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We were able to make a presentation about the promise of PubTrawlr, and all the progress that we’ve made. Check it out below!
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In about four hours, we’re giving a short talk on PubTrawlr and the overall value. To preserve them for posterity, here are the slides I’ll be talking from.
Read more →Right in time for the American Public Health Association Conference, we wanted to announce several major user improvements to PubTrawlr. Our sleek new landing page Together with Hammer Marketing and Mind Design and Development, we have a clean new look to help guide your scientific searches. Predictive searching Maybe you know what you’re looking for, […]
Read more →Yes, this post will save you $1,200! That’s $1,200 in the cost of registration and the cost of your time that you don’t have to spend! Before I get into the specific results, I want to go up on a soapbox. Over the past two years, the virtual conferences I’ve been a part of, both […]
Read more →Our sister company, The Dawn Chorus Group, is involved in many community-based research and evaluation projects. This work is part of our larger overall mission of getting good ideas into practice. More and more, our partner meetings are beginning with an indigenous peoples’ land acknowledgment. A land acknowledgment speaks to, and about, the original inhabitants […]
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Together with colleagues from the Universities of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Charlotte, along with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, we are super stoked to finally see Blending Participatory Action Synthesis and Meta-Ethnography: An Innovative Approach to Evaluating Complex Community Health Transformation in print! Here’s the plain language gist of this. Community health improvement initiatives […]
Read more →Morning, folks. We’re knee-deep in preparation for the APHA conference in about 10 days. As part of that prep, we’re been implementing a pretty substantive overhaul of the design of PubTrawlr, along with a few UX improvements, like predictive searching. Those should all be rolling out, well, within the next 10 days. So, stay tuned […]
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We can’t be that silly this year with APHA coming up, but I still got the great Neon_Cacti on Fiverr to great an absolutely brutal logo for us. BASK IN THE DARKNESS OF PUBTRAWLR!
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The really important community work happens in the community, not the laboratory. To get a more robust picture of the state of community-based research and action, we’ve started looking more broadly at nontraditional sources for updates. And we’ve not been finding much! Twitter, Reddit, and news archives were all kind of a bust! This is […]
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The best way to engage deeply with scientific research is to read the articles. Unfortunately, scientific articles are sometimes locked behind paywalls. Although many journals provide a per article purchase option, the prices can often run up to $40 US. Pricing like this put the content out of the reach of many people who might […]
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We wouldn’t be where are without the amazing open source communities that thrive around the internet, full stop. Anytime I had a debugging problem when putting together PubTrawlr or Readiness Learning Systems, I could almost always get back on the right track by going through posts on Stack Overflow or Medium. So why isn’t there anything like that for […]
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For those of us who straddle between research and practice, it may not be enough to keep abreast of the scientific literature. It’s important, of course–PubTrawlr was founded on that assumption. And yet, there is so much more discourse out that that can help practitioners understand the on-the-ground conditions. And by understanding these, maybe we […]
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