Web 2.0 Articles

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Is Technology Running Your Life? Set Some Boundaries
  I am not very good at separating my work from my life, partially because my work is a big ...
• The Use of Technology in Mental Health: Applications, Ethics and Practice
  A growing number of people have lived with the Internet all their lives, with concomitant increase in the use of new communications technologies in therapy and in training mental health practitioners.  Editors Kate Anthony, DeeAnna ...
• Hey, It’s 2007! Let’s Rate Doctors!
  Most people gain value from reading reviews about products and videos and such online. We read a review of a book on Amazon.com and believe we can trust most of the reviews to provide a ...
• Reliability and Validity in a Web 2.0 World
  We all know reality from fiction, and we would all like to think we recognize “information” when we see it. But do we really? The world of Web 2.0 is making such differentiation increasingly difficult, as ...
• The Quality of Online Support Communities: People not Posts
  The popularity of online communities has never been stronger, with the growth of new groups (such as YouTube) skyrocketing past those of old. But sometimes people and companies confuse what makes a popular community, well, ...
• Top 10 Suggestions for Online Startups
  I wrote this article after having been involved with -- as employee, management, or consultant -- a number of (mostly) Internet startups over the past decade. You see a lot of the same patterns and ...
• Web 2.0: Consistency, Relevancy and Reliability
  Implications for Health and Mental Health Information Online I've seen this question from varying folks over the past year or so as the next obvious evolution in the "tagging" craze -- "Why don't we just ...
• The Road Online to Empowered Clients and Providers
  This chapter focuses on how the provider's changing role, combined with psychoeducational Web sites, online support groups, and emerging modalities like e-therapy, can open the door to providing clients with a higher-quality level of ...