Organized Wisdom is a website that offers a human powered health web search. The health information is well organized and covers numerous topics. For example on Oral Health they offer the following categories: GuideWisdom, 5 Great Resources on Oral Health, What is Oral Health?, Oral Health Resources, Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs about Oral Health, Foundations and Support Groups on Oral Health, Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Oral Health, Clinical Trials on Oral Health, Related Wisdom Card, and User Recommended Links for Oral Health. Under each category are links primarily to external sites that the people who have edited the page feel are important and great rescources. For example, under Oral health there are links to WebMD, Mayo Clinic, and the American Dental Association. Unfortunely, there is no link to my website http://www.teethremoval.com.
The site provides reviewed and organized search result pages called WisdomCards which go through a general reviewer and a doctor, such as the one on Oral Health I just described. Guides and Physician Reviewers are paid for each WisdomCard that gets accepted and published. You can even get payed by being a contributor. The first five WisdomCards are payed at $10 each, and the pay goes up as you contribute more WisdomCards.
A nice feature of the site is that each page shows the team who approved it. There are profile pages, too, but these are very simple: just a picture, bio, a link to a website, and a list of the articles users have contributed and saved.
Organized Wisdom also offers forums for participants to discuss health topics. The forums do not have very many posts though. You need to register a free account in order to access the forums.
The one complaint I have with OrganizedWisdom is they have a lot of Google Adsense Ads on their pages. I feel that more professional looking sites should not have many of these as the deter from the postive experience. Further, I feel like the name choice of the website may not be that great and it is slightly too long. I wonder why they didn’t go with something such as HealthWisdom or PatientWisdom.
In addition, I find it ironic that wisdom is such a large part of their website. If you have any experience using OrganizedWisdom I would be interested in hearing about it.
Thanks for the great feedback and your write up. You raise a good point regarding our Google Ads and how you feel there are too many. We are actually in what I would call a testing mode to determine the appropriate amount of ads and best positions for the user experience. We will certainly put this feedback to good use. We have recently added in new ad positions to test and are planning on taking some out at well. Our priority is to make a great user experience, and balance that with the best way to integrate sponsors in a transparent and non-obtrusive manner.
Thanks again for featuring us on your blog which is great. Remember, you can always recommend links to our WisdomCards so if you feel you have a particular post that belongs on one of our WisdomCards, please do suggest it and our Guides will review it right away….
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great site!