Comments on: Another idea bites the dust http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2006/10/03/another-idea-bites-the-dust/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:01:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Ryan http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2006/10/03/another-idea-bites-the-dust/#comment-180 Ryan Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:29:25 +0000 http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/?p=172#comment-180 Hi Unity, thanks for stopping by. I agree that our thinking is aligned and I see a lot of potential in the site. The expert wisdom combined with shared wisdom is a very useful approach. Obviously, critical mass will be key on the shared wisdom to make the site ultimately really reach its potential. But, even the clean presentation and search of the expert wisdom (which is generally available already) is a nice improvement on the current crop of medical sites, which are often so cluttered. Not to get too buzzword centric, but I think a folksonomy (tagging) would go a long way towards improving navigation. Let users tag their wisdom cards (could be tags for conditions, symptons, treatments, medicine, etc.). The health library would also be great to tag (even letting user's tag it), for instance tagging skin cancer articles with 'skin' and 'cancer' rather than navigating through 187 cancer articles. The search seems to be good though, so that helps. Drop me a line if you're interested in this and other feedback as you work through the site. Hi Unity, thanks for stopping by. I agree that our thinking is aligned and I see a lot of potential in the site. The expert wisdom combined with shared wisdom is a very useful approach. Obviously, critical mass will be key on the shared wisdom to make the site ultimately really reach its potential. But, even the clean presentation and search of the expert wisdom (which is generally available already) is a nice improvement on the current crop of medical sites, which are often so cluttered.

Not to get too buzzword centric, but I think a folksonomy (tagging) would go a long way towards improving navigation. Let users tag their wisdom cards (could be tags for conditions, symptons, treatments, medicine, etc.). The health library would also be great to tag (even letting user’s tag it), for instance tagging skin cancer articles with ’skin’ and ‘cancer’ rather than navigating through 187 cancer articles. The search seems to be good though, so that helps.

Drop me a line if you’re interested in this and other feedback as you work through the site.

]]> By: Unity Stoakes http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/2006/10/03/another-idea-bites-the-dust/#comment-179 Unity Stoakes Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:05:06 +0000 http://www.webthingsconsidered.com/?p=172#comment-179 Ryan, appreciate the post..And obviously we think it was a great idea so if we had been part of Cambrian House perhaps we'd all be working together! Since we are just starting out, and we know we have a lot of work to get to where we want, we'd love any feedback or suggestions you have. Our thinking seems to be aligned and we'd love to get some fresh honest perspective... Ryan, appreciate the post..And obviously we think it was a great idea so if we had been part of Cambrian House perhaps we’d all be working together! Since we are just starting out, and we know we have a lot of work to get to where we want, we’d love any feedback or suggestions you have. Our thinking seems to be aligned and we’d love to get some fresh honest perspective…

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