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Mon May 25 12:45:20 BST 2009

Karim....

Thanks so much for your time and continued dedication to "your creation"...learned much and still learning!!

joe

Joe Nemeth MD
Chief
Emergency Medicine
Montreal General Hospital
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Montreal Children's Hospital
McGill University Health centre
514 299 6190

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From: Karim Brohi [karimbrohi at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 1:27 PM
To: Trauma-List [TRAUMA.ORG]
Subject: The Most Important Trauma Paper

We've just finished a major overhaul of TRAUMA.ORG's back end, aimed
primarily at improving the user experience.  Most of the changes will not be
obvious on first glance but it should now be a lot easier and intuitive for
users to submit images, cases, jobs, student elective detail etc etc.  The
new site has just gone live so there are still some crickles to iron out.
Along side this I have tried to develop the community features further still
by introducing (we)blog functionality to the site [
http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/blogs/].  This will allow selected
trauma 'commentators' to have an editorial/opinion column on the site.  It's
only just gone live so there's only one under my name at the moment [
http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/blogs/karim_brohi/], but I hope we
can encourage a couple of specific individuals to come on board and see
where it takes us.

I have also started a 'Trauma Research' Blog, where new and/or juicy
articles in the journals can be posted with some editorial content, and
commented/discussed by everyone [
http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/blogs/section_research/].  I was
trying to think of which article should take pole position on this blog,
which led me to wondering what was the most important trauma paper of all
time - which then led to a mini-discussion in the office, which then led to
a mini-argument.  Anyway, after much deliveberation I put up my vote.  If
you disagree or have any other ideas - let us know in the comments section!
 [http://www.trauma.org/index.php/community/blog_post/section_research/860/].
 There are RSS feeds for the blogs if you want to follow them in Google
Reader or similar.

One area that we will need to work out is how trauma.org's website content
should interact with this email discussion group.  Should they remain
completely separate?  Should a notification of new content/posts on the site
be posted here?  Can we synchronise web-based discussions with email-based
discussions?  Or will this lead to two separate, but complimentary
communities?  We'll see how it continues to grow...

Always interested in your thoughts & comments on future directions.

Karim

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