Here is the presentation to support a workshop that I ran for health professionals on how to use Twitter for personal and professional networking, learning and collaboration, at the 2012 Breathing New Life conference in Melbourne. Workshop program can be found here: http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/twitter-workshop-for-health.html
Workshop for health professionals: How to use Twitter for connecting & collaborating
1. How to use
Twitter for
connecting &
collaborating
Sarah Stewart 2012
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2. Plan for today
• Set the scene
• Basic “how to”
• Have a play
• Advanced “how to”
• How to use Twitter professionally
• Conclusion
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workshop-for-health.html
3. Setting the scene
• What do you already know about Twitter?
• How do you use Twitter, if at all?
• Any particular questions you have, or
things you want to know?
5. The way we learn, teach,
work, play and communicate
is changing
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6. “…gone are the days when
the family turned to the
“encyclopedia Britannica” for
information. My family’s
“bookcase” is the family
computer - Google, itunes,
online auctions, research,
websites and blogs.”
Tania, midwife
40. Basic “how to”
* Set up account
* Fill in your profile
* Write a tweet or two
* Find people to follow
* How to reply to someone
* How to send a direct message
* How to re-tweet a message
* How to send a url in a tweet
41. Having a play
Hospital midwife
Student midwife
Community midwife
Research midwife
Pregnant woman
New mum
Obstetrician
Birth unit manager
Medical student
42. Advanced “how to”
*Hashtags
*Attending Twitter events eg #phdchat,
#RNchat, #HCSMANZ
*Managing Twitter with tools such as
Echofon or Tweetdeck
*Twitter on your mobile phone
43. How to use Twitter
professionally?
What do you think are the main issues?
How do you think we can manage these
issues?
44. Conclusion:
10 top tips for using Twitter
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45. Be prepared
to give time
to
networking
and don't
expect
things to
happen over
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46. Be consistent about how you
'brand' yourself
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Information changing all the time. Very important to stay up to date, but that can be difficult , especially when you are geographically isolated & do not have access to libraries – paper journal subscriptions can be very expensive.
Free tools - Very important in this day & age of financial stress, increase in price of petrol & flights.
Web conferences - Very important in this day & age of financial stress, increase in price of petrol & flights. Free access.
People can manage their own learning to suit their particular needs & requirements.
Lots of literature says that staff, especially new grads, people new to jobs/organizations, & people returning to work benefit from mentoring.
Computer literacy: knowledge and ability to use computers and technology efficiently (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_literacy) Digital literacy: ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically
Access to broadband which supports a lot of social networking tools. Computers need to be freely available at work, and people made to feel that they can use them – may be issues to privacy.
Particular issue for people working in health & social professions. Need to adhere to professional and legal requirements, particularly about patient information. Also, implications for worker/employer relationship.
Institution/employer restrict tools that can be used by employees
People think that tools like youtube and facebook are frivolous tools just for the young.
Attitudes that learning is something that is ‘delivered’ in a ‘face-to-face context’ – that employers are responsible for providing education & learning. Education is something that is only done to fulfil professional requirements. Wont do it unless employer pays for it & provides the time.
Just because an article hasn’t been processed through a blind, peer reveiwed paper journal, doesn’t mean that it is not credible information. Look at wikipedia as example.