Bright9 knows how to organize information to promote understanding.
Current Bright9 Projects:
MedLink
Corporation
Stanford
University School of Education
MedLink Corporation, San Diego
www.medlink.com
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a graphical "tour" of the site here
MedLink Corporation's mission is to provide authoritative and current clinical information to medical professionals. The MedLink team focuses on physician-oriented knowledge services, using electronic media and the Internet. MedLink most recently faced a project that required publishing online over 40,000 pages of text, 20,000 medical abstracts, and 700 pictures, diagrams, and videos for subscribing professionals in the field of Neurology.
MedLink chose Bright9 to help them execute this enormous knowledge management task. Bright9 made use of the power and flexibility that electronic publishing provides to integrate extensively cross-referenced topics and sophisticated searching, as well as dynamically updated medical news into the new MedLink Neurology site. These features, packaged in an intuitive interface, assist physicians in faster research and diagnosis.
Bright9 and MedLink knew that community-building features are key to creating a site that users rely upon daily -- to make the site truly valuable it would need to be highly interactive. To that end, MedLink Neurology features include physician-led Grand Rounds discussions and message boards.
Providing a massive amount of information to the MedLink Neurology subscribers, keeping it up-to-date, and making sure the site is meeting the subscribers' needs is a huge task. Therefore, special features for the MedLink editorial staff include an easy online interface allowing customizable home pages (with no HTML experience required) and detailed user tracking reports.
This is the first of 20 medical subspecialty websites that Bright9 will be developing for MedLink Corporation.
Stanford
University School of Education
Professional Development Website
...launching soon...sneak preview at:
http://rtg.stanford.edu
Since 1917, the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE) has worked towards being world leader in groundbreaking cross-disciplinary inquiry that shapes educational practices, their conceptual underpinnings, and the professions that serve the enterprise. When SUSE received funding from a Spencer Foundation Research Training Grant to create a Professional Development Website they asked Bright9 to collaborate.
The goal of the website is to support doctoral students in their professional development by providing access to valuable resources such as networking opportunities, research tools, funding sources, data sources, and methodology guidance. It was clear that in order for the site to succeed, it would need to be as dynamic as the SUSE community and powerful enough to manage the extensive amount of information they would have to share. Therefore, Bright9, with the input of SUSE faculty and doctoral students, conceived of a group of information-sharing features that would be highly interactive, allowing SUSE affiliates to drive the growth and evolution of the site content.
The site includes a searchable web directory, an events calendar, a full-text searchable profile/resume database, and discussion forums. SUSE students, faculty, staff, researchers, and alumni can access and contribute to all sections of the site, so it provides an essential communication and information-sharing tool for the larger SUSE community. Sections of the site, including the content in the profile/resume database and the web directory, is accessible to external interested parties, which allows SUSE to share its information with the public and showcase its talent.
Given the ever-changing nature of academic staffing environments, the site design couldn't require that editors or administrators need a lot of technical training to oversee the site content. To facilitate easy administration, the site includes intuitive administrative interfaces that allow user account management, editorial access to all site content, and tracking reports.
Bright9 will continue to work with SUSE to assist in the expansion of Professional Development Website.
