It’s not long now until I have to revalidate for the first time and I am trying to be super organised. As my revalidation date is at the start of September I thought it best to get everything sorted this side of the summer. I have always been an overly organised person – when we…
Category: Nursing & Social Media
That will never work !!
I recently asked a question via a Twitter Poll about nurses use of social media: The results didn’t surprise me too much but what did surprise me was some of the tweets i received in response to this poll. What most surprised me were the comments made in relation to using social media to communicate…
Has it really been a year since #WGT16 ?
As we hurtle towards the end of February I have been thinking lots about this time last year and how we were busy plotting, planning, organising and doing in preparation for February 29th and WeGetTogether or #WGT16. And what a day it was! For me it was definitely one of the busiest days of my…
#NonListedButHighlyRecommended NursingTwitterFollows
I like a good list …. in fact I start every day with a to do list, it’s one of the reasons why i still have a paper diary (yes i can hear you gasping!) I like to be able to see clearly what I am doing and it gives me great satisfaction to cross…
New year – old thinking ?
New year is typically a time for reflection and I am afraid to say that I am very much reverting to type with the advent of 2017 …. more by luck than design I have found myself exploring some “old” thinking around social media and nursing. Over the New Year period I have re-discovered two…
Some thoughts on conference Tweeting
It seems that conference season is upon us – and our Twitter stream will soon be full of weird acronym hashtags all ending in 16! It’s tricky to get the Tweeting balance right when you are at conference, you don’t want to tweet too much for fear of boring your followers but at the same…
Everything changes…
I read a really interesting blog post a few days ago by one of my favourite bloggers @parthaskar “Broken?” In this blog Partha asks if Twitter is broken, he remembers a time when “Twitter used to be a milder place, actually a fun place, a place to learn, a place sometimes for support. That world…
Are we ready for social CPD?
It was some 2 years ago now that Calvin Moorley and I wrote for the Journal of Advanced Nursing Using Social Media For Continuous Professional Development and much has changed. Revalidation has been implemented and more and more nurses are engaging professionally via social media. However I think much of this article is still very…
Build it and they will come?
I don’t know who first said “Build it and they will come” I vaguely recall some 90’s movie with aliens and a cornfield but I am not even sure if they were the first to coin the phrase … anyway “Build it and they will come” … what utter nonsense !!! Yet it seems to…
To selfie or not to selfie ….
Selfies at conferences … where to start? Well ever since someone was smart enough to reverse the camera on a smart phone (and in fact before then, though selfie quality was much diminished and you often ended up with a picture of your left ear!) selfies have been a part of our social media spaces. …