A curriculum vitae (CV) provides an overview of a person's experience and other qualifications. In some countries, a CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment. The curriculum vitae is comparable to a résumé in many countries, although in English Canada and the United States it is substantially different.A résumé is a simpler document while the CV is expected to thoroughly outline your education and your professional history (think jobs, volunteer work, publications, presentations etc...). In the words of the University of Waterloo's Career Services:
What is a curriculum vitae?
A presentation of credentials for a research/teaching position in a university, a research institute,
or company with R&D requirements. A résumé (two pages maximum) is prepared for employers
outside the academic and research environment
An indispensable job hunting tool that represents an objective, factual, personal history of you -
an advertisement designed to market you by highlighting your abilities and future potential
A summary of your career aspirations, educational background, employment experience,
achievements, and interests
Key headings to include in your cv:
- Name
- Address/Telephone/Email
- Citizenship
- Research and/or Professional Inter ests
- Education/Professional Training/Certifications
- Employment
- Publications
- Presentations
- Awards/Scholarships
- Professional Affiliations
- Volunteer Work
- Languages
- Hobbies
Here are some creative takes on CVs:
HOMEWORK due before Monday's Class:
Students will choose two researchers in their field who use delicious and write a paragraph (as a blog comment on THIS post) noting:
- The importance of each researcher
- The types of resources each researcher bookmarks
- The clarity and/or style of tagging that each researcher employs
Remember, if you post a comment under an alias, make sure I know who you are by sending me an e-mail!
For those of you who don't read the comments. Here is some additional help:
Some ways to find people using delicious.
You might check out the scientists you have followed on Twitter and see if any of them use delicious (look at their blogs)
You can also do a google search for researchers/key people in your field, have a look at their blogs and see if they have a delicious tag cloud.
I know I was involved with an creative writing new media online course and I was interested in their delicious links: http://www.delicious.com/cwnm
Howard Rheingold, a key player in my field and in new media in general (you might be interested too!): http://delicious.com/hrheingold
I mentioned in class (and on my cv) that I'm part of the Transliteracy Research Group so I keep up to date with those bookmarks too: http://www.delicious.com/transliteracy
Of course, our class is on delicious too: http://delicious.com/ales204
An interesting article on how to use delicious in research: go here
Note: delicious is still working out some bugs due to the move from Yahoo... you can read about it here.
For those of you who don't read the comments. Here is some additional help:
Some ways to find people using delicious.
You might check out the scientists you have followed on Twitter and see if any of them use delicious (look at their blogs)
You can also do a google search for researchers/key people in your field, have a look at their blogs and see if they have a delicious tag cloud.
I know I was involved with an creative writing new media online course and I was interested in their delicious links: http://www.delicious.com/cwnm
Howard Rheingold, a key player in my field and in new media in general (you might be interested too!): http://delicious.com/hrheingold
I mentioned in class (and on my cv) that I'm part of the Transliteracy Research Group so I keep up to date with those bookmarks too: http://www.delicious.com/transliteracy
Of course, our class is on delicious too: http://delicious.com/ales204
An interesting article on how to use delicious in research: go here
Note: delicious is still working out some bugs due to the move from Yahoo... you can read about it here.
CVs seem like a more effective way of presenting your skills & experiences than resumes. However, being so early in our career (as students), I fear that our CVs will not be too impressive. For example, I have not had much experience in the nutrition field, it is hard to get hired for a summer / part-time job in this industry, so my experiences and work-related skills will not be extensive on a CV...I would have to find a way around this to make myself look impressive on paper in a CV application.
ReplyDeletePrior to this morning's class, I have never encountered a CV before. The example CVs presented in class demonstrate that there are so many ways to make a CV.
ReplyDeleteBased on the presentations, I think the format used depends on what experiences, education, accomplishments, and professional progress one has attained.
Also, it was really interesting to see how many publications the TA's have and what kinds of activities they are involved in.
In regards to my own CV, I have never made one before, and I am worried that I won't have enough to put on it. Is it okay if it is more like a resume?
I really like the idea of making a graphical CV. They are simple, eye catching, and force me to only include the most important information. Most importantly they look like they will be fun to make as opposed to an old text based one....
ReplyDeleteA CV is a way to display how diverse and versatile you are as an individual and student. From today's lecture I have learned that CV's can be presented in a wide variety of ways. The most effective appear to be straightward and easy to read, but still have sufficient detail. It will pay off to take the time to create a professional CV.
ReplyDeleteHearing that the average cv is viewed for thirty seconds I really liked the idea of a visual cv with some aspects of the tag cloud. This seems as though it would be a good eye catching summary of your accomplishments that you could follow up on with a more traditional, linear cv.
ReplyDeleteTo me a CV just sounds like a different word for resume. I think that if I saw resumes with strange formatting I would think it was unprofessional and not contact the person. However, I guess it all depends on the job you are applying for.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how to find researchers on delicious, any tips?
CV is more of a detail resume. It is specifically catered to a job your applying for. Like some of the TA'S who are interested in research they've listed their lab experiences and lab techniques they are familiar with. Pam gave a good tip: write down any award you've received write away because your likely to forget what/when you got it. I should start building my CV!
ReplyDeletej_lukac--im in the same boat as you...no clue how to find researchers.
I am also unsure as to how we find researchers on delicious?
ReplyDeleteThat's right Jereym, Laura and Kylie: a CV is a more academic version of a résumé. If you were going to apply for a job at, say, Tim Hortons, you would probably just use a résumé to outline your recent work experience. However, if you were applying for funding, a grant/scholarship, a Master's degree, or anything academic (research positions too), you would most definitely want to use a CV. Starting today to cite your full academic accomplishments means that when you want to apply for funding, or a learn abroad scheme, you'll be ready!
ReplyDeleteExtremely useful class today about CV's. I definitely need to make one and use it for my future. It was great to see the different templates and types of CV's from the TA's. If you're applying for a job and hand in an impressive CV, chances are you'll beat out the other applicants who hand in a simple resume!
ReplyDeleteSome ways to find people using delicious.
ReplyDeleteYou might check out the scientists you have followed on Twitter and see if any of them use delicious (look at their blogs)
You can also do a google search for researchers/key people in your field, have a look at their blogs and see if they have a delicious tag cloud.
I know I was involved with an creative writing new media online course and I was interested in their delicious links: http://www.delicious.com/cwnm
Howard Rheingold, a key player in my field and in new media in general (you might be interested too!): http://delicious.com/hrheingold
I mentioned in class (and on my cv) that I'm part of the Transliteracy Research Group so I keep up to date with those bookmarks too: http://www.delicious.com/transliteracy
An interesting article on how to use delicious in research: http://gatheringinlight.com/2008/03/17/tips-for-using-delicious-in-doctoral-research/
For my first research I am writing about I chose dbedry. This preson has links on their page about nutrition and how to be nutritious on a budget. This kind of research is pretty important because it will teach the public how to eat healthy and maintain a healthy lifestyle while staying on budget. The tag's she uses are nutrition, budget, and healthy. I think this is a very good way of tagging her bookmarks.
ReplyDeleteThe second research I discovered is deliciousfoody. This research has healthy foods on her page. This is a great way of communicating what healthy foods are available to the public. The types of tags this researcher used were healthy, eating, nutrition, recipes. All the tags are a great way to get the information out there.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sydney and Caroline for sharing your researchers. And yes, Caroline, it is sometimes tricky to find reliable sources using delicious. Your work-around is fine!
ReplyDeleteI also found it difficult to find credible researchers in the nutrition field through delicious.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found using delicious was Jessica Maillet, a registered dietician and certified personal trainer. She stresses the importance of clean, fair and delicious food and focuses her blog on educating people about wholesome and local food which improves the environment and community. Her bookmarks include other nutrition blogs, articles about health/nutrition/recipes, and articles that she has written. Recipe, Restaurant, Local, Travel, and Farmers Market stand out the most in her tag cloud but it also has a lot of other tags including specific recipes, specific restaurants, cities, and many, many, many more. Even though she has so many tags, the fact that she has some that really stand out makes her tag cloud effective.
The second researcher's blog I found was much less formal and more personal. Carrie is a registered dietician with her MS in clinical nutrition. She does not include many bookmarks but her tag cloud is very effective! it includes a variety of sizes of words and the number of times it had been used right beside each word.
I couldn't find any researches in my field but i did find people with a passion for food and nutrition. The first person i found on Delicious is "deliciousfoody". She has great links to many food recipes for meals, desserts, and smoothies. She also posts websites with general health food information and she summarizes nutrition articles. The second person i am following is "icarusalsoflew". She as well posts links to food and drink recipes, baking and cooking tips, and good food combos. Unfortunately, neither of these people created tags for their links or had any resources bookmarked. Although these two people are not very professional, i enjoyed going through their saved links because i found many of them to be interesting and useful. I will most likely try out some of the recipes i found today.
ReplyDeleteAt first I had absolutely no idea what a CV was but kept hearing that we were going to be doing one. Today I learned more about it and think it can be very useful. As of now I do not have much experience in my field of work, have publications, or attended any conferences nor presented at any. However, a CV is a much better idea then a resume if you are applying for academic purposes. There are many opportunities to be creative in how you make your own CV as well. I'm glad I was able to learn about CV's so now I know what people expect to see in one.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found on Delicious is "ajengm". He/she has various links to pages with nutrition facts on common foods as well as foods not so common loaded with good nutrients for the body. His/Hers stack is focused mainly on the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables and foods that normally don't come with a nutrition label. They have incorporated around 50 links to other sites so your guaranteed to find something! The second person I have found on Delicious is immaveggieman. His blog/delicious stack focuses on recipes and healthy eating. His recipes are vegetarian friendly as well as nutritionally friend. He also summarizes and promotes the links so you know where your going and getting into before you click it! Although his only includes 8 other links, it still has plenty to consider and learn from.
ReplyDeleteRicky clark was the first researcher that I found on delicious. He talks about health supplements and how individuals should the best type of supplements for yourself. I think it is very important due to the fact that not everyone has a nutrition background and should be educated on how to pick certain supplements or foods for your own body. The resources he shows are fully based on supplements and what kind of supplements are healthy and best for yourself, whether you are a female, male, or diabetic, they have some good advice for you. It not only tells you what supplements are healthy but also how to pick out the healthy ones on your own. Ricky clark has tags only under nutrition and I think he could have put supplements to be exact and narrow down people's searches.
ReplyDeleteColette Bouchez is the second researcher I found who studied how sleep can affect your weight. Sleep is very important for everyone and is stated that the amount and quality of sleep you get each night can initiate hormone activity in which ties to your appetite. She talks about two types of hormones Leptin and ghreli. I think it is important for people to know what is going on in there own body and how they can stay healthy. She states that with little sleep, leptin levels decrease which leads to unsatisfaction after you eat and ghreli levels increase which tells your body you want more food. She has many resources education individuals on the brain, lungs, hunger, sleep, and weight gain which all relate to not getting enough sleep. Her tags i find very useful which are sleep, fitness, apnea, read, and nutrition.
Tag Clouds: Yet another tool to clearly communicate the information on a blog.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found is MD. Arya M. Sharma whom is a Professor in Medicine and Chair in the Obesity Research and Management here at the University of Alberta. He uses his blog to help promote his knowledge and expertise in the area of obesity and healthy weight maintenance. His blog has a very science based approach but is written in language that could be understood by anyone without a science background. The blog contains many tools to keep it organized such as twitter, recent posts and a delicious tag cloud. The tags that are largest and reveal the most related posts are; bariatric surgery, diet, ingestive behavior, policy and weight management. These tags contribute to the clarity of the blog, except for one aspect. The tags are not consistent with lower or upper case lettering. Some tags are only lower case, while some begin with an upper case letter.
The next researcher I found to use delicious was Dr. Yoni Freedhoff through the blog Weighty Matters. He uses his blog to exploit the food industries health claim that are advertised without proper evidence. The blog is well organized with a twitter feed, facebook link, blog archive and a tag cloud. The largest tags include the labels; Big Food, Children, Research, Government and Food labeling. These tags are also mixed with upper and lower case lettering, making it more difficult to take a quick glance and pick out one tag. They are also all underlined, making it more difficult to differentiate each tag.
The first person I found on delicious was "delicious foody" who posts diet ideas, and nutritional research article links. Their links on delicious are very organized with focuses on 'healthy desserts' or 'healthy vacation preparation". Her(his) tags are extremely easy to navigate and specific. Tags include 'health food' and 'recipes', both of which are simple and get the point across. S/he has also has some great stacks that are organized so that you can access a large number of links pertaining to a specific topic.
