Amazing extensive Medlib round this time on Knowledge | Beyond Words. I especially liked: A review of the main reference management softwares on Knowledge beyond words by Valentin. Interestingly, most of them are free and web-based. Therefore they are accessible from anywhere through private account and remain free. We will present the main reference management softwares you should know and then show the results of the poll launched on twitter. Adding Methodological Filters to MyNCBI posted at Laika’s MedLibLog by Jacqueline. Jacqueline has created a great tutorial to learn how to add methodological filters to MyNCBI. What is Google Wave and why should I care? .....read more »

The MedLib’s Round, the monthly blog carnival that highlights some of the best writing on medical librarianship, encompassing all stages in the publication and dissemination of medical information: writing, publishing, searching, citing, managing and social networking is up at Highlight Health. I especially liked: MedlinePlus vs. healthfinder: Must We Choose? why there are two major consumer health information sites supported by the government — MedlinePlus and healthfinder.gov. So how can you make sense of the millions of websites and find online health information that is reliable? Can You Trust That Health Website? Do you subscribe to RSS feeds? Are you using social media? Have you .....read more »

The new Palliative Care Grand Rounds is up. It's the monthly review of the best of palliative care related blogs. This month I am handing out awards because I am so glad to see so many bloggers talking about palliative care issues and I think some of them need to be recognized. If you need to pick up your award, feel free to come visit me in Kansas City. Hope I will be in the neighborhood of Kansas City in the near future to collect my award.Related posts: Differences between Palliative Sedation and Euthanasia Grand Rounds at See First Grand Rounds 5:45 .....read more »

This video was made by Rohit Bhargava who the famous medical blogger Kevin Pho of KevinMD on the the Blogworld Expo, about why he blogs, what results he has seen and the future of the medical blogosphere the future of Medical Blogging. He makes clear why it is important for doctors to blog. This was a week ago the Blogworld Expo, the World largest Conference on Blogging in the Las Vegas Convention Center. Would have liked to join those famous bloggers. As Laikas put it: I’m blogging in my spare time and although it has many spin-offs for my work, I .....read more »

This blog carnival collects together the best non-technical science writing that has appeared around the blogosphere in the last few months, to promote and celebrate science, nature or medicine blogs written for the public. In this edition, we have a glut of posts related to climate change, and an equally large group of posts about the interaction of science and society. Along the way, we will also cover some basic science posts from physics and biology. I especially liked: What is global warming at Mama Joules, an easy to read, well documented, and clear explanation of global warming and it's consequences. Why I should .....read more »

MEDLIB’s ’spooktacular’ round 1.7 is up at Alisha764’s Blog: A solo medical librarian’s ramblings. A blog carnival of “excellent posts in the field of medical librarianship.” Amongst excellent topics also the long awaited PubMed redesign was previewed this week. Another highly anticipated preview was Google Wave. You could argue both previews have brought to light issues with the new products; however, each holds promise for changing the medical library field. The discussion about H1N1 flu and vaccination is another topic leading to several excellent posts. Check it out at Alisha764’s Blog: A solo medical librarian’s ramblingsRelated posts: MedLib’s Round First Edition MedLib’s .....read more »

Welcome to Grand Rounds, a weekly round-up of the best of the medical blogosphere. We here at Pallimed (Drew, Lyle, Amy, Amber and myself) are honored to be hosting Grand Rounds for the 3rd time.....The theme this week is "The Art of Medicine and Nursing" in honor of our sister blog Pallimed: Arts and Humanities. A variety of the best from the medblogs all over the world, read it at Pallimed Related posts: Palliative Care Grand Rounds 1.10 Grand Round at Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog Grand Rounds: Diversity ..read more »

Why blog? Certainly a small part of the fun is hoping for admiration and affirmation. I check my blog stats and google analytics regularly and a peak in readers certainly is another boost for writing more posts. Eventually you get to "know" your colleague bloggers, and human contact grows. The most important reason for me to blog is to keep up with developments in my field and make ideas and these developments known and published. A growing number of professionals have started weblogging to share their personal knowledge. What factors influence this knowledge sharing with bloggers? A recent study published the results .....read more »

Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts and selected links I posted on Twitter [recreading]Related posts: Recommended Reading This Week Recommended Reading from This Week Recommended Reading This Week ..read more »

The incredible web savvy Laika has another grand round published this week. Did I tell you that you can also follow her on twitter? Welcome to the latest edition of Grand Rounds, the weekly compilation of the best of the medical blogosphere! I presume you would rather take a tour through the Netherlands, visiting windmills and tulips, but we will save this for another time. Right now, let’s take a trip around the library. She did a terrific job and summarized an awful lot of excellent posts, check it out on her blog Related posts: Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 52 up at Suture .....read more »