Posted by shar on July 9, 2000, at 23:50:42
In reply to Re: links experiment » medlib, posted by Oddzilla on July 9, 2000, at 20:30:58
If there were volunteers to search the archives and sort of sketch out what's there, that could help establish categories. I would be willing to take an archived period and analyze it.
We could ignore the personals, and focus on specific drugs, or specific situations (suicide), or hospitalization. Whatever the archives tell us. Sort of a content analysis approach.
Deciding what to include in a link, and what to leave out...that could get interesting. We could leave out redundancies.
I'll keep following the posts.
Shar> Hi Medlib-I'm glad you came back.
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> There's so much repetition if just the most relevant posts were put in the folder it would be much more useful than endless threads and the same answers and questions over and over. For instance there might be an Effexor withdrawal folder with the best posts about that topic, an Effexor success folder,an Effexor side effects folder, etc. I'm not sure how narrow each should be to be most useful. What do you think? Aren't you a Librarian? You returned just in the nick of time!
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> It seems like it should be oriented towards being most useful rather than complete. The posts can be re-titled to make the contents clearer and more accessible. I would guess? that people would be able to add to any folder something they thought was relevant and had been left out.
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> If everyone worked on an area that had interest for them, it would naturally be tailored towards people who might be interested in the same area.
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> I would like to see a folder for some of the best posts for encouraging suicidal people because some of them have meant a lot to me .
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> Perhaps there could be folders for specific diagnosis or therapies,etc.
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> I think the best part of having Babblers do it would be that we know what would have been helpful to us.
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> I think it would be possible to have the same post in more than one folder if it was relevant to both. At the same time a lot of repetition could be weeded out.
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> These are all my own impressions-they may not be what Dr. Bob had in mind at all.
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> I was actually thinking of more of a "Best of" version of whats in Babble for people who were too tired to try and search the archives.
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> I think the most valuable part of PB is the personal experience unless the information is referenced.
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> Do you think it would be a good idea for someone (like possibly you :-) to start an organized sytem of naming folders and then let people add to the ones they are interested in?
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> It's possible that I've totally missed the point(it sure wouldn't be the first time). Best Wishes O.
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