An info pro's Web 2.0 tool kit

A colleague emailed me the other day to ask me what Web 2.0 tools and resources are critical for research. Following are what come to mind for me... what else would you use for search (not professional development or other non-research tasks)?

• a good blog-search tool like Technorati.com
• a familiarity with Google News Timelines and Google Search Timelines
• a couple of discussion forum search tools, such as Board Tracker and Board Reader
• a trending tool for analyzing buzz over time, like Blog Pulse, and Google Trends and  Google Insights
• a podcast search tool like Podscope or Everyzing
• at least one professional-oriented social network service, such as LinkedIn
• possibly familiarity with and participation in Twitter

Comments

[Marcy Phelps]

This is a great list, Mary Ellen. I'm currently working on a presentation for the Business Marketing Association called "Mining Web 2.0 for Market Research," so this will come in handy. Thanks much.

[Busby SEO Challenge]

interesting post.this is a great blog...love it.. thanks

[Karen Estrada]

I really like your web site and blog; I've learned quite a few things (loved the "Day in the Life" article re: dogs barking... we have one who barks at the mailman!).

Back on point, a few Web 2.0 tools in Medicine (medical pros would already know these, so these are basic/target for non-medical/medicine information professionals):

All the resources you have mentioned have medical/research info. (YouTube, Flickr, ...).

A few others off the top of my head: EBM Wiki, Clinical Cases & Images Blog (*really good!), MedWorm (Medicine RSS), WikiSurgery.com, Biowizard (*the 'basic' version is free but the more comprehensive version is $ ... but its a great resource especially for conference proceedings), PubMed Interact, HealthMap.org