Social news and social bookmarking the difference and their use in Medical and health care
Social news and social bookmarking services and sites , are web2.0 services that allow users to store , organize, search, and manage news and links , though the concept of using social news and social bookmarking services for medical and health care use , was not clear , till some researchers decide to direct the wave for research .
The difference between social news and social bookmarking :
Social News :
The famous example is DIGG , its about sharing news and stories where users submit , vote and rate on news stories or other links . Social news is a tools for organizing the blog sphere , which supply the internet each days with million of articles , posts , resources through links .
Social news is based on the idea of sharing and rating , which comes very handy , when some users like the submitted links they vote for it , which you give the user very simple way to browse the top rated posts and links .
examples of social news : DIGG , Designfloat .
Social Bookmarking :
The concept of social bookmarking is : instead of saving your bookmarks on your desktop browsers , you can save them online , which give the user the capability to access them everywhere . Social bookmarking services allow the user to submit , save and categorize their bookmarks ,online and either they want to put their links privately or share them for public .
However the concept of social bookmarking shares the concept of handling links with social news , Social bookmarking is a tool more than publishing system as social news .
Examples of social bookmarking : Reddit , Delicious .
Features of Social bookmarking and social news :
Tagging and Categories :
Social services either social bookmarking or social news are using 2 different to classify materials ,Tags and Categories : Tags are keywords to describe the object ( link , post , article ) while categories use to classify the object type or field ( as video , link , article or , All tag-based classification of links , articles and resources is done by users ,
Rating :
Users can rate the saved and published news , which can put a priority on the saved links , to classify the links on top priorities or not .
Comments :
Users can comment on the submitted news , to share their opinions about them , however , comments can bring up discussions about the submitted link , article , topic or news . which is good thing .
RSS feeds :
Rss feeds for the whole submitted news or special news category , if the user is interested with special news category he can follow the RSS feed of that news .
Tagging and categories :
tagging in social bookmarking and social news services is a human based , so as categories , its easy when users classify their submitted links to categories and tag them with the proper tags .which will ease the search and browsing .
Social bookmarking and social news use in medicine , health care and science :
Research :
Social news and social bookmarking is human powered , in fact its people activity powered ,which provide the research ground which tons of submitted data by the users . the use of social news and bookmarking in research has came up lately in some social news and bookmarking services .
Using social news and bookmarking in research will :
- Easy , simple and usable ground for sharing news links and updates .
- Human experience in collecting , saving , sharing and tagging .
- Open discussions about topics of interest .
- Save the researchers the time by searching what other researcher submit , tagged , saved and classified .
Medical education :
Undergraduate Medical students and Postgraduate physicians will gain the same advantage as researchers from using social bookmarking and social news , in fact social news and bookmarks is the proper idea for :
- Sharing educational medical resources all over the web
- browsing and searching the educational material and resource in categories ,
- rate and discuss the materials submitted .
Online Medical resources :
There are tons of online medical resources , web sites , media , and realted contents , though , many of those contents , still living in the stone age of the web ( web1.0 ) also there is no spcial categorized archieve for such materials . however using a social bookmarking to organize , categorized and share the online medical resources will ease the time and effort which are losing searching for needed materials .
Blogshere officer :
Every day , Hundruds to thouthands of blogs are updated , many posts are added , and many news are there every day , however social news system will provide a proper proper flagship news portal for tracking and rating those news . as well as classify them to categories and tagging them with the proper keywords for search .
Conclusion :
Using social news systems and social bookmarking services has great impact for special use in other fields other than health care and medicine as technology news , education , entertainments .The needs for special social news portals and bookmarking for health care and medical use stands for educational propose , organizing online resources , as well as an interface portal for the health care and medical blogshpere .
Hamza Emadeen Mousa
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