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Assess your needs
What do you want to achieve?
Know what's out there
Pros and Cons
Know your audience
Who do you want to connect with?
Manage who you follow
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There are so many tools out there and they are always changing – being digital literate means that you are less phased by changes and able to manipulate tools to your benefit.
technology...
...makes it even easier
- to share
- to co-create
- to collaborate
- to keep up to date on a topic
- to find people
And to disseminate information to a wide variety of audiences
- Group of people you interact with regularly.
- Share common interests.
- Exchange ideas, info and resources.
- Professional or personal.
- Team at work, friends, etc
Personal Learning Network
- Like Linked In but NHS Scotland only
- Overcome blocking issues
- Contained - less worry of saying wrong thing
- Tagging makes it easy to find people/discussions
- For professional networking, less social
- Stay in touch with colleagues
- Create a professional online presence
- Be accurate and descriptive
- Keep photos professional
- Summary like a resume
- Request recommendations from employers
- Connections can be used to gain advice and new opportunities
- Anything you wouldn't want to share with employer or coworkers - leave it out!
Yammer
- Enterprise social networking
- Like Facebook for business
- Use groups to ask questions and have conversations
- Groups can be open or private
LIKE
knowledge
from
experience
Education
Events
Results
Digital and information literate professionals
Whose practice is evidence based
- Subscribe to pages of people/organisations you find valuable
- Interact/start conversations on their posts
- Get info in the same place you check in with friends
- Create 'secret', closed groups for communities of practice
- Use these to interact with group, share files, set up meetings
- Keep separate from personal by editing privacy settings
Getting Started
- Start with Twitter – greatest variety of resources
- Set up a separate work account
- Edit privacy settings if desired
- Check your local social media policy
- Add disclaimer e.g. Opinions are my own
- Follow 10/15 reliable accounts
- Observe. Lurk, Like, Retweet, Tweet!
- Take advantage of #Hashtags
- Take a few minutes in a day (on the train, before bed) and ask a question or answer one
SHARE
personal knowledge
Meetings
social media...
- Microblogging site – 140 characters per “tweet”
- Makes you think about what you want to say
- Easily find and share resources
- Maximise your reach!
- Converse informally or take part in online "twitter chats"
- Click hashtags # to find people/resources of interest, catch up on events you’ve missed
- Use hashtags to join conversations
- Watch who is being retweeted by your reliable accounts
- Don't be afraid to unfollow!
local context
social learning