ReplyDeleteThe second delicious tag cloud is from The first researcher I found using delicious was Jessica Maillet, who is a registered dietitian. The tag cloud on her blog is huge and full of tiny words. I didn't find it as effective of a tag cloud just because there were too many different tags. Some of the tags were of larger font, such as 'restaurants' and 'recipes'. All the tags are in lowercase letters, which isn't distracting. She tags a lot about gourmet and local foods.
I also struggled to find researchers on delicious but I did end up finding blogs online with tag clouds which gives pretty much the same idea.
ReplyDeleteThe first one I found was Janet Helm's blog called "Nutrition Unplugged". She is a RD and from the tag cloud, it is easy to see she focuses on food trends. She gives credible and helpful informaton on her blog which is easily accessible through her tag cloud. The words she chooses to tag are very specific to new food products, although this makes for many different tags within her cloud. It could be better organized if she stuck to more general words.
The second blog I found was from a dietician named Kristen. Her blog is called "Swanky Dietician" where she shares different recipes she's been learning (since she's learning to cook). Her tag cloud can be quite helpful if you're interested in a specific meal idea because she convieniently separated meals into tags such as breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sometimes she even focuses on a specific food but its not difficult to locate because she uses general words like "eggs", "smoothie" or "pizza". I find this very useful because she provides easy and healthy recipes that can be easily located through her tag cloud.
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ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found is Anna Hillman.Her tag is Photographer which would let us know her researches clearly.She created a project called "Amazingness" and the you could find her website for this project on Delicious.The Amazingness project is the main focus of her personal work. It is about nature in the urban environment, and the complex and subtle interaction between the two.She uses the photograph as the main means of communication.I appreciate her thoughts about use the photograph to record the amazing environment and planet.You know,every day the sky is different, seasons change, different flowers grow, buildings weather, shadows appear and disappear, rain drops splash, puddles dry up…there is always something new to enjoy.So I really like her ideas on how to memorize and call for the protection of our environment.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher I found is David Suzuki.The link is to his own formal website.I found that he created a foundation named"David Suzuki Foundation" to conserve our environment by providing science-based education, advocacy and policy work.Here are tags:environment,permaculture.network,eco,potentialpartners and permaculture.These tags are express what Suzuki research clearly and completely. His jobs are really necessary to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.
I had a difficult time finding researchers or professionals in my field who used delicious. I was able to find professionals who had similar tagging systems and organizational systems as delicious.
ReplyDeleteThe first professional I found was Dr. Eric Barchas. Dr. Barchas has a blog with a goal of education the public about animal health. He posts lots of information, including the latest research, tips on animal care and training, and he even answers any questions that the public has. He had numerous tags in the side bar, including adoption, animal health, training, cats, dogs, breeds, nutrition, kittens, puppies, and travel. The tags are listed very clearly, making it easy to find different categories to access different resources. This style of organization is clearly very academic and is not as visually varied as some of the examples in class.
The second professional I found was Dr. Jessica Vogelsang. Dr. Vogelsang is widely traveled and has worked at a variety of different veterinary practices. Her blog focuses on disseminating information to the general public. This information ranges from vaccinations to disease outbreaks to pet care. Her style of writing is far less formal than that of Dr. Barchas. Dr. Vogelsang has a tag cloud on her blog. Some of her tags include advice, birds, cats, Eukanuba, housekeeping, Iams, litterbox, Petfinder, dog, travel, treats, and working dogs. This tag cloud is very similar to those seen in class with a large emphasis on the size of different words. It is visually pleasing, but harder to find specific words than the tags by Dr. Barchas.
Today's class was yet another informative lecture. Although i have seen CV's before, but nothing more detailed as ones that i saw in class today. I do know that I do not have any publications or article etc yet, but the TA's clearly opened a new train of thoughts for me. Looking at their CV's have opened my eye for many things such as looking for volunteer position in labs, and becoming a member of an organization. These small step will keep me active, involved and therefore, hopefully one day, i will have a detailed CV like the ones shown in class today. I never made a CV because i did not knew what kind of information i should add, but today's lecture was helpful in that it gave me a sense of direction to work and gain experience. The other key point that I learned today was the different formatting techniques that is available to use while writing a CV, but as TA's mentioned, it has to be directed to the specific job that one wish to apply. Another point that OBI mentioned is that the sequence of information may change from job to job. I found this very informative as i didn't knew that one can change the order which impacts the importance of facts on the CV. The TA were very helpful in providing feedback during the discussion session, and I learned something new every time a new TA's shared their CV with the class, and I thank them for sharing such personal information with the class.
ReplyDeleteI agree with many students that being an undergrad student, we will not have as much detail on our CV as some TAs did, but we do have to keep in mind that our CV will grow with us as we age!
I had a really hard time finding researchers on delicious to follow but once I figured out how to do it I found a ton of people with agriculture and animal science blogs!
ReplyDeleteThe first one I found is wearedfa. They have a stack all about the Dairy Security Act of 2011 and have many links related to the Dairy industry. Their tagging is very helpful and I now know where to go if I'm ever having trouble finding the information I need on Dairy.
The other researcher/person I found was trufflemedia. They are a company that shares information about agriculture. They have a couple stacks about agriculture and education which is very important to the world today. They also have many links related to agriculture and their tags are really helpful because that way I can easily find the links that directly related to animals.
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ReplyDeleteDr Arya Sharma is the Chair of Obesity Research and Management at the University of Alberta. He has authored and co-authored over 250 research articles. His blog educates the public and other healthcare professionals about new obesity research. He tends to bookmark pages concerning bariatric surgery, weight management and obesity. His tags are sometimes redundant (ie: weight-loss industry, weight loss) and are not always consistent (ie: Physical Activity vs metabolism). However, his tags are still very useful in navigating his website.
Dr Ted Eytan is a family physician dedicated to empowering patients through online education. His research mainly focusses on the integration of social media/internet and healthcare. He mainly bookmarks topics that concern inequity in the US healthcare system, as well as social media and patient education. His tags are also sometimes redundant (ie: health2.0 and health2con), and do not follow a consistent pattern (ie: Leadership vs patientvoice). He seems to have too many tags, so it is kind of hard to navigate his website using these tags.
Finding researchers on food science on delicious was pretty difficult however I found some pretty interesting things.
ReplyDeleteWhile searching for "food science" in Delicious I found stack entitled Food Science by mindfireacadamy. Mindfireacademy bookmarks links to food science experiments and science behind particular foods, such as bread. The individual decided to emphasize the importance of fun, science and awareness. By sharing links to fun food science related experiments it boosts awareness to food science. The stack is like an advertisement to food science, attracting the curious to try and have fun learning about a topic shadowed by nutrition: food science! The individual also uses links to other blogs such as Kitchen Lore. The most recent blog post explains the science of the "Ultimate Roast" and mallard reactions that are occurring while roasting. There is a major emphasis on the experiments as the user has tagged most links as "recipes" and "science".
The other delicious account I found was by Foodsciencechef. Food Science Chef is actually a company that specializes product and beverage development services. They were established in 1979 and they have wealthy experience in the food industry. The links they share on delicious are actually the most recent links posted on their own company blog. Their blog features the news regarding food science, their involvement in the community, food safety news and latest research. From their blog posts you can easily keep track of developments in the food industry. This particle blog has taken full advantage of social media and marketing as they have accounts on Delicious, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace and Twitter. All their accounts are updated with their blog posts. How? They use yet another social media tool called Ping.fm, which allows them to update all social media outputs at the same time. Very cool! Food Science Chef has a good grasp on how to use social media and how to share and deliver their information.
I searched the blogs of many registered dietitians and it was difficult finding one that uses Delicious. Multiple blogs noted they had Twittter, Linkedin, Email, Flickr and Facebook. This made me aware that bloggers are broadening their communication scope-to attract a wide variety of people, through whatever mode people prefer.
ReplyDeleteEmma Stirling's blog, " The scoop on nutrition" right away caught my attention. She considers herself an "Accredited Practicing Dietitian" , which I assume is similar to a Registered Dietitian. Her blog is quite visually appealing and appears to have a wealth of information. She categorizes her articles based on the topic from "Eco Eats" to "Food Flash" to "Expert Examiner". On her blog she includes her recent tweets and a "tag" heading that includes the tag cloud, with emphasis on the words, Dietitian and Nutrition,...which gives a good summary about the content of her blog. Her tag cloud is very small and minimal. When reading one of her articles, I noticed she does include a "Save to Delicious" icon. Each article also includes a tag list at the bottom, with key words used. This tag list is not a tag cloud because all the font is the same size, therefore no emphasis is put on any words.
The second blog I found did not use delicious, but did make an interesting tag cloud. The blog is "Don't (White) Sugar-Coat It" by Elizabeth. She is currently enrolled in her Registered Dietetic Internship, so I found it interesting to read about her perspective as she is also a student. Her tag cloud is very large and is ordered with the large font at the top, and as you scroll down, the font gets smaller and smaller. Thus she has the words that were used the most at the top, thus there is some sort of "order" to her tag cloud. The emphasis on her site is "vegan, Boston and Nutrition". She also makes use of Twitter. Elizabeth also discusses her role as a Media Blogger at a recent Symposium she attended. Her job was to tweet and blog throughout the entire conference!
I really like the more creative kind of CVs like Loic Guillot's CV example. In class we were told that employers only look at a CV for about 30 seconds so the visual aspects are extremely important. The CV on the t-shirt is creative but I don't think it would be very practical in an interview situation, it might be a little awkward! I don't currently have a CV but if I made one today it would be quite simple as I don't have a lot of research or publishing experience so I think my resume sums up my qualifications pretty well for now.
ReplyDeleteIt was really hard to find some researcher's on delicious, but I finally found a couple:
ReplyDeletelondonnutritionist - Claudia Louch (Nutritionist based in London)
She has only about 10 links, but they are all related to nutrition aspects. However, they are not specific to current issues, or recipes but the nutrition area as a career. She has listed a link that explains the difference between a dietician and nutritionist, job descriptions, and different nutritionist society webpages. I think that this would be helpful to get more insight into a career as a nutritionist. Her tagging is very consistent: nutrition, health, food, diet. She uses single words, which make it easier to search and depending on the link she has more specifics such as education, London, video. I like the way she tags, it is simple and to the point and not overdone.
mwg142 - Meghan Telpner (Nutritionist and Holistic Lifestyle Consultant)
Meghan has over 700 links! She has a variety of links and not just pertaining to nutrition. However, most of hers are tagged as health, recipes, nutrition, holistic. She has a lot of interesting tips, articles and web pages. She actually has some links to blogs and writing! I found a lot of links fairly useful. Her tagging style is very different than Claudia's. She uses double worded tags and hers are much more specific. I like how specific her tags are but I think they would be harder to find when searching.
Finding nutrition researchers on Delicious was very difficult, and so here were a couple of users that I found interesting:
ReplyDeletezannestar- The importance of this user is that he makes finding gluten free recipes easy for those who have Celiac Disease. As the amount of people who are diagnosed with celiac is increasing, his stack is very useful and informative. He bookmarks lots of recipe links and his tagging style is very clear in that he tags the food item's name or the main ingredient in the recipe (e.g. chickpea)
deliciousfoody- The importance of this user is that provides information on nutrition, healthy eating, and health food. It summarizes articles in the news, lists healthy recipes, offers tips and personal feedback on healthy eating, and reports on nutritional research. The type of resources that the author bookmarks are recipes, nutrition resources (dairy consumption substitutes, and recent nutrition news). This author doesn't use any tags, thus her clarity/style cannot be determined.
I am so glad that here is a lesson about how to wrtie a CV. Before, I have no idea what it is. All I can do is a brief resume. And I thought that could be enough for my application until I see Jess's and TAs' CV. Those did impress me a lot!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many sections a CV contains, such as education, experience and publication etc. Furthermore, I am very surprised by every presented CV's quality. Each of them has so many to tell and show, like their teaching experience and various contribution to many activities or organizations. I am encouraged to catch up and attend more social events and learn from various ways of communication!
Such a useful and joyful course! Love it!
I also had trouble finding researchers. I found some sites that had some very interesting information about animal agriculture though. My first researcher/company called Dairy Management Inc., which basically contains links to other sites about new research in the dairy industry, policies and regulatory affairs, and even information on the benefits of drinking milk and dairy-based recipes. This is helpful not only for individuals interested in new and upcoming research, but also for people just looking for recipes containing dairy products.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher is jrutherfordmd, who selected his version of the top 20 agricultural links in his stack. These links look to have a lot of general information about all aspects of agriculture, from the history of agriculture to the latest in crop farming. I though that this person preferred to mostly tag sites based on the history of agriculture, rather than the scientific aspects of it.
