CFHA is committed to keeping you up to date, informed and directly involved in the collaborative information process. As part of this process, we are experimenting with providing the CFHA web site as a "user-driven" content system. We are creating a wide network of active peer editors who will comb the World Wide Web, peruse journals and other scholarly sources and even share their own writing and research.
The result will be a dynamic, ever-rich and most-current collection of information available anywhere about integrated/collaborative healthcare. We will make use of the best of social networks combined with solid research results to help enhance your understanding and guide the development of best practices.
We have two main aspects to the peer editing system: Editors of sections and Editors of pages. Editors can serve as sub-editors for pages within their own sections and also can be sub-editors for other sections.
All editors edit and add to existing content through a secure login. When a Page Editor submits content, the Section Editor where that page will reside is immediately sent an email notification that includes a link to approve the content.
Once they approve the content, the Section Editor publishes it. (The Executive Director also is the web master for the CFHA site and serves as an additional check of content and a resource for editing and technical support.)
It's really that simple!
We have some slightly more detailed instructions for those who want to become Page or Section Editors. Editors should be advanced members of their field and/or discipline; they will be seen as content experts and need to be that in reality.
Page Editors may be experts but they also might be newer to their disciplines. For those building a career, this is an excellent way to delve into many aspects of your discipline and add to the knowledge base of the field as a whole.
Training is quick, easy and you will have all the backup support you want for adding articles, news items, events, links, images.
If you are a CFHA member and would like to become a peer Section or Page Editor, please send a note explaining your interest, discipline and general level of expertise, to Ben Miller.
This is an excitiing, new process. We hope many of you get involved!