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Nextdoor.com Funnels Info from Neighbors, City Hall Directly toResidents

Joining its Goleta and Ventura neighbors, the City of Santa Barbara last Tuesday became part of Nextdoor.com a neighborhood-specific social networking site after the city council approved staffs ability to post pertinent city information on thesite.

Nextdoor, which is free and found in many other communities across the country, is more secure than other social networking sites in that it requires members to prove they actually live in the neighborhood they sign up to join. It can be a resource not only for neighbors but also for thecity.

Frankly, there are very limited options for the city to communicate directly with neighborhoods, so we discussed this particular tool helping us provide one route, said Nina Johnson, assistant to City Administrator Jim Armstrong. The city, Johnson said, will use the site to keep neighborhoods abreast of construction projects, upcoming events, and what to do in anemergency.

After seeing Goletas February launch of the site, Johnson said that the City of Santa Barbara thought it would be a good idea. We thought it was a great tool, she said, especially for people who like to use socialmedia.

Johnson said that in the three days since its launch, Santa Barbaras Nextdoor has had 415 members join across 32 neighborhoods, some of which including Hitchcock, the upper Eastside, and San Roque are more active than others but growing by theday.

Councilmember Cathy Murillo, although initially concerned that neighborhood monitors could use their position to advance their own interests a worry Murillo said was assuaged when she found out neighborhoods can have multiple leaders and problems can be reported to the programs customer service department lauded the sitessecurity.

Everyone has to say who they are, she said, mentioning the sites identity-verification system. People are held to a little bit of a higher standard. Murillo also said that the citys ability to now funnel relevant information to specific areas will be helpful. Theyll be able to talk directly to that neighborhood, she said. Therell be an electronic communication venue, and I think itll begreat.

San Roque resident and community activist Mari Mender is really liking Nextdoor so far. After doing some research on the site homework, she said, no pun intended Mender joined and has since seen benefitsaplenty.

In addition to using the site to coordinate her already-close-knit neighborhoods regular block parties, Mender was finally been able to meet one of her neighbors an 80-year-old woman who lives diagonally across from her. Now, after connecting with the woman on Nextdoor, Mender said, everybody has gathered around her to see if she needsanything.

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Derek Stoneking

Today, when a judge orders someone not to have contact with another person, it means a lot more than dont knock on their door, call their phone or send them a text message.

Contact, in todays tech-savvy society, also covers the virtual realm, meaning messages, comments and even photos directed at a person on social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter.

Consider this weeks arrest in Iowa City of Derek P. Stoneking, 27, of Iowa City, for a comment that hes accused of posting on one of his own Facebook photos.

A judge on June 28 ordered Stoneking not to contact a woman meaning he cant communicate with her through any means, including third parties, according to a criminal complaint. But Stoneking on Tuesday admitted to commenting on old photos of the two of them on his Facebook profile, explaining that he didnt realize the victim would be notified of his comments because she is no longer tagged in the photos, according to the complaint.

Depending on a persons Facebook settings, the social networking site emails users when theyre mentioned in a comment, tagged in photos and any time someone comments on those pictures. Stoneking told police that he didnt intend to contact the victim and said he was just commenting on the past good times, according to the complaint.

In addition to last weeks no contact order, Stoneking was ordered not to have contact with the victim on June 19 as part of his bond conditions in a felony willful injury causing bodily injury case thats set for trial in October.

Iowa City police didnt disclose details about what Stoneking is accused of writing under the Facebook photo, although Sgt. Denise Brotherton said the comments involved the woman and, she said, it doesnt matter if the comments were threatening or non-confrontational.

When there is a no contact order issued, its absolutely no contact, she said. She got the notification, thats why it wasnt just him doing his own personal posts.

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LinkedIn co-founder Konstantin Guericke

The fifth most common cause of death is doctor error, which often come from miscommunication among doctors, said Guericke, who recently joined Doximity's board of directors.

With Doximity, doctors are better connected with people in their industry and can collaborate to improve treatment and save lives, Guericke said on "First on CNBC."

"When you look at what doctors are doing and how they are communicating, it's still primarily by fax and pager, so I think there is some room for improvement," said Guericke.