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ReplyDeleteOne researcher that I found is Heather. She is a registered dietitian, who shares her cooking experiences, her interest in exercising and healthy receipts with her readers. She make use of her training stories accompany with a balance diet to spread healthy information to people. She did not use tag cloud, but only general tags under each blog post. Her tags are food, things I love, things that make me happy , balance, training, running, which is a bit broad and general. It is not specific enough to make her blog to stand out effectively. Although is general, but the words are clear, because there is space between each words. She includes sources such as world’s heaviest food. Her source is pretty reliable because it is linked to an official websites. Moreover, in her website, she set up a “categories” column, which make it easier for readers to search for articles. She had also linked to the blog that she is following, and provide twitter for people to contact her.
ReplyDeleteAnother researcher that I found is, Lauren Talbot. She is a certified clinical nutritionist as well as a vegetarian. She is mainly sharing her healthy cooking receipts to her readers. She invents new cooking method, replacing those oily and trans fat ingredient with some fat free and highly nutrient ingredients. In her blog, she used tagged clouds, which include major words such as vanilla, whole foods, acid, PH, avocado, beautiful skin. Her tags are quite clear and specific, because she tags the food name directly. However, it is quite difficult to see, because her tags are mixed with upper and lower case and the words are all squeezed together. She did not shows any resources in her blog. Moreover, she included a side bar that named “categories”, and organized her article alphabetically, which is convenient for readers to read. She connects her blogs to others’ blogs that had cooking receipts. This allow readers to approach more new cooking receipts!
She also provide a website for readers to contact her in person.
I too had a hard time finding credible sources using Delicious, however I did find some very interesting sites though it. Most of the links that I found were to blogs not to specific delicious pages. So I guess I will just share with you a couple of the ones that caught my attention.
ReplyDeleteThe first research page I found is called "Condition Research" it is a blog that focuses in on living a healthy lifestyle. There are many posts and links that cover information on fitness, diet and performance. The researcher makes use of a tag cloud which is written all in lower-case and is very easy to read. Some of the more popular tags are functional training, intermittent diet, and low carb.
The second blog site I found was Zoe Harcombe. She is an obesity researcher and the author of "The Harcombe Diet". Her goal in life is to reverse the obesity epidemic. So as you could imagine, her blog is all about obesity and diet. She did not have a tag cloud, but some of the tags on her link are nutrition, obesity, and weight.
It is difficult to find the researchers based on users’ names on delicious. However, I do find two individuals that collecting information related to some researches in my field.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found is called fullerbecker, he has bookmark several resources related to stevia which is a natural herb that can be used as sweetener. In the stack,he first introduce and explain us what is Stevia and why stevia can be used as a sweetener, and the most important, what’s the advantages of using stevia. and it really raise my interest ,because at first I thought stevia is a new kind sweetener, just like other sweeteners.But,after I read the latest news he has provided, I realized the significance of this natural sweetener which is no calories and can benefit millions of population that consume soft drinks.
The second research I found is even fascinating. The stack is built by fialkojm, who bookmarks many resources about the new application of food materials, the biofuel. She lists several example of biofuel from palnt, like algae which can use photosynthesis to produce an oil that have the similar molecule structure as petroleum products. More interesting, there is a coffee car which means the car is running by using coffee. The information she collected really open my mind about the usage of food. Not only can provide energy for our body, food can also be used as a sustainable fuel which I think is the future of energy crisis.
On the other hand, although both of the two researchers have many bookmarked resources, neither of them have tag cloud which I think can make their stack even better if they have one.
I had an extremely difficult time finding researchers to follow on Delicious and wished that we would have had some instruction on it because it took me 3 hours to find 2 sources that are semi- acceptable. I was unable to find specific researchers in my field however I found two bloggers that offer advice on nutritious diets and even provide links to healthy recipes that we should consider in our daily lives.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher that I chose to follow is called, "dbedry" he/she provided many links on how to eat healthy on a budget and to get the maximum amount of required nutrients in your daily diets. The main focus of this researcher was eating healthy on a budget and they provided many links to sites pertaining to this idea.
The second researcher that I chose to follow is called, "icarusalsoflew". This researcher provided many links also pertaining to health and nutrition. Their focus was on baking tips as well as creating nutritious summer drinks for you and your family to enjoy.
I had a hard time being able to decipher the importance of each researcher because they do not offer up a lot of information about themselves.
In regards to what we learned in class on Friday. I found the lecture to be fairly interesting as I had never heard of what a CV was and it could be extremely beneficial for me in the future. However I do not feel that It would be for my benefit to create a CV in the near future for the simple fact that I do not have enough experience to make any sort of CV credible. I feel that for someone at my education and work level it would be sufficient to simply hand in a resume. I will however be holding on to these lecture notes to use in the future once I build up my work experience and perhaps graduate from my program.
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Like most of you, I also had a hard time finding researchers in my field with Delicious accounts, or just even anyone in my field who uses Delicious. I did find two users on Delicious that have done a lot of tagging about food, recipes, nutrition and cooking.
ReplyDeleteThe first user I found was "greenqueen". I liked the mix of links that they provided based on being green, but also a lot about healthy eating and food. It was an interesting combination that many are interested in both of. Many of the tags and bookmarks are about vegetarian eating, tasty recipes, gluten free and environment. The one thing that I did not really like about the tagging style was that for the most part it was very general and hard to navigate because of that. They were mostly one word like blog or food. This made it harder for me to find specific information through their account. However I found their stack "Eat Better, Cleaner and Tastier!" very informative with a lot of great links!
The second user I found was "deliciousfoody". Their main focus seemed to be on healthy eating and health food recipes. This user bookmarks specific recipes the most from what I can see.Their links and stacks could be quite useful to someone who wanted to search healthier recipes with specific ingredients. They also had some pages based on specific nutritional information. The one thing that I really liked about this users tags was that they were specific! Some of their tags were: blackberries, dairy free, granola bars, breakfast. This made it easier for me to navigate all their links to find exactly what I wanted.
I found a researcher in my field of crop science in a round-about way using Delicious. Dr. Frank Mitloehner is connected to Delicious via the website www.trufflemedia.com. His research is broad and also covers the area of animal science, but one of his projects I found interesting was his work in sustainable agriculture. His study on "The Overarching Demand for Food and Implications for Resource Use and Ecosystems" is of great importance to every person and country in the world. Sustainable food production and land stewardship is paramount to maintaining population growth and health. Other types of research bookmarked include research on cows and climate change, and the environmental role of livestock agriculture. Dr Mitloehner's tagging style is thorough in regards to the way he presents his research. He includes tags such as "conference, opening general discussion, ag-related." I think he would do well to include tags which would link directly to his types of research.
ReplyDeleteAnother researcher/author I found using Delicious is John Maday. He conglomerated research on "Closing the Gap in Agricultural Production". Essentially, he is a science journalist. The article details a report on safe and accessible food for different areas of the world, and what agriculture advances are doing and have already done to remedy this. Tags include "swine, beef, dairy poultry, crops". I found these to be quite general when compared with the article content. Although general tags will yield more search results for viewers, someone who is specifically interested in the research presented would have a hard time locating this article/ author out of the many search results yielded.
To me, a CV is a comprehensive version of a resume. It's further reaching and more broad, and it essentially gives a much more detailed summary as the submitter, both academically and experience-wise. I think having a CV on hand is only pertinent if a person has done substantial publications and research. For an undergraduate student looking for a summer job, it is likely that a resume would suffice. However, after the student gained experience with these (possibly academic) summer jobs, then they may have the research/grounds to fill out a CV.
ReplyDeleteOne of the researchers I'm following is jodyy. She focuses mainly on issues regarding the environment, climate change and health issues. She's a frequent user with almost two thousand links, but her accurate and specific tagging methods allow refining a search of her content relatively easy. I find her an important researcher to follow because she provides links to a varied array of academic studies as well as newspaper articles and other blogs, giving a well rounded view of the issues she covers.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher I'm following is arnaucuesta. His research seems important because he covers both environmental and political issues, showing the problems arising between the two. He also incorporates news issues with journalistic articles pertaining to these two sides. I like some of his links tagged rather generally with environment, photography, and ecology but it was the stack he had that caught my eye. It was a very specific stack tagged "environmental news."
The first researcher I'm following is Kevinfirari. I'm not 100% sure he is a legitimate researcher, but they are not easy to find on delicious. I chose to follow him because he has a stack the has 20 links that have information about ring tailed lemurs that he used for his lemur research paper. The links are great, and I may be able to use this in the future if I do a paper on exotic animals.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find a person who calls themselves a researcher, but my second person I chose to follow is Sergray6. He focuses on posting helpful links for people who are looking to do research papers. His links are right on target with what future projects I'll come across will require. He also has multiple other stacks that aren't liked to animal health directly, but are science related. That information will also come in handy in my other courses. A great range of pertinent information!
Even with the tips I found it difficult to find researchers who used delicious, but I found some people to follow who had tagged interesting articles.
ReplyDelete“wearedfa” had tagged a whole stack of articles about the Dairy Security Act of 2011. This is an act in the USA to help protect farmers against cases when dairy prices drop and input prices skyrocket. She/he tagged a wide variety of interesting articles that both explained the act and provided opinions on the advantages and disadvantages. She/he included a variety of links to blogs, videos and newspaper articles, which provided multiple interesting views.
A second delicious profile I found was “researchoffice”. This delicious profile was interesting because of their wide variety of links. They had a comprehensive list of tags, with words from funding to science to food. Researchoffice is interesting because the many tags meant the links were well-organized and I could find information about not only animal health, but many other types of research currently in progress. I think this is useful, because although it is important to be knowledgeable in your field of expertise it is also useful to be knowledgeable about other goings on in the research world. This delicious profile makes it easy to find articles about all kinds of studies.
The first researcher that I found through delicious is Professor Marian Stamp Dawkins. She is a part of the Animal Behaviour Research Group from the University of Oxford. This researcher is very important to the animal health field as she leads research for a large group of individuals. This research group focusses on animal welfare, biomechanics of flight, silks, elephant tracking, mechanisms of navigation over familiar areas, collective animal behaviour, pheromones, and navigation through aquatic environments. Such research is important, as it can inform us of societies impact and interactions with animals. This researcher bookmarked fellow researchers and the history of her research group. The delicious tags used for this research group were
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The second researcher that I found through delicious is Professor Iain D. Couzin. This man researches evolved collective behaviour in animals, humans and insects at the University of Princeton. His work is important, because it reveals relations between human and animal behaviours, which could possibly lead to improved methods of animal production. He bookmarks references, media coverage and topics in the news. This researcher employs a tag cloud on his personal website as well as tags on delicious including: science, research, theory and animal behaviour.
I found another researcher’s blog that uses the tag cloud. The name of the blog is Peace, Love and Food and the dietitian that writes on it is Kara Lydon. Her philosophy is that food should be enjoyable, wholesome, and fun! She has many recipes that have a healthy twist to some favorite foods and that are really easy too. She has many links to other food and nutrition blogs, she also links to the other blog that I found which is interesting because it shows how the Dietitian community is linked through social media like blogs and tags. Her tag cloud is a little more clear than the tag cloud found on A Fete for Food because there are less tags and larger ones, so it is easy to see the different categories and how they are organized. Also, one of the biggest tags is chocolate which I really like!
ReplyDeleteAs I am not very familiar with the delicious search engine, I had trouble finding specific researchers related to nutrition and health. However, I found a mass amount of articles that interest me! I settled with using a Nutritionist as my first researcher, specifically focusing on an article discussing the importance of a healthy balanced breakfast. This is relevant in the sense that a good start to the day requires a healthy breakfast, something many individuals overlook. The second researcher I chose was the Dietitians of Canada link. It includes several interactive tools including EatTracker (which I have used) and a Recipe Analyzer. The style of tagging found in both of my choices is simple and to the point. The tag used in the Nutritionist’s article was Healthy Breakfast. The tags used for the Dietitians of Canada website were Health and Wellness. As we learned in class, tags should be simple and easily explain what the link is related to. Both of my choices support this idea.
ReplyDeleteI am in Nutrition and Food Science, so the 2 researchers I found on del.icio.us are in Nutrition-related field.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found is ajengm. He/She focuses mainly on individual food and their benefits. For example, coffee and weight loss, cucumber and beauty, etc. She provided many interesting links to those findings. She also has "Nutrition Zones" stack, which has 56 links that covers information about Health and Nutrition. Her recent bookmarked links have title and tag, which are easy to read. Her older links doesn't contain titles but the link to the website, which I think makes it difficult to know what it is about quickly.
The second researcher is josephletzelterinfo. He gives lots of links on various subjects, all of which are health-related. For each link he provided, there's a title, comment, and tag, which I think is very helpful. That way, I don't have to go through every link to find out its content.
