for
professional purposes• 5.2% comment on blogs
monthly or weekly
“Not sure what purpose it would serve.”
“Like to think I am not that egotistical”
“I consider anonymous opinions an unreliable source of information.”
“My kids haven't had time to teach me.”
“Have better ways to spend my time”
“I do not believe the County wants us to use this web site”
“I think it is somewhat for young people, with nothing better to do”
“Not good example for my children”
Media Sharing
• 47.6% use a media sharing site at least monthly
• 63.7% use one only for personal purposes
• 59.3% create and upload resources
• 12.8% create resources for professional purposes
Collaborative Writing
• 22% find information on a wiki daily or weekly
• 20.7% find information for personal purposes only
• 4 respondents have edited a wiki
• 78% never use a collaborative writing web site to work with others
“I know using it would become a habit and that I'd waste far too much time on the
thing.”
“Do people just not want to speak face to face anymore?”
“Colossal waste of time!”
“I don't play video games”
“Sounds boring”
Which of the following resources have you used during the past 12 months?