Today I met with TimedRight, a group that has created a social networking site (of sorts) for the medical community. With them we will be creating a section for our members to use discussion boards, present/discuss case studies, continue with self-direct CME as well as interact with other medical specialties in open forum areas.
Our hope is to use this site to engage our members before the conference in June, during the conference and after the conference to poll them about the sessions and what take away messages were most useful to them.
The site itself is not unlike AlgonquinSocialMedia.Ning.com but not quite as social media heavy. You create a profile, join groups, start discussions. You can post documents or meeting minutes for circulation within a committee. I'm pretty sure you can even link your twitter feed.
What I'm not sure about is whether our members will use a site like this. As medical specialists their time is already quite tied up between seeing patients, maintaining their certification (CME), doing rounds, and journal study. Do they have time to join another networking site? Will they want to?
At what point do we say "enough is enough" and disconnect or go offline? For me that's right about now, it's been a long day.
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April 19, 2011
January 23, 2011
What have I done....?
I'm not sure what I've gotten myself into with these courses - I have a feeling it's going to be all too much.
Never have a taken a course which is entirely online, yet this term I decided to sign up for three?!?!?! Not only am I taking three online courses but they are all entirely focused on social media and creating an all-consuming online presence. Blogs, twitters, discussion boards, endless and endless commenting. Web 2.0 is the brain-child of people who are forever wanting to have their two cents counted without ever really talking to anyone while continually amassing more and more "friends".
I can totally see the benefit of social media for businesses or organizations and through the assigned readings/lessons I'm seeing specifically how it could be of use for the organization I work for. But the course requirement to maintain an online presence via the Algonquin Social Media site is excruciating. I would much rather spend my time, especially my weekends, disconnected from the computer I sit facing Monday through Friday than constantly updating cyberspace on my day-to-day.
I know there is something to be said for the practice of doing but there is also something to be said for living life. To being disconnected from the laptop, blackberry, iphone. To going silent on twitter, facebook, skype, myspace and the blogsphere. More and more society is consumed with the number of cyber "friends" and "followers" rather than actual friends and family. For a time, I was constantly blogging and I had "friends" all over North America whom I'd never actually spoken to but spending all that time on the computer took me away from the people who were actually in my life.
But, for the sake of these courses I'll be part of the social experiment.....uhh experience and write a blog, update my twitter, share videos on youtube, leave my two cents in discussion forums and keep all of cyberspace aware of my daily play by play. Although I am certain I will fall short when it comes to the sheer volume of these updates compared to other classmates.
Onward though I charge.
Never have a taken a course which is entirely online, yet this term I decided to sign up for three?!?!?! Not only am I taking three online courses but they are all entirely focused on social media and creating an all-consuming online presence. Blogs, twitters, discussion boards, endless and endless commenting. Web 2.0 is the brain-child of people who are forever wanting to have their two cents counted without ever really talking to anyone while continually amassing more and more "friends".
I can totally see the benefit of social media for businesses or organizations and through the assigned readings/lessons I'm seeing specifically how it could be of use for the organization I work for. But the course requirement to maintain an online presence via the Algonquin Social Media site is excruciating. I would much rather spend my time, especially my weekends, disconnected from the computer I sit facing Monday through Friday than constantly updating cyberspace on my day-to-day.
I know there is something to be said for the practice of doing but there is also something to be said for living life. To being disconnected from the laptop, blackberry, iphone. To going silent on twitter, facebook, skype, myspace and the blogsphere. More and more society is consumed with the number of cyber "friends" and "followers" rather than actual friends and family. For a time, I was constantly blogging and I had "friends" all over North America whom I'd never actually spoken to but spending all that time on the computer took me away from the people who were actually in my life.
But, for the sake of these courses I'll be part of the social experiment.....uhh experience and write a blog, update my twitter, share videos on youtube, leave my two cents in discussion forums and keep all of cyberspace aware of my daily play by play. Although I am certain I will fall short when it comes to the sheer volume of these updates compared to other classmates.
Onward though I charge.
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