Monica Reinagel has been called a “Nutrionista” in my field of Nutrition. She is a well experienced Dietitian, shares recipes and quick tips for staying healthy. Her information ranges from how to tweek your lifestyle to become more healthy, to discussing controversial topics and offering healthy recipes. She uses Delicious to link readers to her blog, podcast and her website. Monica uses simplistic tags that will lead anyone generally searching for “food” or “nutrition” advice to her sites. Health, nutrition, diabetes, obesity, food, diet, recipes are the majority of her tags.
ReplyDeleteMarion Nestle is a very famous name in the field of Food & Nutrition. She is a professor at NYU, author of many books and active participant in the Nutrition industry. She uses Delicious to link to her many studies, her Q&A site, and tips on what to eat and how to be healthy. She uses “nutrition” “food”, “nutrition”, “food safety” & “Marion-Nestle” as tags.
Hey So I kind of had a tough time trying to find researchers, mostly because I am still not sure how to use delicious lol. Well since I am in Animal Science, I decided to look for researchers looking at important diseases that affect animals and humans greatly. My first researcher is Australian virologist Adrian Gibbs. He has been a prime researcher about H1N1 which scared the world greatly in 2009. He also worked to find out how it may have originated. The tags for Adrian were . Staying on the topic of deadly infectious viruses I decided to look at a researcher who has studied avian influenza. After WW1 around 40 million people died worldwide from this "Spanish Flu". Obviously this research is very important because viruses are mutating and new diseases are emerging all the time. The best way to understand these new emerging disease is by learning more about these pandemics. Especially the fact that the avian flu attacks young healthy individuals. Lets not forget the over 150 million birds that died as well. The researcher is Dr. Francois Meslin. He works as a veterinarian in the WHO as the coordinator for strategy development and monitoring of zoonoses. The tags for Meslin were "Avian-flu, mp3, Kontrabande-research, and education". The tags for Gibbs reasearch were "swine_flu, and conspiracy".
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I had a hard time finding researchers involved in nutrition, but I was able to find some blogs created by registered dieticians that emphasize incorporating health and nutrition into everyday family life.
ReplyDeleteThe first blog I found on Delicious is made by Tram Le, a registered dietician from Texas. The main focus of her blog, "Nutrition to Kitchen," is to eat naturally food grown from the earth. She emphasizes family meals and the significance of putting love and effort into slow cooked healthy meals for your family and friends. She provides nutritious recipes on her blog that correlate with seasonal fruits and vegetables available at the time of posting.
Another Blog I found is called "Junk Food Science," created by a registered dietician Sandy Szwarc. In her blog, Sandy finds and discusses upcoming research and controversial political concerns and ideas. The blog is very interesting if you want to learn about some controversial debates happening in parliament. The blog is directed to those who have a scientific/nutrition background so the comments left arouse interesting discussion between peers.
As for class on Friday, I found that it to be very beneficial for the future. Personally, I did not know what a CV was beforehand and its was very interesting to see all the different examples. Building a CV at this time in my education would be quite difficult. I have little to no experience working or volunteering in my field or attending conferences. Knowing how important these things are is very eye opening though. I will definitely be working on building my experiences any way I can over the next year or so.
One Nutritionist I found was Claudia Louch who works out of London.
ReplyDeleteShe provides a few link but one of them being to her website that has a lot if information.Her site provides information on what a Nutritionist is to how diets work and much more. Her posted link give you an idea out what is practiced in the field, something beneficial to students thinking of going into nutrition. The tagging used by her is straight forward one word words, making a search very simple. By being simple she builds a foundation where she can add more information as you go along which is nice since I found it very difficult to find researchers using Delicious.
Another individual I found was Kelly Dorfman. She has link that are specific to children and adults which I find to be really useful. Each of these links also covers many topics and is full of information. Once again the tagging was simple in order for us to find, one word "words". I find her research useful for she also gets very scientific which is good for us students to understand better.
As for the CV we went over in class on Friday, I found some interesting ways to "spice up" a boring resume, for one thing I learn't is that you want to be memorable!
I found it quite difficult to find but I did follow people that specifically posted only relating to food/animal science, agriculture and safety. Since in Animal Science it was really difficult I found when researching "Animal" and "Science" because only silly links would appear. However, I followed jsireflib because they link to awesome articles and journals about government food safety and associations linked with food safety and nutrition and animals. I also followed fao_website because they link to Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations. The links are new whenever there is a new article on the website. They use tags such as, animal health, animal production, trade, food, agriculture and so much more.
ReplyDeleteFridays class was very useful, before it I had no idea what a CV was, and now I do. I learnt that a CV is pretty much a resume, but more. It outlines education, skills, research, awards, volunteering, professional affiliations, etc. The two researchers that I found on delicious were related to nutrition. The first one was "ajengm" who has a stack called Nutrition Zones which has links to many useful nutrition tips and information. The second researcher was "jtibbsjohnson", their stack is called Stay Healthy or Die Trying. This one contains links to different research, natural medicine, and nutrients such as omega 3. These links contained tags such as: nutrition, diet, fitness, health, dietitians, food, etc.
ReplyDeleteThe first resercher I found from Delicious named Sam Webb, his food business blog is quiet interested. It comprehensive coverage of the food industry's latest, breaking news and insights brought to you by just-food's leading network of international journalists.His newest article "PepsiCo rebuffs split speculation" represents that the trend of the food business market and the different attitude of Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo's chairman and CEO.It helps a food business managment major student builds up the sense of food markets.
ReplyDeleteThe second resercher I found named Keith Waldron, he is the leader of the sustainability of the food chain research team, who seeks to enhance the exploitation of food-chain residues and co-products. From the knowledge of his blog, this will be achieved by developing a greater understanding of how to disassemble plant structures into marketbale ingredients. It contributes to local initiates and the Sustaiable Agriculture and Land Use challenge.
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ReplyDeleteOddly enough, i couldn't find blogs of researchers in my field through delicious, but i was able to find a couple research articles that had tag clouds.
My first researcher is Benjamin Houlten who has been researching nitrogen fixation in tropical and temperate plants. He discovered that many tropical plants increase nitrogen levels way beyond necessary for their needs in order to make it easier to absorb potassium. Some of the things that were tagged were nitrogen_fixation, enzyme, legumes, and nature. Unfortunately, the article wasn't tagged very well and i also saw tags like global_warming, nitrogenase, and Carnegie_Institution.
My other researcher is Pol Kham Narie who has been looking into the effects of deforestation in Cambodia on the Giant Ibis, Cambodia's national bird. He found that the noise of equipment in nearby forests is enough to scare the birds out of sanctuaries, compounding the loss of habitat. The page was very well organized with links to share it on facebook, twitter, and other social media sites. While Pol's article had the same style of tag cloud as Benjamin's (with the most popular topics as the largest font) his was more organized and had less seemingly random tags.
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CV's seem like a great tool to use when professionally applying for a job, grant or research position. The lecture has equipped me with tools I'll need when I'm looking for a career and want to display my work and academic experience.
ReplyDeleteI followed Kenneth Baker on resource economics, which is related to my field. I used tags such as economics, resource economics, and environmental policy. He used easy to understand terminology on resource policy which I found very interesting.
I also followed Mark Burton in the same field. His links were similar to Kenneth's and covered a lot of topics in Resource economics. He covered some pretty controversial topics such as valuing finite environmental resources. He encouraged comments and discussion which grew my interest and knowledge on the subject
When I typed in Nutrition into the delicious website the first person I came across was Ricky Clark, who’s delicious ID is ricky145. Although, I don’t know if he is a researcher, his blog talks about the importance of selecting natural health supplements. He starts off with explaining how toxic the food, water and environment has become( added chemicals, hormones, organisms etc.). So, for this reason our bodies need natural supplements to detoxify. The only tags listed under his delicious ID are Nutrition tags. Overall, his purpose and research in his blog are clear and quite straightforward to follow.
ReplyDeleteThe second person who I came across and shares my interest in Nutrition is a nutritionist and holistic cook whose delicious ID is mscook. Her top tags include food and foodbc but the most interesting thing I found was her blog called Rooted Nutrition. Her blog basically explains how she got interested in nutrition and her goals of improving the everyday diet. She talks about the importance of a home cooked meal at the dinner table versus take out,freezer dinners and fast food lunches. Her blog contains tags such as back to school, beet salad, cabbage, healthy cooking classes and she even has videos on healthy eating on vodpod. I really look forward to following her great meal ideas and super healthy recipes!
The first researcher I found on delicious was in a stack called "Nutrition Zones" by ajengm. I found this particular stack very interesting as they talked about various different foods and their "magical powers" on peoples' health. For example, the one link on caffeine and potential weight loss, along with many more interesting links. The second researcher or actually group/organization I found the the Dietitians of Canada link. This brings you to the home page of the organization which has many useful tools for everyday people, dietitians, and even us students who are working towards such a career. There are many useful and helpful links on the page such as EATracker where you can track your daily food intake and exercise and even a link to find dietitians. Tags such as benefits, health, nutrition, wellness, food, diet, and career can be used to find these researchers.
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I'm had trouble finding researchers who used "delicious" specifically, but I found a couple of individuals who have blogs that incorporate tags to organize their posts and information.
ReplyDeleteMy first researcher is Alex Tiller (http://blog.alextiller.com/). He is an American farmer and an active member in the agricultural community. He tends to blog about current farming conditions, the problems arising from poor conditions (economics, pests, drought, ect.), new agricultural products, innovation, and equipment. His posts are important to me because he is employed in agribusiness, which is the field of work I am currently in. It is also important because he has travelled and seen agriculture from different parts of the world, which makes him a great universal resource for many different topics in agriculture. His blog posts are interesting and well written. Alex tags his posts generally with one word and broad topics, making navigation simple.
The second researcher I found was "Peter H", a scientist from Australia (http://abovecapricorn.blogspot.com/). Besides blogging about general agriculture news, he tends to focus a lot of posts on environmental concerns. His tips on using compost and other organic wastes is very important since "green" practice is becoming an important world concern and will keep growing in the future. His posts can encourage people in the agriculture industry to become more environmentally conscious. He tags his posts mainly with general terms, but many are tagged with very specific terms making the tag only applicable to one or two posts. This does not seem as effective as a general tag since you will not get many related posts grouped together.
As a nutrition major I had some difficulty finding researchers in my field with blogs. I was, however, able to find a couple of registered dietitians who provide education about healthy diet and lifestyle through a blog.
ReplyDeleteThe first individual I found is Cheryl Forberg RD (http://www.cherylforberg.com/blog). She provides a multitude of facts; everything from recipes to portion sizes to interviews. There are many tips to help improve an unhealthy lifestyle. Cheryl Forberg uses a tag cloud on her blog; it is clear and easy to follow. On delicious there are several health related tags linking to her blog.
The second dietitian I found was Katherine Isacks (http://isacksrd.com/?page_id=31). She blogs mostly about weight loss tips and nutritional advice to people leading busy lives. She does not employ a tag cloud on her blog, however, each individual blog post is tagged. Under each blog post she also provides a direct link to delicious for her post to be shared, along with several other social media links. This would be a very effective way to increase the number of her followers.
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ReplyDeleteSince it seems that I have been having the same troubles as everybody else in finding nutrition researchers on delicious, I have found a couple of dietitians whose blogs I really liked and used tag clouds in the way that as I understand, they should be used. The first person whose blog I looked at is a dietitian named Kristen (I couldn't find her last name) but who uses the alias "eatingRD". She talks about exercise and nutrition and has a widget with information about her bike rides on it. The eatingRD blog has a "research tidbit" section in which she talks briefly about a research topic and references the researcher by name at the bottom, which is really great. Most of the tagging used in this blog is for recipes and is a really good cloud with smaller and larger tags showing the relative popularity of the recipes. The second one I found was Cindy Williams a Dietitian from New Zealand. I really enjoyed her blog because it really showed how she incorporated nutrition into her everyday life. This was even shown in the tag cloud she has on her blog with nutrition and recipe tags punctuated with tags about sport and information about specific diseases. The cloud was also really clear showing which tags were more often used. This dietitian used a lot of videos from youtube for the less nutrition oriented subjects and uses photographs of her own finished dishes for the recipes. She also talks about using her husband (a doctor) as a reference for checking her posts and recipes for accuracy with regard to the health claims being made. However I would not necessarily rely on this since she does not link to a professional page or blog for him that professes his medical degree. Despite this, I would use her recipes but take her health claims with a pinch of salt unless I had heard them from other credible sources.
