29th October 2007, 10:20 pm
There’s a new Web site devoted to bringing together community-level practices for dealing with public health emergencies. At the moment that site has over 130 practices from four countries, 22 states, and 33 counties. It’s available at PandemicPractices.org .
You can browse by states which have made information available, or you can browse by category. Categories include Triage Strategies, Risk Communications, and Community Engagement. I took a look at Surge Capacity.
There were a series of plans from several states and countries, including one for extended child care, one for medical coordination and care delivery process, and one for training, drills, and exercises. Each plan has not only a set of component parts (some more extensive than others) but also a description and comments from reviewers. This paragraph-or-so serves as a combination executive summary and minireview. The ones I looked at gave me a good overview of what’s available in the plan, its weak points, and how it might be used/adapted.
29th October 2007, 08:44 pm
You all may remember Gary Price who joined Ask.com not too long ago and KICKED JEEVES TO THE CURB! (Just kidding, Gary.) Besides helping to keep Ask.com going in the right direction, Gary is also continuing with ResourceShelf and has a nifty new collection available.
He’s started to track online encyclopedias which have some kind of government related involvement. He’s got half-a-dozen so far. You can see his second blog post with new additions at http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/10/15/13826/ . I see he’s got these posts tagged with several different categories, including Fast Facts and History, but I don’t see a tag specifically for online encyclopedias. You’ll have to keep watching the blog!
28th October 2007, 12:44 pm
Ha! My mania for boiled peanuts has been vindicated!
NLM: health effects from wildfires.
Latest Google Labs graduate: Google Transit.
UCSB gets grant to digitize art collections.
The Roanoke Times releases several new databases for its readership.
News and events in the Tampa Bay area: http://heyjuicy.com/ . Apparently still in beta.
Montana State Library is going digital.
Library of Congress and UNESCO teaming up. Details at the Washington Post.
CyberAlert launches editorial calendars service.
