I don’t know where this blog belongs but I know I have to share it so please forgive me as it’s not my usual subject matter. Today was perhaps one of the saddest days of my life. Today I walked into a beautiful garden full of toys that will never be played with. Today I…
5 ways to get more followers …or not!
This week saw @WeNurses hit 7000 followers which is some achievement considering this one Tweeting nurse started off just looking for one other nurse to chat with. The reason 7000 is so important is that its 1% of the UK nursing population so it’s a number that has become a little bit of a milestone…
Testing, testing..
xxx On Thursday this week I got up very early and trundled off to London for the CCIO Annual Nursing conference. The conference had lots of great speakers but one speaker stood out for me: xxx xxxx Sarah Amani is a mental health nurse turned manager and I have been following her on Twitter and…
To Schedule or not to schedule …
I spend a lot of time lurking on Twitter, it’s amazing what you can learn by just listening (though yes technically it is watching as those IT boffins haven’t invented the “read aloud” option for Twitter yet!) It was whilst I was listening the other day that I came across a scheduled tweet that…
A telephone, a time machine and redefining privacy
In my last blog “Not a serious means of communication” I quoted an internal memo sent by Western Union in 1876 who notoriously stated about the telephone “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” x Whilst reading around…
Not a serious means of communication…
It “has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” And “is inherently of no value to us” These words were sent in an internal memo in 1876 by Western Union about the telephone but despite Western Unions opinion and thanks to those that had a little courage we now live…
A Multi Media Nurses Day
Sunday 12th May was International Nurses Day and the online #nursecommunity came together and shared. The nursing community has gone from one tweeting nurse to over 6000 proud and passionate nurses and this pride and passion shone through on Sunday. Now I could go on … or I could just show you what happened ……
Something magical
I have been thinking a lot this week about nurse community – Sunday being International Nurses Day WeNurses are hosting a Nursing History Twitter Share-a-thon and photos showing our proud nursing history and blogs telling our own nursing stories are being shared already. I have been so very touched by everything being shared that I…
Twitter Groupthink .. and a few questions
Share with a Tweet A few months ago I had a conversation with someone and was dismayed when they said that nurses on Twitter are so agreeable that you never get a true representation of thoughts and that we had to beware of “groupthink” Having not heard the term “groupthink” before I turned to my…
Can Twitter change culture ?
Share with a Tweet Recently my attention was brought to the Government’s response to the Francis report one of my Twitter followers pointed out that #WeNurses and #OTalk are name checked in the document, of course I immediately re checked the document having missed it when I first read it … sure enough both Twitter…