Feedback please
25 Jan, 08 | by Ian Wacogne
Hello. I promise I’ll do this only once, although I’m going to try to leave a permanent link from one of the pages on the right of the screen to here.
I’d just like some feedback please
You can, of course, make any suggestions. The things I’d like to know are:
- Is anyone out there reading this? We can get a bit of an idea from the servers at BMJ publishing, but it would be good to know. If you’re just lurking - which is of course fine - it would give me a boost if you could just leave a comment like “I’m here”
- Do you find the posts helpful? Am I getting it right? There is a big risk when you reduce months of someone’s work to a single line that you’re going to miss the point. I’ve not had any complaints yet, but I’m looking forward to some…
- Is there anything else I should be doing? When I did the early precis I used to do the reviews too, but these were very dull to precis - “This is a review of condition X” and so on. But what do you think?
- How do you read precis, if at all? Do you come here to the blog, or do you use an RSS feed on google like this:
? Does anyone use another RSS reader that I’ve not put a link for automatic addition to here? If you use the feed, does that mean you click straight through to the journal without coming to the blog?
- The posts which take a long time but which I like the most are these - the issue posts. Personally I’d like to try to find a way to get them come once a month to your inbox - I think they look pretty good etc, and about 100 times better than the old precis emails which highwire sent out which stripped out all of the code and made the email look like a till receipt circa 1983. What do you think - would you subscribe to that if it were available?
I’d love to hear from you, and will promise anything received, however, critical, as long as it is not spam or actually offensive!
Ian Wacogne 25th January 2008
Precis helpful though would be good if CPD points could be claimed for contributing to the blog. I think precis of key points of the reviews would be useful especially if there are any practice changing points. You haven’t included Safari as an RSS browser. Would subscribe to a post.
Vin
January 26th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Thanks; I’ll look into the CPD in the future - or at least try to enter the arcane world of CPD approval…
Re: safari, can’t find a way of putting a specific button for a feed, but this implies that, like with most browsers, you’ll get an “RSS” appear at the end of your address line when there is a feed available which you can use for browser-specific feed reading. If there are any geeks or nerds out there with a better answer, please let me know…
iwacogne
January 26th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I have just started to use it following your recent article in ADC about Web2.0 (very good article, by the way, which I have already used on a hospital grand round presentation on clinical informatics). It’s probably a bit early to give you any other feedback, sorry.
Markus Hesseling
January 29th, 2008 at 10:22 pm