ReplyDeleteI also found it difficult to find reliable people on delicious..because anyone can put 'nutrition' or 'healthy living' 'exercise' ect as tags.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I found asokad's delicious who had tons of links with Mayo Clinic. Which is a non-profit research/ medical centre in the United States. It was really cool because the centre focuses on hard to treat diseases such as eating disorders. There are so many ed's that people don't know of. Binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, sports anorexia, over eating, ect. There were other bookmarks for different diets, but mostly for the mayo clinic and the different research the clinic is doing. The style of tagging she uses is by using popular words such as 'health' 'diet', which makes it easy for people to find..she has tons of tags..but not many links in each tag which I think I'd find it more useful to 'follow' someone who has tons of tags for a certain topic and expand from there.
The second person I found on delicious is aboutkidshealthhsc ... I found this person's links important because health is important from the second we're born. I think it's BEST to start being healthy as a child, it's when our bodies are growing and is often the time in our lives when we need the most nutrients. Our brains, and bodies are growing and we need to fuel them. They had TONS of bookmarks for children's health, podcasts which made it interesting to check out compared to others, as well as survey's and stats. They had over 1000 links which I found useful because then I could just look at all of their links rather than looking all over delicious. Once again common words were used for their tags.
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ReplyDeleteI found I am so lucky to find some researchers in my field through Delicious since I saw some of classmates had trouble to find researchers. The first stack I want to follow from the Delicious was SRJCLibraries, I found this guy shares a bunch of interesting resources that are associated with Environmental issues. Even he or she did not put tags for each resource, but he or she gives very clear comments for each resource, which are really help me to read or watch! I found all those resources are related to my field. I think I am going to keep following this guy.
ReplyDeleteThe second guy I decided to follow was shaanaga. I found this guy by searching “forestry marketing”, because I am in Forestry Business Management. I am really interested in the topic such as “forestry business” or “global forestry trading” and so on. Even this guy did not save such much links, I am still interested in some articles that saved by him or her.
This was-as everyone else previously stated- a tricky assignment, but interesting none-the-less because it shows us that delicious is another way that we will be able to connect to future employers and clientele.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I found was Sandy Szwark and she has a blog about obesity and breaks down the typical stereotypes about obesity and the types of people it affects. Her style reaches out and informs the public. The tagging styles is informative including the tag research.
The second researcher I found was Dr. Weil. His taggin style is simple and to the point. mostly with tags such as nutrition, health, food etc. I like his anti-inflammatory approach and the anti-inflammatory food pyramid link on his website. I would like to practice eating a balanced food pyramid such as that one. Less red meat and dairy, and increasing the amount of whole grains, nuts, and seeds. YUM! This food pyramid style is one that most people should adopt and love!
Mark Carney (Economist/Bank of Canada Governor) and Jim Flaherty (Minister of Finance)both are not delicious members, but I did find interesting tags including their work.
ReplyDeleteWith the world economy on the brink of another recession, Mark Carney is hard at work trying to help Canadians weather the storm. Most of the article which include his name are about how he is quickly modifying monetary policies. The articles are usually written by major newspapers such as the national post or the globe & mail because it is a top story currently
Jim Flaherty is basically the brains behind Canadian fiscal policy. Most of the articles he is mentioned in are concerning how he is caught in the political bickering of what means to stimulate the economy. Of course he prioritizes those of his own party. Again most of the articles are written by major media outlets so the stories are professional and hinted toward political influences.
I found it difficult to find actual researchers in nutrition on delicious, so I just ended up googling different registered dieticians to find a blog, and through there finding if they had a delicious stack with tags! The first one I found was Janet Helm, who is part of nutrition unplugged. She believes that nutrition should be embraced, and not feared. She also hopes to break the myths and misconceptions about food and nutrition. She used some really interesting tags like; restaurant, antioxidant, food trends, food safety, simplicity and American Dietetic Association. The second researcher I found was Katherine isacks, who is also a registered dietitian. She blogs about food choices, recipes and information about nutrition. Her tags included; milk, organic, price, and whole foods. Her research is important because it allows individuals to understand organic foods, what to look for and where to find it. Even though these 2 were not actual researchers in nutrition, they had a lot of knowledge about my field and information to share!
ReplyDeleteI have extrem interets in the study of relationship between food and nutrition, but it is very hard for me to find an actual dietitian who is using decilious to do the research.So I end up with finding some person who has research relate with food and nutrition on some degree. The first decilious user I find is called deliciousfoody. She is focusing on home made healthy food. She posted some links about home made dishes, soups, fruit salads ect. They are tagged as healthy, health food and recipe etc. I might say, she doesn't have a very clear tag, since there are various way to define a healthy food. For example, there are numerous tags named healthyfood or healthfood or healthy etc. It is very hard to categorize each of them. The second on I find on the decilious is who named rebeccafuller357. She saved some lianks of official Canada websites about dietitian and food guide. She believes a healthy life consists of healthy diet and regular exercise, such as jogging, yoga etc. She had some tag called running, health, canada, nutrition. I think this is a clear one since she seperates each field with different tages. Her research is very significant to all people who desire a healthy happy life! By the way, again! it is a great course for us to learn and practice on finding resource and needed information. Enjoy it and love ALES204!
ReplyDeleteAs it is hard to find reliable nutrition researchers on Delicious, I decide to search “celiac disease” and “gluten free diet”. With the new diagnostic available, celiac disease has arisen from 1 /10000 (1980) to around 1/100 (2008) and gluten free diet is within the top 10 food trend of 2010 food market. I found two awesome website.
ReplyDeleteFirst one is the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research and web link is http://www.celiaccenter.org/celiac/default.asp The center is dedicated to improve the quality life of patients with celiac disease by providing a multidisciplinary team to work together and develop individualized treatment plans for people with Celiac Disease. At same time, through ongoing research and clinical trials, center is learning the cause of the disease and trying to find a cure.
Another one is Canada Celiac Association http://celiac.ca/index.php On the website, it provide details of gluten free diet: food allowed; food avoid; food question; gluten free substitution. It also provides gluten free receipts and tips for cooking, eating outside, travelling, which in whole to help people adapt real gluten free life. The website also has special link for health professionals and include more details diagnosis, counseling and treatment for celiac disease. By reading all links make me more confident for future patient counseling.
I found it very hard to find researchers in my field of interest that use delicious. But I finally found one, veterinarian Dean Severidt. He is a veterinarian who uses his blog (www.drdeanseveridt.com, that has a delicious link) and his twitter (@DrDeanPetDoctor) to give tips to other veterinarians about how to run a successful clinic. He talks about things like the importance of customer service, how to be a leader, what separates clinics, and how to watch your inventory. He also has another blog that gives helpful tips to pet owners (http://petdoctorblog.com/). Here he talks about things like if pet insurance is worth it or not, dog worming essentials, and choosing a puppy. Profession blogs like Dr. Dean Severidt are very important. Average pet owners and professionals can search online and find imformation from a creditable person about issues that may be important to them. This is a great example of how social media can bring together people with common interests.
ReplyDeleteI found it pretty difficult to see what researchers were using delicious so i decided to go to my twitter and search up researchers that i was already following along with tags like health, food, nutrition and so on.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher in my field that i found was Chris Kendall who is a registered holistic nutritionist. He shares how a 100% raw food diet which means basically eating the food as it is without cooking it, can be healthy for you and help improve all aspects of your life. His bookmarkings on his blog focuses mostly on other foods and health that are related to what he talks about like organic products and fruits and vegetables. He doesnt have too many tags but the ones he puts up do relate to what he studies and talks about like: raw, food and diet.
The second researcher i found were twins that i have been following on twitter. They are known as the nutrition twins and they give advice on how to get your daily recommended intake and recipes for good meals. They not only talk about food but ways to get good exercise as well. The bookmarkings they have lead to recipes and media videos of them. They use tags like nutrition, nutrition videos and healthy.
As for fridays class i thought that a CV was actually a pretty cool way for you to represent yourself. It can make it so that you stand out and become memorable and really show off yourself. I don't think i will ahve a really good CV if i made one right now but the as i move along in life i feel it will get better. Also learning about a CV now really lets me know what i have to start doing like putting in more volunteer hours and attending conferences.
so, I did this assignment right away after class on friday and i am sure I posted my comment, but now it seems that it is gone! I was the first one to post the assignment. I don't know what to do! it took me so long! If you want me to re-do it please let me know because I don't want to lose marks, but I really don't have another hour to spare right now, I have a huge midterm in the morning and I don't understand what happened with this blog post! Arg!
ReplyDeleteI heard about CV before, but at that time I had no idea about what it is used for. After this class, I know that CV is a very important document to report what you have done to your employee. I hope in some day my CV can as full as yours.
ReplyDeleteI find two people through Delicious website. The first person I choose is feenixfiya. I found him because he shared the link about food bank. He favorite tags are food, recipe, media document and restaurants. The second person I choose is Carolrain. There are 40 tags on delicious, and 39 are recipe tags. The links she shared are about food health, and food combination which is very helpful in the field of food science.
Hi, after searching on delicious I found a couple people who have tagged websites that are related to my field. I could not find any specific researchers and I tried as many tag searches as possible including people on my twitter list.
ReplyDeleteMy first is rhonpoe who has created a stack related to home vegetable gardening. These sites provide great information about growing vegetables in your back yard. This is important for sustainability because a major source of pollution come from the transportation of food. If everybody grew some vegetables it would offset carbon emissions globally. They have used relevant tags such as gardening, vegetables, organic, tips, and howto to organize the links.
My second researcher is named kayell who has created a stack of links about horticulture and botany. This is important in my field of study because you never know when you will need to look up information on a specific cultivar of plant. This provides a vast source of links that are bound to answer almost any question you need. It would be impossible to memorize every single fact about every type of plant so this is a great way to organize this plethora of information. Tag that are linked to this are science, history, botany, images, reference. These tags are relevant but maybe could add something like plants, horticulture etc.
David Ellery
It was neat to see the various CV formats presented last class, including several creative and graphic templates. I also appreciated learning about the content of a CV. I didn't realize that listing attended conferences (for undergrad students) or professional memberships would be powerful pieces of information on a CV.
ReplyDeleteAs an Animal Health (Companion Animal) major, I had a hard time finding researchers in my field who use delicious blog. However, I did find some researchers who are using blogger when I searched on delicious.
ReplyDeleteThe first researcher I looked for it Stacey O’Brien (http://www.wesleytheowl.blogspot.com/), because I am reading her novel Wesley the Owl for one of my animal sciences. Stacey is an animal behaviorist, particularly focuses on Barn Owls. Not only did she write about barn owls, she also shares many interesting animal related information on her blog, such as Dogs can read, like Gorillas. Stacey uses twitter and Facebook as bookmarks; however, she doesn't use tags for her blog.
The second person I found is D. Thurmond, D.V.M (http://www.dog-food-blog.com/). I am not sure if he is a researcher or not, but he writes on Dog Food Blog, which provides news and trends in dog food industry. He categorizes his blog into different sections, such as dog food allergies, dog food regulations, and more. However, I will not rely on the information he shares on the blog, because there are no sign of scientific data or researches backing him up. Thurmond uses many bookmarks on his blog, for examples, Facebook, twitter, delicious, etc. He also has a dog food tag cloud on his blog, which I found useful to know the trend in current pet food industry.
For Friday's lecture, I learned that CV is a new way to present myself when applying for a job. I really like that idea to use a really creative way to give good impression for interviewers/reviewers. I also learned that we should always keep updating our CV, and keep track of our records, such as volunteer, conferences, etc.
First researcher i found was by the name of Ricky Clark. He talks a lot about health supplements and the right way to go about taking them. Things such as using supplements to make up for our unhealthy choices are not going to allow the body to reach its full potential. Another thing he talked about was that if and when using supplements its best to go with the natural treatments and combining them with a well balanced diet is going to benefit your health.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher i found was Rachel Campbell. Her article was based on finding nutritious foods that won't hurt your wallet or those on a budget. One of the tips that i found interesting that she says is cook from scratch and avoid convenience foods. Some examples of inexpensive foods that people can purchase at the grocery store are legumes(instead of meat for protein), oatmeal for finer, rice for carbs, and in season veges tend to be cheaper.
I couldn't find any Food scientists using delicious and it really isn't any surprise to me. Delicious is very outdated, the usefulness of it is very limited compared to other social networking sites. Lets face it if I want to find something I search google, it does a better job and faster. The best I could find is Katie williams and Emma Stirling. I had found them on twitter. Both experts are trying hard to spread proper dietary knowledge through out the world. Katie williams uses very simple tags like nutrition and healthy nutrition. Emma stirling uses dietitian, nutrition, and her name and her blog name as the main tags which helps with SEO. Her cloud is neat and tidy but not very helpful.
ReplyDeleteAs I am in Human Ecology and hoping to pursue a career in Public Relations, there aren't many researchers on Delicious in this field. So, I found two public relations/fashion bloggers and websites.
