June, 2009

Dreamweaver insert blank row into table

If you want to add in a row to a table – if you are using dreamweaver go to the top row of the table and then select Insert (top option) – Table Objects(side option) – Insert Row above (option) and this will give you a blank row to fill in

Informed consent and virtual worlds

A way of helping the mentally impaired to give informed medical consent in Second Life (a part of Imperial College’s virtual postgraduate medical school in SciLands)….

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Source : SLHealth List

Habitat Twitter backlash

Habitat has provided a perfect case study in how not to use social media with its clumsy attempts to insert popular internet keywords into its promotional Twitter posts writes Joanna Perry….

Retail Week Story

This calls to mind the Cillit Bang blog controversy from 2005.

See also:

Habitat says misuse of Twitter keywords was a mistake

Cillit Bang clanger

Long term health conditions 2009 (DOH Research Report)

This report presents the results of the second wave of a three-wave tracking study commissioned by the Department of Health with Ipsos MORI. The aims of the research programme are to exploring attitudes towards ‘self-care’ and, more specifically:

- explore the general public’s perceptions and behaviour with regard to both their own health and the NHS generally; and

- capture the attitudes and behaviour of those people with a long term health condition with regard to the self treatment of their condition and their use of healthcare services.

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