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The Path of Support on Healthinfo Island in Second Life offers guidance to people interested in the healthcare support groups in this virtual world.  However, in a greater sense, it is offering real healthcare to real people.  The Path introduces one to the variety and range of support groups available.
While healthcare in a virtual world [...]

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Sometimes the muse hits (for better or worse) and creative passions take me a bit too far.  Here’s a couple examples for your amusement:
During a LinkedIn discussion on attending events inworld, I went off about folks who merely replicate a PowerPoint presentation, and not utilize all that a virtual world can provide:
For informational presentations, I [...]

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Since May of 2009, I have been posting almost daily tweets on how healthcare orgs might use social  media.  @John_Norris with the tag #hcsm
I finished up the first 100 tips  in late September 2009.
Below are the next 100 tweets.
The example I use is Twitter, but any microblogging and socially connected platform would do.  I put [...]

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rexlibris, a magazine for librarians, put up a nice interview about my work in Second Life and the Path of Support.
I’m Knoh Oh in Second Life. The Path is a way to show people inworld the diversity of healthcare support groups…and is growing so fast it is hard to keep track!

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While looking up the efficacy of online support groups, I found this rather timely information. It concerns what people wanted from their hospital during the SARS outbreak.  (The bold is my emphasis)
Their most frequent suggestion was the ability to communicate with
family members, as visits were restricted. Others wanted to use the
Internet to access their electronic [...]

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I’m not much for popularity contests, but it is critical to know just who and what is going on in one’s area.  For this reason, I installed some simple counters that report to me the number of different avatars per hour…but not their names…for the sake of privacy.
The Path of Support is a place to [...]

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Not automatic, but nothing went wrong so I’m OK with it.

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Please excuse some old stuff re-posted.  I plan on putting up all my old content, but in its own area.  I am adding highly requested items directly into the new, spiffy, blog.

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5 years of blogging and I’m moving over to Wordpress and a new host. Radio Userland was working just fine, but I ran into a hitch with Yahoo Domains and “cannot relay” with my email, so it is over to Bluehost.
I should have moved awhile back as most of my content is not linked [...]

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No, really…Hello World!

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