ReplyDeleteThe first is an article by William C. Heyman the
President and CEO of Heyman Associates Executive Research. The article is a research report on the 10 Patterns of Success in Public Relations. Some of the tags were Research, PR, and Public Relations. The tagging was slightly vague because the actual blog article discusses much more than just research, PR, and Public Relations. If I was Heyman I would have added the tags 'successful' and 'executives' to the tags to make it more specific.
The second is of Kelly Drennan of Fashion Takes Action. FTA has built a globally credible reputation through collaboration with several leading environmental and fashion industry organizations. FTA often delivers workshops, seminars and presentations on sustainable fashion and business to the fashion community, academia and the general public. This is where I will be placed in the spring for my practicum. Kelly used the tags 'fashion', 'ecofashion', 'ethical', 'kelly', and 'eco'. I believe that this is a great job of tagging and it makes finding her blog very simple.
I loved looking through these blogs that I found on Delicious! This is a great website!
The first researcher I found relating to my field is Cinzia Cozzolino who has her own blog, twitter, facebook accounts providing informative information about nutritional recipes, personal consultations,articles pertaining to living a healthy life, and much more. The only tag i saw was "blog" and I could not find any bookmarks or tags. The second researcher I found was Simla Somturk Wickless who is a certified health coach who also has her own website and twitter account. Unless I google searched for tags under delicioushealthblog.com i could not find any via delicious.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Friday's class I thought the different ways to do a CV was pretty interesting. I really enjoyed the example of the girl who had hers on her T-shirt. This makes me realize there are so many more ways to do a resume while being creative and making yourself stand out when applying for a job to grab the attention of future employers
1: Orna Vilazan, ND and Ilana Block, ND. They are both naturophatic doctors who started a naturophatic health center in Montreal, Quebec. Their goals are to help patience's body heal naturally by providing individualized treatment. They have bookmarked resources to naturopathic resources and hypnotheraphy. They used 4 tags: health, naturopath, naturopathy, homemopathy.
ReplyDelete2: Dr. Cory Reddish is also a naturopathic doctor at both California and Washington. She developed a detox program, essential cleanse. She joined the team at transcendentist to assist in developing the mercury detoxification program. She has bookmarked resources such as health information, materials for health, media, other practitioners, and forms for cleanse classes and consultations. She uses 4 tags: health, naturopathy, cancer, cleansing.
I feel the same way as other classmates do, it is really difficult to find nutrition researchers on Delicious. I have tried to search the people that I have been following in twitter on Delicious, and I have found one blog successfully. And finally, I can find two blogs related to nutrition.
ReplyDeleteThe first blog is written by Nancy Clark RD. She is a sports dietitian and author of the bestselling Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook. Her blog usually starts by asking a question, as to make readers to think whether they have such a problem thus to find solutions to solve it. In her blog, she has stated what we should concern before, during or after exercise. On the other hand, she has included lots of tags under each post and she is talking different topics each time. For tags example, there are nutrition, nutrition_education, restaurant, sports_nutrition_workshop, etc. All her tags are highly related to nutrition and sports and daily lifestyle. They are well-organized and it is easy to find information by clicking the tags. Moreover, she has a column called "by date", we can then read her blogs even it was written in year 2008.
Here is her blog:http://community.active.com/blogs/NancyClarkRD
The second blog is written by Nutrition Nerd. I have found her by typing "nutrition blog" on Delicious. The researcher uses blogspot to write her blog, just like what we use to write our own blog! The researcher is Master of Public Health in Preventive Nutrition and she is currently an MS/DPD student. In her blog, she shares ways to keep healthy and states how important to stay healthy. For example, she suggests healthy recipes like vegan pancakes to readers. Moreover, she gives tips to readers like when we eat, make half of our plate fruits and vegetables to stay healthy. For tag examples, there are tags called recipes and nutrition nerd alerts. She has also included word tags in passages, thus readers can link to other web pages to see more information.
Here is her blog:http://nutritionnerdalerts.blogspot.com/
The two researchers that I have found are specialized in nutrition and I think tags are really useful in organizing information or to give more information.
Unlike other web resources such as twitter, i find it very hard to find people on delicious. i did not find many people to choose from, however, through my search decided to follow Jessica Maillet. It is very hard to find credible sources on delecious though, so my options were very limitted. Jessica Maillet is a RD, certified trainer, and manager for "share our strengt's cooking matters." she emphasizes the importance of eating locally grown food, "wholesome" and affordable foods. On her blog, she is consistent with her belief of eating "wholesome" and local food. She also has other links to nutrition blogs, and supplements. Her tag cloud is very long, but basically she only uses two - three different fonts for her tag cloud. Looking at her tag cloud, the words that are big emphasized are: Restaurants, farmers market, Travel, CSA, Recipes, local food, giveaway, and a middle font is pizza, food for your whole life, and the smallest is zucchini. Although she has many tags, there are few that she emphasizes, and those tags are consistent with her belief of eating affordable food, locally etc. this is very effective because there is less tags that are important and it catches people's eye more than, the least important tags that are written in small fonts. Another key thing that makes this tagging effective it their she uses only 2-3 different fonts, so viewers are not confused with choosing a tag, even though it is hard to distinguish importance of her tag as there are so many. But since there are so many tags, it is wise to use few fonts to catch people's attention more.
ReplyDeleteShe also has lots of recipe links on her blog!
I am in conservation biology and could not find any relevant delicious users that seemed to be very credible on this subject. I did however find a couple of blogs that are quite good. The first is by Kyle Dickman. His blog explains how he attempts to save struggling animal populations from extinction by stopping poachers from illegally killing species. Dickman does a very good job of tagging absolutely everything he needed in order to create his blog posts from researchers who helped him, places he travelled conducting the research, and the tools he used. He does a very good job tagging in his blog but this makes for a very unorganized tag cloud, with many phrases that are of to similar size to properly distinguish. My second part is not a specific researcher but a tag cloud for the birdlife international blog. Birdlife international blogs about situations bird species around the world are in and how you can help them. The most interesting part of their website though is that you can look at a map of the world that shows where the contents of each blog post come from geographically. I found this exceptionally useful because I could find blog posts that are relevant to where I live and places I find interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy second Dietician that I researched is Nancy Clark. I found her through twitter search, not delicious search. Nancy Clark is a sport dietician. Her main focus is to help individual who exercise manage weight, food etc. I chose to follow her because her blogs are very interactive, and her tag cloud is not as buzy as Jessica Maillet. SHe has fewer tag cloud, and they are not in different fonts. this is also a very effective way as it is easy for people to find tags quickly instead of looking through the lists. She also has them in one font size which shows that the tags are equally important, thus she does not try to be biased on some information. The other key difference between Nancy's blog and Jessica's blog is that Nancy's blogs starts with a questions-hence she is very interactive with her readers. as well, on some of her blogs, she actually has a multiple type questions for the readers to do, which is used to get people's attention to read through her blogs and find the solutions for their specific needs.
ReplyDeletesome of the tags she uses are: nutrition, problem_drinking, nutrition_education, red_meat, sports_nutrition_workshop, seattle, and sports_drink.
Nancy Clark's blogs are listed by date, which is similar to Jessica Maillet's organization.
Overall, both Nancy Clark and Jessica Maillet are RD, and their blogs are very effective the way they are organized. Jessica Maillet used different fonts but very few (2-3) to organize her tag cloud because she had many
Tags, whereas, Nancy Clark only used on type of font for her tag cloud as she only had a few tags.
the following is her URL link:
http://community.active.com/blogs/NancyClarkRD
The first researcher I found on Delicious is called pangeaproyectos. I guess that the researcher is from Europe because he has bookmark several resources and websites related to European environment and agricultural resources. Some websites he has bookmark is in French so I guess he is from Europe. I am interested to know something about current European agricultural, forestry and energy issues so I followed his stacks. His tags include europa, rutas, europe, life, rural, empleo, energy and so on. Some are French some are English.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher I found is called samr. He has bookmark several resources and websites related to timber investment in North America. My major is Forest Business Management, so I am very interested in the current timber production and investment in North America, especially in Canada. His resources provide me a great deal of useful information in this field. Unfortunately, the researcher does not use any tags in his links. It makes his stack better if he can use some tags.
On Delicious I couldn't find access to a personal profile (for any researchers in my field or other fields that I tried) that might let me see all of this person's or their tagging style. Perhaps most people make their profile private...? I did find bookmarks linking to the blog pages of researchers I had already found for the Twitter project but these researchers appear to not be using Delicious (yet?)or choosing to keep their profile private for now. Or maybe they use an alias for this purpose.
ReplyDeleteSo instead I'm going to talk about the researchers I found through other media again since I've learned more about them since my last comment.
Dr. Brian Wansink is a researcher in food (consumer) psychology at Cornell University. He has written the book "Mindless Eating" in which he shares the most interesting and useful results of his research on the psychological cues that cause over-eating and how to avoid them. The results of his work are beneficial to the general public, to nutritionists in the field advising clients (although I wonder about the legality of a nutritionist dispensing advise they have learned from Dr. Wansink's book without the client ever having to buy Dr. Wansink's book. Perhaps nutritionists are only allowed to dispense little tantalizing bits from the book and advise the client to buy it? I wonder if the department of ALES should/could/would offer a course called "legal affairs") Back to Dr. Wansink's blog and bookmarks and tagging style: He doesn't use these elements on his web site.
Dr. Marion Nestle is a Professor of Nutrition, Food Science, Public Health, and Sociology at the NY University. On her blog (which she writes almost daily)at www.Foodpolitics.com she discusses some of the most recent social and political issues relating to the food industry with the objective of stimulating activists and lawmakers to be aware of the facts and to make the laws necessary to benefit the end-consumer (sometimes... most times to the expense of the food industry's profits). Links in her blogs lead to research findings on such things as whether fruits and vegetables (in the U.S.)are really more expensive than junk food or whether this is just a perception. She also brings attention to issues such as the struggle to keep junk food vending machines out of schools and food marketing to kids and what the lawmakers can/should be doing to help fight the growing obesity pandemic. About Dr. Nestle's bookmarks: On her web site she calls these "Links". They are an alphabetically arranged list of food issues related web sites such as "Agriculture law" and "Local Food Guides" as well as links to the blogs of other dedicated public health advocates. About Dr. Nestle's tag cloud: Her web site features one and I'm so glad that now I know what this is and why some words are bigger. Her tag cloud is the way Dr. Laccetti said they are: Non-hierarchial, just words and phrases that best capture the main issue addressed in each blog, such as "Sugar", "McDonald's" or "Junk food". Right now some of the biggest issues of concern to her viewers appears to be "Genetically Modified", "Marketing to Kids", "Health-claims", and "Obesity". Hardly anyone of her visitors is thinking about "MSG" or "Mars" anymore. Not the planet, the chocolate bar ;)
I found that majority of the registered dieticians I find on twitter do have blogs but only a few actually use delicious clouds.
ReplyDeleteFirst RD I found is Janet Helm, who happens to be a media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. She has made a couple of tv appearances in Good Morning America, CNN and ABC News. In her blog (http://nutritionunplugged.com), she clearly mentioned that her goal is to let her readers know of food trends and how she can help them distinguish between nutritional science and nutritional myths. I also notice that her blog posts consist of pictures of food brands I never even heard before and she would explain how healthy (or not) they are. The type of articles/blogs she bookmarks are food blogs and professional blogs like hers busting nutrition myths. In fact the most popular tag on her tag cloud is food trends!
Another RD I found is Cheryl Forberg, who is also involved in television media. She is an award-winning chef, author and a nutritionist for "The Biggest Loser". I find that her blogposts (http://www.cherylforberg.com/blog) are easy to read because she tries to explain measurements/numbers and how it relates to being healthy in the simplest manner. Unlike Janet Helm, she doesn't have links to resources but she does have links to her books. Her cloud tag has mostly got to do with her work (ex. biggest loser & books), and exercise.
As I was looking through these successful dieticians' blogs, I actually want to read their CVs! See, with CVs they already have something to add on the very top. If I were Janet and Cheryl, I would immediately talk about my appearances on tv and how I used my expertise in sharing health related facts. With an ordinary resume, I have to keep everything short eventhough I am as specific as I can be. I think this summer, I should let employers know that I also have a CV besides a paper resume!
Naomi Porciuncula
I am still not very clear about what can I do with Delicious.I search in Delicious with key words agriculture but I could not find any researcher in my field .Finally I found one article "Food Is The New Frontier In Green Tech" (http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/ali-partovi-fix-food/) .I have to say the video is really eye catching.It shows the importance of food in our life wiht the increasing of population.Then I tried typing more tags to discribe what I want to find.Then I found out the more details I used the closer topic I could find.I guess this is why these kinds of websites are so popular.I didn`t find any researcher in my field by using delicious but I got known how to use it to find links on the topics in my field.
