NBII Wildlife Disease Information Node (WDIN) 2010 Web Stats
What are Visitors Finding Useful?
The WDIN staff continuously monitors numerous web sources for useful, new content to add to our online collection of wildlife disease related resources, such as maps, reports, images and web pages. On average, WDIN staff adds about 4-6 new items to the site collection each month. Looking back over 2010, the resources listed below have been the most popular with WDIN users.
- Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) Web Application
- Wildlife Disease Investigation Manual, Third Edition
- DEFRA - England Wildlife Health Strategy
- USGS NWHC - Fact Sheet on Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Wildlife Health
- National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center Website
- EWDA Network for Wildlife Health Surveillance in Europe: Summary of Data Presented at the Inaugural Meeting - Brussels, 15 October 2009
- WDIN's Wildlife Health Newsmaker Interviews [Web page]
- Avian Flu: The disease in birds [Video]
- Presentation slides for "Climate Change: Contributions to Emergence, Reemergence and Spread of Infectious Disease"
- USGS NWHC - White-nose Syndrome News RSS Feed
How Can You Learn about What’s New on the WDIN Website?
Visitors can quickly view the last 10 items that were added to the site from the WDIN home page, under the section Current Content and News (see Figure 1). RSS users can subscribe to the New Content RSS feed provided at the website here
and automatically receive updates in their feed readers (e.g. Google Reader and Bloglines).Non-RSS users can also take advantage of this feed, but will have to monitor it manually. This can be done by visiting the WDIN RSS webpage and clicking on the [Subscribe] link. A new window will display the last 20 items added to the site (see Figure 2). You will not be subscribed unless you take additional actions. The same steps can be applied to view content from the other available RSS feeds.
WDIN provides a number of
feeds that can be used to monitor new content added to our web-based services, e.g. Meetings and Events Calendar, Global Wildlife Disease News Map, and Wildlife Disease Journal Digest. Additional feeds, such as Top Ten Resources Last Month or Hidden Gems, offer even more ways to explore the site’s contents. You will find the entire collection of feeds here.Can You Help Expand our Collection?
With help from the wildlife health community, WDIN can more quickly expand the site collection. By suggesting valuable wildlife disease related resources to the WDIN staff, community members assist the WDIN by increasing the amount of quality materials we add to our site each month.
If you know of a very useful resource that every wildlife professional should know about, consider sharing it with your colleagues through the WDIN website. Simply email the url to us at digest@wdin.org for review. We will index the resource so that it can be seen on the website and through the RSS feeds.
