UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog: September 2009 Archives

Technology then and now:

Here's an excerpt from the PEW Internet study on the social life of health information (June 2009):

Overview

Americans' pursuit of health takes place within a widening network of both online and offline sources. Whereas someone may have in the past called a health professional, their Mom, or a good friend, they now are also reading blogs, listening to podcasts, updating their social network profile, and posting comments. And many people, once they find health information online, talk with someone about it offline.

This Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation survey finds that technology is not an end, but a means to accelerate the pace of discovery, widen social networks, and sharpen the questions someone might ask when they do get to talk to a health professional. Technology can help to enable the human connection in health care and the internet is turning up the information network's volume.
About the Survey

The findings in this report come from a national phone survey done by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation. Some 2,253 adults, age 18 and older, were interviewed in December 2008 about the social impact of the internet on health care. The interviews were conducted in English or Spanish and included 502 cell-phone interviews.

Read the full report online or download the PDF.

When using InDesign, you may see the terms "bleed", "slug" and "gutter". If you are wondering what they mean, here is a breakdown:

• Gutter: The width between columns.
• Bleed and Slug: Control how materials print beyond the page boundary.
• Bleed: Allows you to over-ride the edge of the document/paper (color, photo or text). Used mostly for printing presses where the paper may shift and you don't want white space.
• Slug: Area beyond the bleed where printers marks appear (for folding/trimming). The marks are removed during trimming.

A free webinar, titled: "How to Make Online Training as Interactive and Effective as In-Person Training", will be conducted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 2 PM (EDT).

Concepts covered include:

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