ReplyDeleteThe first blog i found was by Jack Norris, a Registered Dietitian. His blog is strictly to help those whom are vegan, or those looking into converting into a vegan. Its important to my studies because it helps advocate information to me about what vegans might be missing in their diets, or problems with supplementations. The researcher bookmarks scientific resources to back up his blog entries, making his work very accountable. He tags his blog simply by putting each blog under a certain category or group; making it look simple, professional and very general. His tag cloud is neatly formed in a scroll-out box, making readers find their topic of interest easily.
ReplyDeleteThe next blogger is Katherine Hobson. She primarily blogs about health, food outbreaks, studies/research and food related topics. She is a daily blogger that constantly attracts readers with her professionalism in blogging and stories that may interest the healthy conscious readers. She does a great job tagging in the blog by adding them in a well noticeable area; on the left hand side her abstracts/preview of posts. Her tags are very professionally attractive, having them all the same font, colour, upper-cased lettering & on topic of her article. Readers are able to find specific topics easily using her search engine.
It is really a hard time for me to find two researchers in the field of agribusiness. I spent a lot time on it, and find two researchers. The first researcher I found is Alton Brown. He is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He wrote and published several books on cookery. He is the host of the Food Network television show. And he is main commentator on Iron Chief America. The reason why I choose him is that I think he is successful in creating his own business. I think students who studies food production and agricultural stuffs should know about him. He has his own website. The link is http://altonbrown.com. In his website and blog, he shares a lot resources related to cooking. He teaches people cooking techniques. I checked the homepage of Food Network. People can find information about recipe and cooking. Also, he give some suggestions to help people make healthy food choices in this website. I think he is good at communicating with his audiences. He feels happy to share resources to the public. When I check delicious, I find that many people tag alton. That’s funny. People love his shows and his books.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher I find is Boonsri Dickinson. She is a ultimedia journalist for SmartPlanet and CNET. She has Facebook and Twitter either. I already added her. She also uses these two tools to share resources to the public. Everyone can check the information she shares. She shares information about Smart planet. In the homepage of smart planet, we can read some news related to food market.
It is really a hard time for me to find two researchers in the field of agribusiness. I spent a lot time on it, and find two researchers. The first researcher I found is Alton Brown. He is an American television personality, author, actor, and cinematographer. He wrote and published several books on cookery. He is the host of the Food Network television show. And he is main commentator on Iron Chief America. The reason why I choose him is that I think he is successful in creating his own business. I think students who studies food production and agricultural stuffs should know about him. He has his own website. The link is http://altonbrown.com. In his website and blog, he shares a lot resources related to cooking. He teaches people cooking techniques. I checked the homepage of Food Network. People can find information about recipe and cooking. Also, he give some suggestions to help people make healthy food choices in this website. I think he is good at communicating with his audiences. He feels happy to share resources to the public. His tags are about restaurant, recipe, cooking techniques. When I check delicious, I find that many people tag alton. That’s funny. People love his shows and his books.
ReplyDeleteThe second researcher I find is Boonsri Dickinson. She is a ultimedia journalist for SmartPlanet and CNET. She has Facebook and Twitter either. I already added her. She also uses these two tools to share resources to the public. Everyone can check the information she shares. She shares information about Smart planet. In the homepage of smart planet, we can read some news related to food market. Her tag is about smart planet.
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ReplyDeleteNot being too sure about what to search for in Delicious, I opted to looking at the websites of the 5 researchers that I follow on Twitter and look for tags under their blog posts.
ReplyDeleteI found on The Business of Fashion blog an interesting article about the famous streetstyle blogger, The Sartorialist. The author of the article tagged the article with "Scott Schuman, The Business of Blogging and The Sartorialist". Tagging is definitely a great way to get people to find your article by simply searching for key words. The Business of Fashion blog is important to me because it keeps me in the know of all the breaking news in the fashion world, which is essential for a fashion student like myself.
Next, as I looked through the Flare.com website, I noticed that if you clicked on an article there was a Tag list on the right sidebar of the website. In the Fashion section, the most popular tag appeared to be "Steal her style" as it was written in the largest font size. Clicking on it, enabled me to see all the articles with the "Steal her style" tag in them. How great is that! Flare isn't one researcher but I believe that looking at photos and reading articles in fashion magazines are two of the best ways to learn the tricks of the trade. Now that I have a Delicious account, I can save all the articles that I link without cluttering my bookmarks bar on my computer AND I can look at the articles even when I don't have my computer! Amazing!
I saved both of these articles on my Delcious account, which you can find here: http://delicious.com/jdeebo
To be honest, this process of looking for "researchers" that utilize Delicious left me feeling rather insatiable. I used quotations for researchers because I have no idea if these people are really researchers or not.
ReplyDeleteNow, on to the ones I found. The first person, as with many other students, is deliciousfoody. She seems to be the most active in finding articles for others to follow and it's not just stuff she reads and posts, rather it's stuff she has personal experience with (cooking). There are many recipes for healthy meals including some for children. Most of the links are related to salads, fruits, veggies, or fish. No red meats or chicken. Perhaps a lacto-ovo vegetarian or a pescetarian. Some tags relating to the profile are: health, healthy, food, or recipe.
Second user I found of relation to nutrition was iamveggieman. The name alone does not assure me of a researcher but neither did anyone else I found. This user provides links to information about vegetarian diets. It's a blog about nutrition, healthy eating, and health food providing news, tips, and recipes. Related tags include "health food".
Friday's class on CVs was pretty interesting, especially on the creative takes on them.
ReplyDeleteFinding people with blogs using delicious tags is hard! One of the people I found was a man who goes by KC and runs a dog blog site. Although he is not a researcher, I believe he is important because he provides the public issues regarding animal welfare. He provides informative articles and blogs with regards to animal abuse, welfare and misconceptions about certain animals. The tags he has on his blog are neatly placed to the left and have listings such as animal abuse, animal shelter, fear mongering, spaying/neutering. As shown in class on tag clouds, some tags were larger and in bolder fonts than others: one being media irresponsibility.
The second individual I found is a veterinarian named Sophia Yin. I believe she is important because she provides articles, professional blogs and helpful advice in regards to animal behaviour and medicine. The tags are neatly categorized and include subjects such as animals, behaviour, medical and other. The tag cloud is simple and organized.
At first I was very clueless about how to use delicious, but after a few tutorials I realized it was very simple. Through the class declious I was able to find some researchers such as Al Gore who is a very active environmentalist and a past vice-president. I also found Environics Research group who base in Canada and offers research resources. I used some key words that are relevant to my area of study such as "Environment" and "conservation". I realized that the the specific community I searched is very limited. However, I still find it difficult to find indivduals alone with these keywords.
ReplyDeleteI found the Jane Goodall Institute on Delicious.
ReplyDeleteHer work is incredibly important to the preservation of Great Apes. She and her team teach local communities how to live sustainably so that the ape habitat can be preserved.
There were not too many resources bookmarked because this was the institutes page listing their mission, projects, newsletter, ect. One post however did link to Adrienne Bermingham and One Million Hours Of Service. They both contributed to Goodall's research.
The tagging was clear: chimpanzee, jane_goodall, africa, JGI. They all had to do with her work. There wer not any random tags that didn't make sense.
I also found Ducks Unlimited.
They work on the conservation of wetlands and therefore wildlife all across Canada. Their work is important to the natural replenishment of groundwater, absorbing floodwater, and filtering surface water.
They had many resources bookmarked under a heading titled Find out more about DUC Alberta programs.
Some of the good tags were wetlands, waterfowl, ducksunlimited. However there were tags that didn't make much sense such as science7, ID, unemployment.
Overall both researchers had a lot of great information about their work.
Finding two dieticians that used twitter was difficult but I did search many dieticians that used blogs, twitter, facebook, and other social networking things to promote their image, business, or information about things like research and news in the health field. The two dieticians I chose are Teresa Wagner and Eve Kecskes.
ReplyDeleteTeresa Wagner is a dietician and is part of many health societies such as the Alberta Dietetic Association, Texas Dietetic Association, Dallas Dietetic Association and the Nutrition Education for Children Division of the Society for Nutrition Education. She does a lot of work with kids in her field as well. Her tag cloud is quite large, and some of the largest contributing members on it include child nutrition, and lactose intolerance. Also on her blog are the profiles of a few of her colleagues in the field. It is by using these social networks that she can stay up to date with the information in the field of nutrition.
The next person that I chose was Eve Kecskes, another registered dietician. Eve posts a lot of recipes to inspire healthy living on both her blog and her twitter account. Eve has her own private practice and strives to allow people to feel better about their health, which is one of the main reasons I chose to get into this field as well. Eve does not have a tag cloud on her blog, but I wanted to mention her because she has something very similar. Instead of a tag cloud she simply has a list of her tags with the number of times tagged beside each tag. This is the same general format as a tag cloud but as you can see the information is just given to us in another format. On her tag list are tags such as recipes and pregnancy, as some of her practice also includes providing pregnant woman with the information that they need. Her way of displaying her tags is very similar to a tag cloud and adds substantially to her online profile as it allows visitors to her site to easy access the information that they are looking for.
I've found it very difficult to find a researcher within my field of interests that have delicious tag clouds, let alone a blog! I find that most people that have blogs don't have delicious tag clouds, and that most blogs are run by organizations not individual researchers.
ReplyDeleteMyrmecos: Alex Wild. He is a researcher specializing in entomology and their evolutionary relationships. It's obvious that with entomology, but more so parasitology, that there is not only food-health safety concerns but concerns with animal agriculture as well. He describes the relationships that insects have developed within animal biology and pesticide controls. His blog is easy to navigate because he has tag clouds, recent comments and recent posts, allowing you to quickly find what your looking for.
Terry Etherton: Researches endocrine regulation of animal growth and nutrient metabolism. His blog is not only about his research but also about biotechnology and the upcoming advances this field brings. He has a general overview of all aspects of agricultural sciences and how they relate as new methods of (a) raising livestock or (b) growing crops - change over time. His blog is archived as lists by both date and category. Not as easy to native as the first but you can still locate the information you'd like.
This was an interesting one for me. There were a couples of routes, that could have been taken (as seen by some of the posts above), But the two "researchers" I chose, are not researchers in the traditional sense of things, but instead one is a person who has farmed all of his life and is a part of many different agricultural groups, while the other is a family of 3 who live in Ontario.
ReplyDeleteThe First "researcher" I chose is Alex Tiller. He grew up in Clark county Ohio, an area in which his family still owns farmland (They farm corn and Beans). Alex is a member of The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers as well as being an agribusiness author/blogger. He writes about everything; from commercial farming to farm economics/farm policy. This is a "little man" who dreams big and uses his background (obtained through growing up on a farm) to help other people. He does employ a tagging system, that is somewhat similar to delicious (I'm not sure exactly what it is), but it is very clear in what the links are and it is very easy to navigate. He has many different tags on his page, some of which can help you towards getting a career in farming/agriculture. While others lead to information that may be beneficial to another farmer, or perhaps just interesting to anyone who would read it. You can read his blog at: http://blog.alextiller.com/
The second Researcher I found is Little City Farm. This obviously is not an individual but a group of people who describe themselves as: "an urban homesteading family of three trying to live simply and sustainably in Kitchener, a mid-sized city in southwestern Ontario." These people (Karen&Greg and Maya) use the principles of permaculture as their guide on their 1/3 acre lot inside the city of Kitchener, where they have lived for the past 12 years. Their Blog contains great Farmhouse kitchen recipes, ranging from; Apple Sauce to Zucchini Spice Cupcakes. They also have a list of Homemade Herbal Remedies including; Herbal Sunscreen and Sage & Horehound cough syrup. For a person who is a little more practical they also have a few links under do-it-yourself homesteading that includes; how to build a root cellar as well as how to make strawberry wine. They do employ a tagging system on this page that links to many different topics, some of which seem quite interesting to me (Such as the 100-mile diet and urban agriculture). If you are not satisfied with the great, and easily found, information from the tag section; there is also a Farmhouse Bookshelf section with a selection of books that range from; Fiction/Non-Fiction novels to books for good diets and recipes. The blog can be found at: http://littlecityfarm.blogspot.com/. There is also a more intensive website, which can be found at: http://www.littlecityfarm.ca/. I plan to take advantage of this website and blog in the near future, not just for recipes for delicious food, but for was that I can use the urban environment to my advantage in the Future.
I found it difficult to find nutrition researchers that use Delicious. I did, however, manage to find two.