One reason communication can sometimes be poor among doctors is because of medical privacy laws like HIPPA, which limits the way patients health information can be shared.

Doximity addresses privacy concerns by allowing doctors to share information via the website or mobile app with HIPPA compliant encrypted messages.

Like LinkedIn

"LinkedIn has professional profiles, but I think doctors, at least the ones I've spoken with feel a little bit like a fish out of the water. It's all business there and doctors don't feel entirely comfortable, they're mingling with lawyers, insurance agents and patients, so they want something more focused," Guericke said. "Doximity offers a HIPPA compliance solution and allows them to do their business, for example, referrals."

So far, there are over 700,000 physicians in the United States signed up for Doximity, according to the company website.

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Doctors' Social Network Can Help Save Lives: LinkedIn Co-Founder

Wakoopa, the social networking site that monitors the software used by its members, announced last month that they will be shutting down Wakoopa Social.

Wakoopa Social was launched in 2007 to make software discovery as social as possible. But in 2010, the Wakoopa team decided to switch their focus on the corporate research community and made products such as Trailspot and QD to bring online research to the next level. This effort was successful as more clients become interested in their product, and the Wakoopa team is becoming more innovative in optimizing research solutions.

But alas, the root of all their success, Wakoopa Social, took a backseat as the new part of Wakoopa became more time consuming. They had the option of shutting the service down last year but they still saw Wakoopians enjoying the possibilities of their service. Still, Wakoopa Social deterioration is inevitable and they do not want to see it crumble right before their eyes.

So last month, Wakoopa decided to kill off the service before things turn worse.

We have decided that the time has come to kill your darlings; we are closing down Wakoopa Social, Wouter Broekhof, Founder & CTO of Wakoopa, wrote on their wall. This means Wakoopa will continue to exist, only now focussing entirely on the corporate research community.

Last June 23rd, they stopped tracking their users data in order to generate exports which contains a users own application usage, both on the web and on the desktop, length of usage and the name and category of the application.

The service was officially shut down on June 30 and the exports became available for download on July 1. Wakoopians possibly have three months, until October 1st, to download all their data, and after that, all data will be destroyed.

Wakoopa will continue to make cool products for the research market and were even thinking about something more consumer oriented, Broekhof said. You will hear about that soon enough!

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Doctors too use social networking sites for professional purposes, but not all of them to the same extent. Healthcare professionals in emerging countries are generally more connected than in Europe.

In comparison with their European colleagues, physicians in Asia, India and Russia seem more inclined to use social networking sites to help them with their work. Cegedim Strategic Data, a leading provider of healthcare market research, has just released the results of its online study which shows that Japanese doctors are the biggest fans of online medical communities, with 78% of the medical profession in Japan making use of them. Next in line come doctors in China (55%), India (54%) and Russia (52%). In contrast, less than half of all doctors in European countries take part in online medical communities. In Spain the figure is 48%, in the United Kingdom 40%, and 39% in Germany. The countries which are the least advanced in the adoption of such dedicated communities are Italy (15%) and lagging far behind France with 9%.

Along the same lines, the adoption of the mainstream social networks Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn for professional purposes is far more prevalent among physicians in emerging countries than in Europe. Out in front here are Indian doctors, some 58% of members of the profession in the subcontinent surveyed reporting that they use these tools. Usage figures then drop sharply however, with just 31% using mainstream social media in Brazil, 29% in China and 25% in Russia. Despite these lower figures, the emerging countries are still ahead of European countries such as the United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany, where 21%, 18% and 11% respectively of doctors report using these online tools. Once again, Italy and France come in last with 10% and 7% respectively.

However, the findings of the study are less clear-cut when we observe how doctors use the Internet for professional networking. Although the top two places are occupied by emerging countries - India with 65% and Brazil with 56% - some European countries are not that far behind. This is the case in the United Kingdom, where 51% use the Internet for medical networking; they are followed by German doctors, with a 47% rate. These two countries are even ahead of China (44%) and Russia (35%). Nevertheless one trend remains unaltered - the reluctance of Italian and French medical professionals, who once again appear least likely to use online networks, only 21% of the doctors surveyed in Italy and 16% in France doing so.

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