Medical Societies


The society is most involved with MedInfoNOW while Doody Enterprises is building a customized version of the service to the society's specifications. During this development phase, society staff must provide Doody Enterprises with:

  • graphics of the society's brand and logo;
  • the society's own name for the MedInfoNOW service (see the Typical brands link at the Medical Societies page);
  • a list of journal article topics of greatest interest to its members;
  • a list of books written by key members of the society;
  • a "default" profile reflecting a typical member's specialty interests in the book literature and topical interests in the journal article literature.
  • the society's member database in electronic format.

Once the site has been launched to members, the most successful societies use the Knowledge Manager Web site to

  • post news and announcements of interest to its members to run in the Weekly Literature Update;
  • refine the list of book titles the society wants to highlight at the Web site;
  • use its existing print and electronic communications with its members to promote the service; and
  • monitor its members' usage of the service.

Doody Enterprises provides the society with semiannual reports documenting the society members' usage of the service.