Links and References Using Web 2.0 Social Technology to Build a Cyber-infrastructure for an Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Community of Practice (CoP) Open Atrium is an Intranet and team portal package based on Drupal. It is extensible and customizable and comes with a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to-do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all. Elgg is a free, award- winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments. Elgg is totally configurable and customiz- able with core and 3rd-party plugins. Google Apps is Google’s SaaS providing inde- pendently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name and featuring several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites. Microsoft SharePoint is a proprietary software platform developed for collaboration and web publishing combined under a single server. Capabilities include developing portals, content manage- ment systems, search engines, wikis, and blogs. PBworks is a paid subscription service and the world’s largest provider of hosted collaboration solutions for business and education. They host over one million team workspaces and serve millions of users per month. Platforms Evaluated Michelle C. Farabough, BA, MSKM Frances K. Wen, PhD Cecelia Brown, PhD, MLIS Lynn Yeager, MLIS Steven D. Shelton, MLIS CDC National Conference Health Communication, Marketing and Media August 17–19, 2010 • Atlanta, Georgia Questions? Contact Me! Michelle C. Farabough BA, MSKM School of Community Medicine University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Tulsa Campus [email protected] OU Family Medicine Clinic 1111 South Saint Louis Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74120 918-619-4758 Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/MichelleFarabough Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/MichelleFarabough LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/MichelleFarabough Twitter: http://twitter.com/Michelle_KMer Blog: KMisCommunication.wordpress.com Poster pdf and additional study information S lideshar e.net/M ichelleF arabough For more author information about enterprise 2.0 KMRM.com How Companies are Benefiting from Web 2.0 M cKinseyQ uar terly .com/B usiness_T echnology .com The Impact of the Internet on Institutions Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project P e wR esear ch.org Using Web 2.0 for Health Care Research and Education Eysenbach, G. Medicine 2.0: social networking, collabora- tion, participation, apomediation, and openness J Med Internet Res 2008; 10(3):e22 http://www .jmir .org/2008/3/e22/ Boulos, K. and Wheeler, S. The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education Health Information & Libraries Journal 2007; 24(1):e23 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x