ReplyDeleteThe first person I stumbled across is Nancy Clark, who is not only a registered dietitian (RD)but also a board certified specialist in sports dietetics (CSSD). Her work is based primarily in sports nutrition. She provides information and tips to athletes trying to achieve their fitness goals. She also channels her expertise to individuals trying to achieve weight-loss goals. She offers reliable and healthy nutritional help to all her clients. In regards to her tag cloud, her tags are specific and all pertain to health and nutrition. Some of which include "weight", "sports nutrition", and "recovery".
The other person I came across, Nutritious Foody, is not actually a nutrition researcher. However, they had many links on Delicious to topics in my field of study. Most of these links are to simple, healthy and nutritious recipes that can sometimes be difficult to find on the web. The tags that Nutritious Foody uses are really helpful for finding specific recipes. They categorize links into subjects such as "fruits", "dairy free", and "pasta".
ReplyDeleteI was unabke to find anyine in my field who uses delicious (although i found many research papers and other resoursces) and have therefore turned to finding groups that have delicious links on their blog page. Since it was not explaided how to look at clouds (and in general perform the tasks you ask of us, something that im sad to say is quite common) i have no idea how to do this and will perform this task to the best of my abilityies and just tell you what the groups are about.
ReplyDeleteThe morris animal foundation provieds up to date information to vets by havinga vet news blog. they have things like a vet honour role, then steos in research and new developments. I dont know how a clod works so i will describe the style of the page, It looks like this foundation is very conscious of the efforts that both the vets and the technichans and update their page with the new advances and the ideas that they come up with.
the other page with a delicious link that i found is pet connection which is geared towards the pet owner more then a researcher but they turn the relevant research into a consumer friendly general version that everyone can understand this is not exactly what the homework askes for but i have never used delicious before nad have no idea how to use it therefore i found pages that had a delicious link on their bloggs and had to go form there. :(
My first dietitian is Practical nutrition, She posts lots of information about healthy foods, when to choose organic and lots of other interesting nutrition facts. About where she gets her blog information and where to read more about it. The tags that are most popular for her are recipes, healthier, vegetables and appetizer. She has a good size tag cloud with no similar words which mags it an look good and easy to follow. The second dietitian I found is Cheryl Forberg. She is the RD for Thhe Biggest Loser. She has lots of information on what to eat and other nutrition experts. Also books that are good to read. Her tag cloud is kind of small and spaced out, not enough words to be really effective. It has alot about food loss and loser so its repetitive. Has alot of saves about the biggest loser.
ReplyDeleteFound it really hard to find people using delicious. Not many people do.
While it was very difficult to find any actual dietetic researchers on Delicious that had active accounts I did find one researcher and another page which had many informative links about nutrition.
ReplyDeletedeliciousfoody provides readers with a variety of articles pertaining on how to eat every day healthier with scientific information about a variety of products as well as healthy recipes. The tags pertaining to this site included nutrition, healthy and better_eating all of which were applicable to the site.
The next person I found on Delicious was Andrewfk who does research on palliative nutrition and medicine. This is important as his research can make the last days of the terminally ill as pleasant as possible. He bookmarks a variety of nutrition related articles including nutrition and running, other articles on pallliative nutrition and on research on pain. His tag cloud includes words such as research, Palliative_Care and health, all of which are very applicable to his studies and allow the reader who is looking for such a topic to quickly find his delicious account.
It is such a great idea to create a CV using non traditional means i.e. using pictures, graphs or colors. It is definitely a way to make sure that you CV stands out in comparison to your competitors.What I am concerned about is that as a young adult, do I have enough experiences to really make a CV look noticeably different from a resume, I fear my lack of experience in comparison to older candidates may make me look less desirable to the employer
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of a CV because it gives the individual an opportunity to be more creative than with a regular resume. Resumes tend to have a more structured outline and focuses on skills and employment history, where a CV allows for an individual to add more of their accomplishments and creativity.
ReplyDeleteI had some MAJOR issues connecting to Delicious, but i found some researchers of interest who had blogs themselves.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.petmd.com/blogs/fullyvetted
http://catvetclinic.blogspot.com/
These research blogs are important to allow people to find information on services and helpful hints in veterinary issues.
* Sorry but my computer at home cant deal with our blog and crashes but I did get these done this weekend
ReplyDeleteThe first research company I found in my field is Alltech. This company was the first company to develop the nutrigenomics concept for animals, researching the effect of diet on animal health. This work is important because it will help advance the production of animal products to aid in future sustainability, animal health and possibly advance animal products. The company uses the delicious tags: health, marketing, nutrition, zoology. Each tag represents the company well, but I think more tags could be used in the area of animal science and nutrition because it is such a big aspect of the company.
Secondly, I looked at Prof. Iain Couzin from Princeton University. His research incorporates animals behaviours and the evolution of such. This work addresses the relationships, connections and similarities between animal and human behaviours. This is important because information in this area could improve animal husbandry and production. Prof. Couzin is very active and employs a tag cloud on his website and delicious tags such as science, research, technology and animal behaviour. He also bookmarks references to studies, media coverages and news releases.
So, like most people who have posted, I had trouble finding researchers on delicious but I did find some who had links to that site so....
ReplyDeletefeddou_lutra: posted an article on findings in horse colour genetics, specifically the dun colour. This field of study is important because demand of horses can largely be based on colour, so a successful horse breeder in these areas need to have knowledge on how these genes are inherited in order to produce what people are looking for. The popular tags for this article include equine science, horse breeding, and horses in the news.
A similar post was done by the Appaloosa Project: This is a group of researchers who are trying to isolate the gene(s) responsible for giving the "spotted horse" its spots. Again the appaloosa breed is a popular one, so producers would have a better time of providing this breed of horse if more was known about the genes that led to its desired coat. Related tags: spotted horse, appaloosa, and horse colour genetics.
It is really hard to find two researchers in my field who has a tag or on delicious. I was not able to find anyone but I found some articles in google.
ReplyDelete1.Edith Abbott: Edith Abbott, born in 1876, died 1957, took a Master’s degree in social work and a PhD in economics, using her degree to teach economics at Wellesley College. She helped establish the Cook County Bureau of Public Welfare in 1926 and helped draft the Social Security Act in 1935. Abbott was also a confidant and consultant to Harry Hopkins, who was an adviser for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Abbott was also the President of the National Conference of Social Work.
2.John B. Turner: John Turner, born 1922, died 2009, was a highly influential teacher, administrator, writer, scholar, and international authority on the field of social work. He was a prolific writer, with many published articles and several books, and served as the President of the National Conference of Social Work. His overall organizational and professional achievements are simply too numerous to mention here.
Jack Norris is an RD who writes a blog for Vegan's or those who have plant-based diets. His posts are for everyone though - they contain a variety of useful information for the everyday person for their health and diet. He bookmarks links for useful vegan tips and other papers. His tags include nutrition, soy, vegan, and health. His posts are of strong clarity and very easy to read.
ReplyDeleteDanielle Omar is an RD who is a wellness educator. Her blog focuses on helping people with their weightloss/health program by giving good tips and motivation. She sells products, and also offers her services to others. The types of resources she bookmarks are links for her local community on cooking classes, farmers markets, yoga practices, etc. The types of tags she uses on Delicious are nutritionist, media-rd, health.
I find Delicious difficult to find individual researches on, and in general just confusing to use.
Finding researchers on delicious were quite difficult but I found these:
ReplyDelete1) Pokabrain- This user focuses on a particular type of diet called the Prasouda diet. It is within fairly new research, and it doesn't seem to be one of those "extreme", no-carbs diets.
2)cncsfocusaresa- This user seems to do a lot of research on community nutrition, and mostly focuses on the older generation. This is very important because of increased needs for a lot of vitamins and minerals as an elderly person.
Finding researchers took some time but I did find two:
ReplyDeleteBrian Cox: He's doing lots of great research into physics and proton detection, this isn't in my field of study but I find it really interesting. He mostly bookmarks other universities and professors as well as some physics books/resources and physics articles. His tagging is fairly well done and mostly revolves around physics terms like protons and that big molecule collider.
David Shiffman: Does research and science popularization around marine biology (normally sharks). He mostly bookmarks other marine life preservation organizations and some news paper articles about marine life. He tags his posts quite well and gives a pretty good array of terms that describe his posts main points quite well.
Two researchers on delicious I found were Jessica Maillet and Nancy Clark who are both registered Dieticians.
ReplyDeleteJessica Maillet is also a personal trainer and her blog educates people on the importance of nutrition and locally grown food. Locally grown food is important to her because it supports and improves the community. Her bookmarks include articles she has written as well as those which have inspired her or hat she thought would be helpful to her readers. Her world cloud holds an emphasis on local, and recipies, as well as travel and farmers market. These tags are very specific but are cluttered because there are so many.
Nancy Clark also specializes in sports nutrition. She is the author of Nancy Clark's Sports and Nutrition Guide Book. Her main concerns are about exercise and nutrition. Her tags are much more organized specific and related to each topic. Her posts are organized by date which also makes her topics easy to find.
I also had a very hard time using delicious to find researchers in nutrition. However, I did come across links to some blogs that focus on nutrition.
ReplyDeleteThe first link is dietitianontherun.com. The tags pertaining to this link were quite general and straight to the point. The tags were nutrition, fitness, blogs, etc. The blog belongs to Heather Calcote who is a registered dietitian. Her blog focuses on healthy recipes, nutrition tips, fitness and others. Her blog is quite interesting because it not only provides information on a professional level but also is personal because she shares her experiences. For instance, one day she will post about her fitness routine and other days she will post about foods and their nutritional values. Her use of tags are very basic. I don't find that she has a certain style to tag but she only lists general tags pertaining to that blog post.
The second link that I found was http://adietitiangonepaleo.wordpress.com/. The tags belonging to this link were also very basic like the last one. She goes under the alias of Aglaee. She is also a registered dietitian which is important to me because I am an aspiring dietitian. Her blog is much more complex than the first blog I came across. She blogs about nutritional information and her experiences. She is much more professional when it comes to the use of tags. Her tags are fairly descriptive and abundant per blog post. At the side of her blog, she actually placed a tag cloud similar to the one on our ales-204 blog. The more popular tags are larger in font and pop out at you. These tags include: malabsorption, fructose, FODMAPs diet, etc. I find this extremely useful when it comes to searching through her blog.
I find that the use of tags is still very new for people. People can use it very generally to sort there blog posts but others are more skilled when it comes to tagging.
I found my 2 researchers via my twitter account. Their blogs both show that they use delicious as a means to share their knowledge and studies with others.
ReplyDeleteMy first researcher is Timi Gustafson R.D. her website is http://timigustafson.com/. Timi has created a blog in which many other researchers/ authors from different professions may display their works. This helps her to support her beliefs and helps to organize ideas, questions and insights of others into a very simple, easy to use blog. Timi uses tagging as a means organize her guest contributors and their many articles. She also has these articles set up to be shared via Facebook, Delicious, Blogger, Twitter, email and many more social media networks. I believe she has created a very clear and accessible forum in which to view different aspects of health from Kids Health to Health A-Z! I really believe her blog is a very helpful resource for professionals and the curious follower alike!
My second researcher is Rebecca Scritchfield R.D. her website is http://rebeccascritchfield.com/. Rebecca is a very active researcher and author in terms of media and social networking. She uses tagging to direct you to the various businesses and services that she provides: Elite Nutrition and nurture principles. She is an expert in food nutrition, motivational speaking, and is a popular media guest and spokesperson. Her other tags displayed on her main blog page are of the many social media outlets that she has appeared on such as: NBC, The Washington Post, ABC etc. Upon exploring her different businesses/ services I found that she uses a vast array of social networking sites like Blogger, Twitter, and Flickr. She also uses Delicious as a means to share articles with the public in her blog (http://elitenutritiondc.com/2009/01/23/blog-post-1/). I believe Rebecca to be a revolutionary Dietitian in that she has made herself very public via modern methods of social media and of the more customary public media.
Two researchers I found that use Delicious are Dr. Ben Goldacre and Richard Dawkins. Dr. Goldacre is a medical doctor and academic researcher who uses his abilities to assess and critique medical studies. Dr. Goldacre uses resources that include, principally, articles from medical journals and peer-reviewed studies. His tags are principally one-word, and a noun that refers to the subject that it is linking to.
ReplyDeleteRichard Dawkins is best known for encouraging critical assessment of religion, much to the ire of its members. Dawkins usually bookmarks articles and studies on religion and evolution. His tags are generally one-word links to articles on the subject of the tag.
The tagging styles of both of these researchers contributes greatly to clarity and ease of use.
As an aside, I'd like to comment on the inconvenience of using delicious to find researches. Between all the cryptic web names, there are every few people you can put a face to.
October 21, 2011 10:33 AM