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Blogs
A blog is an online editorial or article that expresses an author's opinion, observations, or expertise on specific topics, events, or activities. Members can be encouraged to create their own blog on a specific topic and solicit opinions from other bloggers within your community - a great way to share ideas, ignite innovations, and deepen relationships with your colleagues and partners. Alternatively, expert blogger programs can be structured to provide expert advice on a variety of topics. By sharing experience and receiving information in a less structured way people quickly come to realize how much faster they are able to solicit opinions and accelerate the pace of innovation. Blogs can be public, private, or accessible only to designated audiences
In healthcare, a Blog feature might be used for case study collection, review, discussion / announcements, news and updates / data release, review, discussion / consensus building / meeting planning, communication, & evaluation / expert blogger programs in specific speciality areas
Forums
Forums are online discussions that facilitate interaction and collaboration; members can gather and discuss relevant topics, pose questions to one another; all through your web browser, BlackBerry device or email program.
In a healthcare community, the Forum feature may be used to facilitate dicussions on news, data, hot issues, research ideas, or virtually anything else of interest to members. Depending on how you set permissions within your community, individual members may start discussions or seek feedback from colleagues on any topic of interest to them.
Wikis
Wikis facilitate the building of a body of knowledge collaboratively. Members can actively contribute to the development and refinement of any body of knowledge in a secure online setting. Wikis can be set up as a "living" collaborative document that always contains the most recent project-related information, and access can be assigned to specific individuals or groups within a community.
In a healthcare community, the Wiki feature may be used to build and edit protocols, research papers, grant applications, practice guidelines, or anything else where numerous contributors work together to build a common body of knowledge.
Notifications & Broadcasting
Need to get word out quickly? Broadcast the latest issue or data instantly to all or select community members. Broadcast announcements or meeting invitations, highlight significant milestones for projects, new publications, data releases and more. An instant message will be sent to members email address. When members click on the link within the email, they will be brought into the relevant spot in the community where they can leave their feedback, register for their meeting, or perform whatever task is at hand.
Events Calendar
Post and promote events; day and month views; browse, search and view all events (past, present, upcoming). Broadcast events and reminders to member's email. Download event information directly to your calendar of smart phone. Past events are stored in a searchable archive area.
Meetings
Plan, manage, communicate, and evaluate your meetings online. Broadcast event details, reminders, and updates as the meeting approaches. Use our survey feature to conduct online needs assessments and post meeting evaluations. Simple online registration and collection of registration fees. Maintain a community of attendees from year to year.
Market Research, Surveys & Polls
Integrated online questionnaires can be broadcast to audiences using a wide variety of formats.
Commenting
Members can add comments quickly and easily to almost any published content using a simple commenting box. No more need to download large powerpoint presentations or documents, which can be quickly viewed and commented on within the community. Replaces the need for group email, and consolidates all comments in one place for team review. Access can be assigned and comments for all documents can be open, closed, or disabled.
Click to see example (link to a blog with lots of comments)
Rating
Members can rate any type of document (MS Office, PDF, multimedia etc) in the online community using 5 star rating system. Members can only rate a specific piece of content once thus avoiding skewed ratings. Ratings can be enabled or disabled.
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