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Epietalum.net: the final frontier of EAN
By Florian Burckhardt (PAE Cohort 12, Webmaster EAN)
Hello everyone,
After years of digital care by Chikwe Ihekweazu (cohort 9) I took over managing the Epiet Alumni Network website (http://www.epietalum.net).

Please register & contribute!

The goals of knitting together past, present and future EPIETs and their friends from associated programs and of professional career support remain the same. The means to these ends have changed a bit/byte.
The new website is powered by Drupal, an open source content and community management system with strong collaborative features. As webmaster (or rather web-janitor) I will mainly keep the site running.
Editorial responsibility (and the power to kick users) lies with EAN-board, so you better behave... The most notable feature of the new site is that registered users (i.e. you) can comment virtually anything and can also create own content.
Anyone who hasn't spent the last 5 years in a cave (NdEditor: Florian, Some Caves in Afghanistan have WiFi apparently) is familiar with this "Web 2.0-usergenerated- content" concept which helped to turn the internet into an ever bigger collection of hyperlinked irrelevance.
Alas, epietalum.net is different!

• Have a stats question? Post it in the stats-forum (http://www.epietalum.net/forum/21).
• Want to tell the world about your Epiet/WHO/... field mission? Post it in the "stories from the field" forum (http://www.epietalum.net/forum/23).
• Discovered new epi software? Tell everyone here (http://www.epietalum.net/forum/7).
• Read an exceptionally good (or bad) article? Critically appraise it here (http://www.epietalum.net/forum/8) so that others may benefit.
• Looking for something? Move over google, here comes our twice a day updated full text searchable index.

Information is the only resource that doesn't diminish when shared.

However, most of us use information on the internet one way: taking without giving back. Epietalum.net can only be as good as we make it.
Stats questions can only get answered and articles appraised if people (i.e. you) sacrifice time and effort to do so.
But close your eyes and imagine epietalum.net two years from now: an information powerhouse and virtual community for intervention epidemiologists.

Epidemic crowd intelligence.