1. Blog It!
Enhancing communication and conferencing with
clinical blogging.

2. What’s a Blog?
• Web-log . . . Blog
• “A blog is a web site, where you write stuff on
an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the
top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then
they comment on it or link to it or email you.
Or not.” (from blogger.com)

3. State of the Blog
• Online diaries in early 1990s
• Hosting sites in late 1990’s (LiveJournal, Open
Diary, Blogger)
• Military and news blogging at the turn of the
century
• Currently over 250 million blogs?!?

4. Which Clinicals?
• Community
• Mental Health
• Leadership
• Nurse-Client
• Clinicals with weekly journal assignments
• Can be used for treatment plans*

5. Set Up
• Blogger Wordpress
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSX1Rgm3V3Q
• https://www.blogger.com/start
• Wordpress
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jexUS43sdeQ
• https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?
ref=bigassorangeonleft

6. Let’s Do It!
• 1. www.blogger.com
• 2. Click “Create a Blog”
• 3. Create your account: choose and e-mail account and fill in the data
• 4. Name you blog and pick a url name www.(something).blogspot.com -
check to make sure the name is available
• 5. Choose a blog template that you can edit later
• 6. Write your first post
• 7. Smile - -you are millennial savvy!

7. OMG, What About
HIPAA!!!
• Click “Settings”
• Click “Permissions”
• Click “add authors” and input the student’s e-mail
addresses - they will receive an invitation
• Select only blog authors” or “only people I choose”
under “blog readers” if you want someone to read but
not post
• Refer to ANA Social Media Toolkit:
http://www.nursingworld.org/socialnetworkingtoolkit.a
spx

8. Make it Yours
• Click “Layout”
• Under “page elements”, you can move the content
around and add “gadgets” such as polls, links to
articles, websites or other blogs, and interesting
facts or quotes
• Under “fonts and colors”, you can change the look
of typeface and background
• “Pick a New Template” has more variety and color
choices than the start-up