HAPI - Health Awareness Project Information: A listing of health awareness events for Australia, Canada, Serbia, Spain, UK and US and worldwide events. Organised by month, published as monthly/weekly/day events with links to further information. This presentation highlighted the international collaboration of the product. Have a look at www.healthaware.org & http://pinterest.com/bsheim/healthaware/ & https://plus.google.com/u/0/117079728374234431856/posts

1. How HAPI-ness Happened!
By
Bonnie Heim

2. About me...
Innovation doesn’t have to happen at work.

3. There was a gap in information availability – a
comprehensive site was needed that listed health
awareness events and links to those events around the
world
HAPI aka
• www.Healthaware.org
• www.facebook.com/healthaware/
• www.pinterest.com/bsheim/healthaware/
• @Healthaware_org
• #HAPI

4. Innovation!
• A simple question
• Collaboration
• Time & work to produce
• Done completely at home (not a work project)
• Web 2.0 presence
• Continuous improvement based on feedback
and input

5. Information about, and links to the
site have been distributed
primarily by social media
• Google + •LibCampQld
• Twitter •HLA Bulletin
• Facebook •Harper News
• Pinterest •Word of Mouth
• LinkedIn
• eLists
• Email

6. Primary User Locations
Users correlate strongly with collaborators! 1° Australia, 2° US, 3° Spain,
4° Serbia, 5° Netherlands

7. International Collaboration
• Guus Van Den Brekel – Medical Information
Specialist at Central Medical Library, University
Medical Center Groningen, Netherlands
• Ana Ivkovic – Medical Librarian, Institute for
Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade,
Serbia
• Alexandra Rule – Engineer, Bosch, Stuttgart,
Germany
• Juan Medino - Biblioteca. Hospital Universitario
de Fuenlabrada. Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain
• Martha Stevens – Newspaper editor, Harper,
Texas, USA

8. Collaboration with Guus
• We met at the EAHIL 2010 Conference in Portugal.
• First Collaboration was for MeLOW (Medical Librarians
Of the World), a G+ initiative that we co-manage. Late
2011. Please add MeLOW to your circle.
• Early 2012 he recommended that I use Wordpress
format.
• He created icon, and header that I use.
• Recommended www.Conduit.com for mobile app
development.
• Ongoing discussions and ideas for improvements.
• We keep in touch via Facebook, Skype and e-mail.

9. A message from Guus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUHBdNZ3xac
Add MeLOW to your G+ circles, created using Screencast-O-Matic

10. Collaboration with Ana
• We met at EAHIL 2010 in Portugal.
• Kept in touch through Facebook.
• Her time and resources are extremely limited.
• She found a source for Serbian Health
Awareness information that is in Serbian,
Hungarian and English, this has been included
in HAPI.

11. Collaboration with Alex
• I have known Alex for almost 9 years, she used
to live in Australia, and now lives in Germany.
• She’s not a librarian (she’s an engineer), she
has great ideas and I value her input and
suggestions.
• We keep in touch via yahoo messenger, e-
mails, and twice yearly meetings in person.

12. Collaboration with Juan
• I met Juan through Twitter. We collaborate via
e-mail and Twitter.
• He is my contact person for a group of medical
librarians in Spain that publish Dias Mundiales
at
http://www.netvibes.com/mundiales#Creditos
• The page for Espaῇa is in Spanish and English.
• They assist with content and translations.
• They have added the HAPI icon and mentioned
our collaboration on their credit page.

13. Collaboration with Martha
• Have known her for over 20 years
• She is a small town newspaper editor and
assists with her local public library.
• She assists by promoting the website.
• We collaborate by e-mail.

14. Points to consider when collaborating
internationally
• Time zones
• Languages, ESL
• Method(s) of communication
• Cultural differences
• Knowledge of common tools
• Differences in versions of software
“Be sensitive to cues from others, keep an open
mind and adjust as you go!” Alexandra Rule, 2012

15. Statistics from site
First published Jan. 22, 2012, as of May 1, 2012
• Viewed 1112 times
• Viewed from the following countries:
• Australia, United States, Spain, Serbia,
Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada, India,
Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Morocco,
Ireland, Russian Federation, Hungary, South
Africa, Japan, Cape Verde, Philippines.

16. Interest in Pinterest
As of May 2, 2012: 89 followers, 163 pins

17. Twitter for quick promotion
@healthaware_org
#HAPI
88 followers
Of those followers, I only personally know 3
Regular tweeting is crucial,
as long as it isn’t too often!

18. Facebook Presence
To find Healthaware on Facebook, type Health in the searchbox

19. Top Referrers
based on WordPress Analytics
• Search Engines
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Yahoo
• LinkedIn
• Blogspot
• Netvibes
• qut.edu
• Minervaforum.com
• Wordpress.com

20. Australian Collaboration
• Christine Jacobs, Perth
• Kelly Hall, Branch Librarian, Morley Public
Library, City of Bayswater
• Feedback from participants at LibCampQld
who attended an impromptu session where I
talked about www.healthaware.org site
development and mobile app development
• Ongoing support from colleagues and friends
at Queensland Health

21. Next!
• Would like to include pages for France, Italy,
Germany, the Netherlands and any other
country that would like to be included.
• Looking into availability of a map that shows
where people are viewing it from and/or a
map of what countries are participating.
• Will continue development of the
mobile app.
• Increase use of social medias and
collaboration internationally.

22. More...
• It is interesting to note that organisation of
events is not well coordinated globally, or
even on a national level in many cases.
• By collating events from around the world, it
has highlighted the need for collaboration
amongst similar organisations working
towards the same goals.
• Ultimately, I would like to inspire coordination
of synchronisation of events on a global scale,
in such a way as to optimise resources.

23. www.healthaware.org
HAPI happened
because it could.
I saw a gap
and
filled it.
bsheim@yahoo.com
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