back to Brainstorming Web 2.0 (3QQI)
Ideas from Brainstorming Web 2.0 @ the NIH (3QQJ)
Two sessions held Sept. 19 and Sept. 25, 2007 (3QQK)
WIKIS (3QQL)
- Create an internal wiki across NIH that allows for trans-NIH collaboration (3QQM)
- Create wikis for internal groups within the Institute or Center and one wiki for the entire Institute that will allow for a broader perspective (3QRN)
- Set up wiki for projects like Roadmap at NIH (3QRO)
- Establish a wiki for updating organizational charts; could be updated in seconds (3QRP)
- Create a wiki for scientists to add sections of a pathway they understand; could lead to breakthroughs or at the very least, incremental improvements (3QRQ)
- EPA is using wikis in three ways: (3QRR)
- For writing an online book about data architecture, modeling and networks: http://colab.cim3.net/cgibin/wiki.pl?EPADataArchitectureforDRM3Web3 (3QRS)
- Produced a DVD of how to get started with communities of practices using a wiki: http://www.himotion.us/2/2006/139.html (requires QuickTime) (3QRT)
- Share scientific info/data and best practices worldwide in a knowledge base or wiki; once approved, post on an Extranet (3QRU)
- Collaborate on prepublication data through wiki (3QRV)
- Use wikis for adhoc collaboration (3QRW)
- Create wiki about Bethesda area to help families who travel to the NIH Clinical Center for treatment (3QRX)
- Create wiki as a one-stop resource for students who intern at NIH – could include their scientific posters, ideas for future research (3QRY)
- Use wiki to develop ideas for new scientific programs across NIH Institutes and Centers (3QRZ)
- Use to wiki to create environment where grant applicants, others, could suggest scientific ideas that NIH should be pushing for funding (3QS0)
- Set up external wiki at the NIH Office of Science Education for collaborating with educators on science curriculum guides for targeted populations (3QS1)
- Explore use of wikis for collaboration on developing software at the electronic Research Administration (eRA) (3QS2)
- Create a health science wiki, with NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM) taking the lead, to which NIH Institutes and Centers could contribute (3QS3)
- Create wiki as a central information repository for rapid disaster response (good examples -- http://www.tsunamihelp.info/wiki created in the wake of the 2005 tsunami; Katrina wiki created to help victims wade through bureaucratic hurdles; www.fluwikie.com created by a ‘risk communicator’ living in Northern Virginia to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic (3QS4)
- Noted that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is putting patents out on wikis and soliciting input (see Press Release from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) (3QQH)
BLOGS (3QS5)
- Establish an internal Administrative Officer blog on the Intranet to disseminate information about, for instance, the new badge process at NIH (3QS6)
- Have IC Directors blog about ongoing activities at the Institute or Center; ensure content stays fresh; make blog available to the public (3QS7)
- Establish a presence in the blog world to dispel misinformation or augment information that other people have posted about your agency; obtain an RSS feed to key words so that you do not have to constantly monitor the Internet. (3QS8)
SOCIAL NETWORKING (3QS9)
- Create space for funded researchers to network (3QSA)
- Create a profile – a Web 2.0 persona -- of the ideal researcher NIH is looking for (3QSB)
- Create page for NIH Human Resources on MySpace for recruiting (3QSC)
- Used LinkedIn to create a network of museum educators for collaboration across the country (3QSD)
- Use LinkedIn within NIH to find experts (3QSE)
- Use LinkedIn to find peer reviewers (3QSF)
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT (3QSG)
- The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is creating a town on Second Life called Tox Town that will educate people on environmental health issues; similar to its web version at http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/ (3QSH)
- Create at NIH for modeling disease outbreaks (3QSI)
- Create for AIDS outreach at booths, etc. (3QSJ)
- NASA has a simulated science education public site (Description to NASA CoLab with link to Second Life page: http://colab.arc.nasa.gov/virtual ) (3QSK)
- All will have avatars within a few years (3QSL)
- Extend the capacity for identifying reality through training and planning for disaster preparation (3QSM)
- Concerns about authentication and privacy issues with a virtual environment; need to transcend the virtual environment system. (3QSN)
- Use as a portal to other resources (3QSO)
- Use for education (3QSP)
- Use for meetings (3QSQ)
MASHUPS (3QSR)
- Assist research enterprise by combining information across disciplines about problem solving approaches; spark collaboration (3QSS)
- Cull information from various data stores within NIH and bring it together for instance, combining PubMed citation and news to reveal outcomes of interdisciplinary science (3QST)
- Take parts of the Genome map and mash up with a physical representation and text (3QSU)
- Make funding opportunities more visible by, for instance, combining the XML service from the NIH Guide with IC Program information; or mashing up funded projects with PubMed citations (3QSV)
- Show thematic relationship among programs in different ICs and other agencies (3QSW)
- Create a map of funded projects in a particular Congressional district (3QSX)
SYNDICATION (3QSY)
- Create RSS feed for information that is new on the NIH website so that NIH Institutes and Centers can automatically add the new information without having to monitor the NIH website for updates. {Editor’s note: NIH has an RSS feed for its news releases) (3QSZ)
MEDIA SHARING (3QT0)
- Create podcasts in a talk radio format of NIH scientists in informal conversations (not scripted or overly planned) about research breakthroughs (Editor’s note: NIH does have podcasts providing health information) (3QT1)
- Create podcast of IC director talking about Nobel Prize winners at IC (3QT2)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) looking at creating chats online similar to The Washington Post (3QT3)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) conducts annual online chat with students on genetics on National DNA Day April 25 (3QT4)
- NIH should grow a presence on YouTube (3QT5)
- Use Digg (http://digg.com) internally within your IC to point to scientific articles that your IC thinks are good (3QT6)
- Allow other users to tag info and create key words (a useful site is www.librarything.com that shows you how to tag books) (3QT7)
For more information, please contact Jim Angus (angusj@mail.nih.gov). (3QT8)
Caption: NIH Office of Extramural Research: Funding for Research (3QTA)