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<h2 style="font-size:105%; font-weight:bold; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em; width:50%;">August 27, 2020:</h2>
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[[File:Covid-19 San Salvatore 09.jpg|left|180px]] '''With input from others''', more work has been put into the guide ''[[LII:COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory|COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory]]''. Not only has the rapidly changing state of the [[COVID-19]] [[pandemic]] forced more timely updates to this guide, but also a need to clarify how a [[laboratory]] can get started with COVID-19 and other respiratory testing became obvious. As such, the guide receives an entire new chapter on the considerations surrounding adding such testing [[workflow]] to your lab. Additionally, statistics have been updated, new test methods and findings have been added, citations have been updated and added, and other minor tweaks have been made. As such, the guide has been incremented from version 1.1 to 2.0. Hope you find the new content useful. Stay safe!
[[File:Fig3 Liscouski SciStudGuideLabInfo23.png|left|180px]] '''Are you studying some sort of [[laboratory]]-based science in university?''' How well do your classes address [[laboratory informatics]] topics, particularly in the scope of industrial labs and how they operate outside of academia? If you find the discussion lacking, then his guide by industry veteran Joe Liscouski will be worth a look. In his guide ''[[LII:A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics|A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics]]'', Liscouski presents "an annotated map of the laboratory portion of a technological world, identifying critical points of interest and how they relate to one another, while making recommendations for the reader to learn more." Hope you find it useful! [[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 18:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)


[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 22:24, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
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[[File:Man and Woman Shaking Hands.jpg|left|180px]] '''Do you feel your lab needs [[laboratory informatics]] software but you're not sure how to justify it to management?''' Then [[LII:Justifying_LIMS_Acquisition_and_Deployment_within_Your_Organization|this new guide]] from Joe Liscouski and Shawn Douglas may be just what you need. Justification for a [[laboratory information management system]] (LIMS) or some other lab management solution isn't always straightforward with upper management and critical stakeholders; the process will need to be succinct and relevant, based on organizational goals, economic concerns, and practical realities. This guide will help you—whether you are a lab manager, lab technician, or someone else in the organization with a stake in seeing [[laboratory]] operations improve—understand what a LIMS is, what the alternatives are, what and why acquiring one looks like, and what needs to be considered in putting together a competent and persuasive LIMS project proposal. This guide also includes a handy Microsoft Excel workbook that will help act as a "cheat sheet" for persuading stakeholders to better buy into your vision of LIMS acquisition and deployment within your organization. Enjoy! [[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 16:32, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
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[[File:Innovation & Research Symposium Cisco and Ecole Polytechnique 9-10 April 2018 Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity (40631791164).jpg|left|180px]] '''After some on-again, off-again research,''' we finally had time to put the finishing touches on a [[cybersecurity]] guide. With more [[Laboratory|laboratories]] than ever using networked hardware and software tools to manage data, improve [[workflow]]s, and provide insights, it seemed time to address the importance of laboratories focusing on cybersecurity. We say "laboratories," but to be fair, our completed ''[[LII:Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan|Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan]]'' and its companion piece, ''[[:File:An Example Cybersecurity Plan - Shawn Douglas - v1.0.pdf|An Example Cybersecurity Plan]]'', will undoubtedly be useful to practically any business wanting to take a start at or improve existing cybersecurity planning. The guide provides background to cybersecurity planning, proposes a 10-step process for creating a plan, and offers up a simplified version of security controls from NIST Special Publication 800-53, Rev. 4, tied into our existing [[Book:LIMSpec 2019 R1|LIMSpec]] document. The example plan puts that 10-step process to work in the fictional environmental lab ABC123 Co. We hope you find both documents useful. May your cybersecurity efforts be fruitful!
 
[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 17:02, 24 July 2020 (UTC)
 
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'''The Most Popular Pages section''' has been removed from the front page of LIMSwiki today. For much of its existence, it stood as a fun means to see which pages were receiving the most viewer traffic, while also providing insights into which pages deserved a touch more editing attention. However, in recent years, it has been coopted by others to artificially inflate page views of specific vendor pages, to give those vendors a higher and unjustified ranking. This largely destroyed the original fun and intent of the tool, leaving it largely meaningless. In retrospect, a tool that included the word "popular" was inevitably going to be turned into a popularity contest, which is partially my fault. Alas ...
 
[[User:Shawndouglas|Shawn Douglas]] ([[User talk:Shawndouglas|talk]]) 17:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC)


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November 20, 2023:

Fig3 Liscouski SciStudGuideLabInfo23.png

Are you studying some sort of laboratory-based science in university? How well do your classes address laboratory informatics topics, particularly in the scope of industrial labs and how they operate outside of academia? If you find the discussion lacking, then his guide by industry veteran Joe Liscouski will be worth a look. In his guide A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics, Liscouski presents "an annotated map of the laboratory portion of a technological world, identifying critical points of interest and how they relate to one another, while making recommendations for the reader to learn more." Hope you find it useful! Shawn Douglas (talk) 18:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC)


 

July 26, 2023:

Man and Woman Shaking Hands.jpg

Do you feel your lab needs laboratory informatics software but you're not sure how to justify it to management? Then this new guide from Joe Liscouski and Shawn Douglas may be just what you need. Justification for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) or some other lab management solution isn't always straightforward with upper management and critical stakeholders; the process will need to be succinct and relevant, based on organizational goals, economic concerns, and practical realities. This guide will help you—whether you are a lab manager, lab technician, or someone else in the organization with a stake in seeing laboratory operations improve—understand what a LIMS is, what the alternatives are, what and why acquiring one looks like, and what needs to be considered in putting together a competent and persuasive LIMS project proposal. This guide also includes a handy Microsoft Excel workbook that will help act as a "cheat sheet" for persuading stakeholders to better buy into your vision of LIMS acquisition and deployment within your organization. Enjoy! Shawn Douglas (talk) 16:32, 26 July 2023 (UTC)