KT Therapy for the Social Media PhobicWhy you want to be a tweep

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Your hosts

Shelly CoryExecutive Director

Colleen YoungAwareness and Engagement Manager

www.virtualhospice.ca www.portailpalliatif.ca

@VirtualHospice

What is social media?

It is the use of technology combined with social interaction to collaborate, create and share.

Learn

"Simply put, social media has allowed me to access ideas, thoughts and opinions I would never have been able to before."

Prajesh Narendra Chhanabhai, @Zimbarama, PhD Candidate, University of Otago; New Zealand

Connect & Collaborate

"Social media doesn’t just help me in my research, it totally changed the way I interact with collaborators."

Bertalan Meskó, @Berci, Physician, Founder of Webicina.com; Hungary

Mike Evans, @docmikeevans, Family Physician, Founder of Health Design Lab; Canada

Inform & influence

"People use social networking for health. We need to connect, inform and inspire them to affect change."

Knowledge translation

Where do you start?

Your network now

• Who do you connect with?

• Who do you learn from?

• Who or what do you want to influence?

• And why?

What tool is right for you?

Twitter

• Peers and public

• Learn and inform

• Crowd-source information quickly

Gunter Eysenbach, @eysenbach, MD, Senior Scientist, Editor-in-chief & publisher of JMIR; Canada

"Social impact measures complement traditional citation metrics [and can be] a useful and timely metric to measure the uptake of research findings."

Dissemination acceleration

Blogs

• Peers and public

• Articulate what we do and think

• Share opinions

Facebook, Google+

• General public

• Curate reliable information

• Connect with people and their networks

Facebook feedback on Twitter

Social video sharing

• General public

• Educate and inform

LinkedIn

• Professional networks

• Connect with peers

• Join groups and participate in discussions

And so much more…

• Pinterest

• Skype

• Curation tools

• Photosharing

• Wikis

• Quora

• Slideshare

Start small

Set reasonable goals and then…

• Listen and learn.

• Ask and learn.

• Share and learn.

• Inform and learn.

How can social media benefit you?

Where can you get more ideas and help?

Healthcare hashtags

www.symplur.com

• #hpm

• #hpmglobal

• #eolchat

• #meded

• #hcsmca

People to follow to get started

Thank youshelly@virtualhospice.ca

colleen@virtualhospice.ca

@virtualhospice

www.facebook.com/CanadianVirtualHospice

www.virtualhospice.ca www.portailpalliatif.ca