Staying up-to-date the easy way

Tips on how you can stay abreast of developments in your area using free and easy-to-use tools that are available on the Internet.

Calling all readers: your feedback is requested

Here’s your chance to feedback on which articles you found most useful and what you’d like to be reviewed next.

Inhaling the web – UPDATED

UPDATED: Medical communicators new to a topic/therapy area who want learn what social media is saying about the topic can now do so amazingly quickly by ‘inhaling the web’. Now includes HealthMash.

Are personal webportals useful for medical communicators?

Overcome the clutter of a crowded browser toolbar by including your most often used websites on a webportal that acts your default home page. Find out which webportal technology came up trumps in the test carried out by a non-technical medical writer.

Harnessing the power of Web 2.0 for medical writers

A companion piece to A look at (free) medical and science search tools (see below), this article looks at Web 2.0 applications that may be of use to researchers and writers in the biomedical fields.

Search tips

Check out some good tips when searching with Google, available at: www.journalism.co.uk/insite/?p=578

PLos debates professional writers

Call for transparency when using professional medical writers