MedTagger.Com Overview

Medtagger.com is where social networking and search technology meet to provide trusted, relevant information to the global diabetes community.

Medtagger.com is a high powered search engine that gathers input from its membership community to determine which documents are considered valuable.

Medtagger.com is very different from the popular internet search engines that are out there.

This difference is best illustrated though an example.

If you enter the search keywords "diabetes", into one of the popular search engines, you get over 70 million search results from thousands of websites.

The problem with this is that users have no way of telling which of these returned documents contain reliable information.

Medtagger.com starts with an index of only a limited set of reputable websites and content that has been individually tagged by community members. In addition to this, documents with high popularity index are ranked higher in the search results.

Functions and Features

The landing page of Medtagger.com has four tabbed pages.

• The "What's hot" tab shows content that is actively being tagged by users or new additions to the search index.
  
  
• The "Most Popular" Tab shows content with high popularity index.
  
  
• The "My Page" tab takes you to your home page of tagged documents. The top portion of this page shows some basic information about you, including member type, screen name, location, popularity index, and number of documents tagged. (Member name or email is never disclosed.) Medical professionals can compile a list of selected reading materials and use this list as "Information Prescription" to share with newly diagnosed patients. This home page can be directly accessed by entering www.medtagger.com/. e.g. The home page of staff2 is www.medtagge.com/staff2
  
  
• Finally, the "Tagger like me" tab shows search results for documents tagged by other members with similar profile as you. Diabetes educators can see what other diabetes educators are tagging.

Registration

Registration is fast, and free and easy on Medtagger.com. At the homepage, simply click the link "Register" at the top right, and type in the required fields. You will soon reach the field "Invite code". This is typically provided if you have been invited to this site by an existing user. Otherwise, leave it blank.

Once you have submitted the registration page, check your email account for the verification email, and you"re ready to get started.

Log-in to your account, and click on "Update profile" at the top right corner. You can fill in some more specific fields here, and you can also find the "Referrer code". This would be the "invitation code" that you can send to those who you invite to med tagger. The more people you invite, the higher your popularity index will become.

Bookmarking

Try typing something into the search box; for example. Diabetes, feet. You get search results with Popularity Index indicators on the left of each search result. You can now click on any one of these search results and review its contents.

If you find the information really interesting and you think it is worth sharing; you may wish to bookmark it. Click "Bookmark and Tag" at the top, and you can chose from the suggested keywords to tag the document with, or you can type in your own. Check the appropriate boxes to indicate audience category and topics covered. In doing this, you are actually contributing to the content tagging process. You can also tag any document you find on the web by copying its link and pasting it in the "Tag A New Document" page.

After you submit this page, you have successfully managed to tag a document. This document should then appear under the "My Page" tab within an hour or so.

We hope you will chose to join the Medtagger.com community and help combat diabetes sharing information and contributing your knowledge.