Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full-Text Documents (4 Items) Veterans--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census Fast Facts About the U.S. Veteran Population
A new fact sheet from Census. It was prepared in honor of Veterans' Day, November 11, 2003.
-- Health--Senior Citizens
Source: National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine New Web Site, NIH SeniorHealth.Gov
From the announcement, To do this, the NIA and NLM brought together researchers who study cognition, web site designers, and communications experts at the two institutes to fashion a site that is easy for older adults to read, understand, remember, and navigate. For example, the site features large print and short, easy-to-read segments of information repeated in a variety of formats -- such as open-captioned videos and short quizzes -- to increase the likelihood it will be remembered. Consistent page layout and prompts help older adults move from one place to another on the site without feeling lost or overwhelmed. Each topic provides general background information, quizzes, frequently asked questions (FAQs), open-captioned video clips, transcripts for the videos, and photos and illustrations with captions. NIHSeniorHealth.gov will have a "talking" function, which will allow users the option of reading the text or listening to it as it is read to them. Finally, in addition to being senior-friendly, the new site also complies with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, making it accessible for persons with disabilities.
-- Children--Media
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Full-Text Report, Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers New study finds children age zero to six spend as much time with tv, computers, and video games as playing outside. Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text ||| Additional Resources
-- Cancer--United Kingdom-Statistics
Source: NHS
New, Full-Text, NHS Cancer Plan: Maintaining the Momentum Summary ||| Direct to Full-Text
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
