1. The document discusses exploring the use of Web 2.0 applications like blogs, podcasts, and wikis in health informatics and professional development. 2. It notes that Web 2.0 emphasizes interaction, collaboration, customization, and openness through digital tools and services. 3. Key aspects of Web 2.0 websites are that they are designed to deliver interactive applications to users and encourage open communication, decentralization, and freedom to share and reuse content across the Web.

1. Connections, Collaboration and Creativity: Exploring Web 2.0 Applications in Health Informatics and Professional Development The hi-blogs.info 'krew'

3. Connections, Collaboration and Creativity: Exploring Web 2.0 Applications in Health Informatics and Professional Development

4. W. Scott Erdley Clinical Associate Professor, University at Buffalo, NY, USA Peter J. Murray Founding Fellow, CHIRAD, UK Margaret Hansen Assistant Professor, The University of San Francisco, USA Karl Ø yri Nurse manager, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, Norway Rod Ward Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England, UK William F. Perry Kettering Medical Center, Ohio, USA

5. Collaborating on blogs, podcasts, vodcasts and other projects www.hi-blogs.info

6. Web 2.0 “ IT = interaction technology” this is 'presentation 2.0', re-using content ... and always in beta (aka, 'not quite in time') communication, connectivity, community re-use, reversion, mashup

7. Running order: Peter – Web 2.0 Bill – Live demo from USA Rod – Blogs Margaret – Podcasts (via podcast) Scott – Wikis Participants - Discussion

8. O’Reilly 2004 Second generation of the Web Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary , but rather, a gravitational core Collaboration Interaction customization Openness is the core paradigm of content, tools and services in Web 2.0 digital environments

10. From: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/10/the_best_thing_.html The best thing about Web 2.0 is that… nobody knows what the hell it really means. Even the ones who coined the term are still struggling to find a compact definition. And this is the true beauty and power of Web 2.0 - it makes people think.

11. Web 2.0 websites are different from those of early web development, retroactively labeled Web 1.0. They are designed to deliver interactive, versus static, applications to end-users. Their content is characterised by open communication, decentralised authority, and freedom to share and re-use materials across a more dynamic, interlinked and interactive World Wide Web. They are often referred to as 'read/write web' applications.

12. Ajax Ajax = Asynchronous JavaScript and XML Not a single technology – rather a group of technologies working together Truly interactive 2.0 applications Uses XHTML and CSS for markup applications JavaScript or Jscript to interact with display XHR (xmlhttprequest) as API