OrganizedWisdom Launches Improved Site Navigation and WisdomCollections

Sometimes small innovations make the biggest difference. The OrganizedWisdom team tries to make tweaks and enhancements each week that hopefully translate to better results for our users.

I'm happy to announce two such features that we're beta testing.

Navigation Frames: Making It Easy to Search Multiple Health Resources
Frames? Yes, they were big early in Web 1.0, and we're bringing them back. Why? Well, for an "assisted search" site, we realized that once users clicked on one of the resources on our pages, we weren't really assisting them as they continued their research.  Since we know that people searching for health information often visit 10 Web sites or more, we wanted to make this process as easy as possible. So now, if you visit a WisdomCard on any topic, and click on one of the many links to great resources, you'll find we've added a navigation frame that helps users quickly and easily search, or return to our site, for more information.

Our goal is to provide a health search service that is like having a doctor in the family.  So design changes and improvements like this are intended to make for good "deskside manner." We're holding a user's hand through the research process, and making it even easier to get to the next great resource on our list.

WisdomCollections: Making It Simple to Research Your Condition
OrganizedWisdom helps people do health research by creating hand-crafted WisdomCards--full of expert-selected online resources--on thousands of popular search terms. One of our challenges has always been to make it as easy as possible for people to find all of the WisdomCards we have to offer on a particular subject matter, especially now that we cover more than 16,000 topics. So we've just launched WisdomCollections to address this issue. 

Our new WisdomCollections round up all of the assorted WisdomCards related to a common condition or health issue, and display those resources in groupings that are easy to browse and navigate. You can jump from getting the latest news on your condition, to looking up drugs, to investigating various surgeries and procedures, to finding out which celebrities have the same illness. We now offer WisdomCollections on popular topics like breast cancer, HPV, high cholesterol, anxiety, and diabetes, and plan to roll out several hundred WisdomCollections in the coming weeks and months.

As always, we'd love to hear from you so we can keep making improvements to our service. Please share your comments below or email me.