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May. 4th, 2009 12:25 pmTo help stop the absurd amount of misinformation about H1N1 (aka Swine) Flu, take some time and review the slides to this presentation.
Good informaton on Swine Flu
Excerpt included but not mine:
Supercourse Newsletter
www.pitt.edu/~super1/
May 1,2009
Dear Friends:
Please forward to your TV station, all the students in your University, and Government workers
It has been a wild ride this week with the JIT lecture on H1N1 (Swine Flu). The JIT Supercourse Swine Flu team grew out of nothing and became a Sequoia tree. The lecture is an exciting and outstanding overview of H1N1 (Swine Flu). During a period of 5 days our team developed a H1N1 network, and created a H1N1 lecture. We then had great friends to translate it into Arabic, Russian, Farsi, Spanish, and Vietnamese and other languages. On a daily basis it has been updated. The response world wide has been wonderful. We have been averaging 5-10,000 visits a day from 182 countries. Swine Flu lecture" we are 1 and 2 page ranks among 153,000
LECTURE NOTES HERE
The Developers have done a Herculean task.. These include Rashin Chotani who wrote the lecture, Eugene Shubnikov the overall organizer, and the incredible Just-in-Time translators: [Emails Deleted for privacy]
It has been very exciting. Several people offered suggestions as to why it has been a great success by the Supercourse. One is that it is a top scientific lecture, and in a readily usable format, (PowerPoint). It is
also up to date and many different languages. In addition, the team above are incredibly motivated to work into the middle of the night to deliver powerful content for free to improve the health of the world. I am very proud to work with these people.
However, by far the most frequently give reason was:
Credibility (definition)
1. Capable of being believed; plausible.
2. Worthy of confidence; reliable.
To be believed, it must be credible. (H. Humphrey), The Supercourse H1N1lecture is believed
Many felt that the information on television or radio had less credibility that ours. Also, the information from governments may not be completely accurate. Ours is some of the best information available as it is coming from top scientific sources. There also was interesting suggestion that this standardizes information from across the world, and all are receiving the latest materials. It has been very exciting, but we are all a little pooped!! We are very proud with what we have done with you.
I do think that the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility (McMahon)
HELP:
We need your help. Please help to disseminate the information about the lecture to your ministry, academia, schools, religious organization, industry, etc, as everyone is concerned with H1N1. Please send the link to at least 50 friends. We are going to have a Swine Flu contest. I will send a wonderful gift from Jan and I from Pittsburgh, to the person in the Supercourse who reaches the most number of people. (Jan will pick it out, as she is a Native Pittsburgh, and has much better taste than I have). Who
will be the first person to share the JIT lecture information with 50 people? How about 1,000, or 100,000? Who will crack the 1 million person barrier? Tell your TV station about this and all the students at your University. All kidding aside, one of the most problematic aspects of an Epidemic like this is the Epidemiology of Fear. You the Supercourse faculty can combat this. We 64,000 faculty in a way are a global crisis management team.
Just in Time regards:
Supercourse JIT team:
Ron, Eugene, Faina, Mita, Rashid, Ali, Kawkab, Francois, Nabil, Abdel,
Najeeb, Nicholas, Soni, Ismail, Ian, Vint, Gil, Francois
Good informaton on Swine Flu
Excerpt included but not mine:
Supercourse Newsletter
www.pitt.edu/~super1/
May 1,2009
Dear Friends:
Please forward to your TV station, all the students in your University, and Government workers
It has been a wild ride this week with the JIT lecture on H1N1 (Swine Flu). The JIT Supercourse Swine Flu team grew out of nothing and became a Sequoia tree. The lecture is an exciting and outstanding overview of H1N1 (Swine Flu). During a period of 5 days our team developed a H1N1 network, and created a H1N1 lecture. We then had great friends to translate it into Arabic, Russian, Farsi, Spanish, and Vietnamese and other languages. On a daily basis it has been updated. The response world wide has been wonderful. We have been averaging 5-10,000 visits a day from 182 countries. Swine Flu lecture" we are 1 and 2 page ranks among 153,000
LECTURE NOTES HERE
The Developers have done a Herculean task.. These include Rashin Chotani who wrote the lecture, Eugene Shubnikov the overall organizer, and the incredible Just-in-Time translators: [Emails Deleted for privacy]
It has been very exciting. Several people offered suggestions as to why it has been a great success by the Supercourse. One is that it is a top scientific lecture, and in a readily usable format, (PowerPoint). It is
also up to date and many different languages. In addition, the team above are incredibly motivated to work into the middle of the night to deliver powerful content for free to improve the health of the world. I am very proud to work with these people.
However, by far the most frequently give reason was:
Credibility (definition)
1. Capable of being believed; plausible.
2. Worthy of confidence; reliable.
To be believed, it must be credible. (H. Humphrey), The Supercourse H1N1lecture is believed
Many felt that the information on television or radio had less credibility that ours. Also, the information from governments may not be completely accurate. Ours is some of the best information available as it is coming from top scientific sources. There also was interesting suggestion that this standardizes information from across the world, and all are receiving the latest materials. It has been very exciting, but we are all a little pooped!! We are very proud with what we have done with you.
I do think that the standards of the media have dropped to an all-time low in terms of credibility (McMahon)
HELP:
We need your help. Please help to disseminate the information about the lecture to your ministry, academia, schools, religious organization, industry, etc, as everyone is concerned with H1N1. Please send the link to at least 50 friends. We are going to have a Swine Flu contest. I will send a wonderful gift from Jan and I from Pittsburgh, to the person in the Supercourse who reaches the most number of people. (Jan will pick it out, as she is a Native Pittsburgh, and has much better taste than I have). Who
will be the first person to share the JIT lecture information with 50 people? How about 1,000, or 100,000? Who will crack the 1 million person barrier? Tell your TV station about this and all the students at your University. All kidding aside, one of the most problematic aspects of an Epidemic like this is the Epidemiology of Fear. You the Supercourse faculty can combat this. We 64,000 faculty in a way are a global crisis management team.
Just in Time regards:
Supercourse JIT team:
Ron, Eugene, Faina, Mita, Rashid, Ali, Kawkab, Francois, Nabil, Abdel,
Najeeb, Nicholas, Soni, Ismail, Ian, Vint, Gil, Francois
