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Peter Murray's contribution to the bloggers panel at Medicine 2.0, Sept 2008TRANSCRIPT
Collaborative blogging forhealth informatics professional development
Peter J. Murray
Peter J. Murray
Director and Founding Fellow, CHIRAD, UK
Vice President Strategic Planning, IMIA
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With thanks to other colleagues:
Margaret MaagKarl ØyriRod Ward
Scott ErdleyBill Perry
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SuccessesGood feedback; hits and readers;good evaluation of value
Collaborative modelTo get interaction,several perspectives, spread workload – provide professional development
Health/nursing informatics eventsmedinfo2004, medinfo2007, NI2006, MIE2005, MIE2006, HISA2008,SINI, Rutgers, etc
'Failures'Not as much interaction as we would have liked - why?
Added interactionTalkr, photos, mobile blogging, ...
Where did we start?
It's all Rod Ward's fault
There was online reporting (and life) before blogs, Google, Web 2.0 etc
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NI2000 - Auckland, New Zealand
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NI2003 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 15, 2004 - 700 posts - >35 contributors
Informaticopia - http://www.rodspace.co.uk/blog/blogger.html
Medinfo2004
Sept 2004,San Francisco
Rod-style web report
PLUS
blog
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Havana, CUBA 2007Geneva, SWITZERLAND 2005
Baltimore, USA 2005-08
Vienna, AUSTRIA 2007
Seoul, KOREA 2006
Harrogate, UK 2005-07San Francisco, USA 2004, 2007
Maastricht, NETHERLANDS 2006
Regensburg, GERMANY 2007
Goteborg, SWEDEN 2008
Edinburgh, UK 2006
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA 2007
Durban, SOUTH AFRICA 2008
Toronto, CANADA 2006
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Purposely collaborative model – 'on-the-fly', 'real-time' blogging Professional development and virtual participation
Tried different blogging software (b2evolution, Blogger,Sys9, Tiki-wiki ...)
Settled on WordPress (for the moment - plug-ins)
Core 'krew' of contributors – welcome others
In practice, usually 2-3 main contributors per event
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text-to-speech -> podcast
Plug-ins:
Asides (like Twitter)Spam-karma
Photos:
within postsPicasa
ClustrMap
Feedjit
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Live blogging
Twitter-like
Multiple contributors
Add others 'on the fly'
Replayable archive
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Blogs for virtual conference participation
What we had hoped for:
- lots of people wanting to post items
- lots of comments
- lots of readers
- demonstration of the collaborative model working.
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Blogs for virtual conference participation
What we found:
- many promised but few delivered- the principal providers were the main bloggers
- interaction is lower than hoped for
- reminders to people help in readership levels.
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Blogs, interaction and participation – some evaluation data and lessons learned
Generally felt to be a useful adjunct to eventsMost felt it was easy to useShould be available post-event (archive)
Must be easy to access and participate- eg wireless – or people won't post during the event
Reminders boost readership
RSS feeds to email/browser
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Conference blogs
- on-the-fly reportage or analysis?
- time and collaboration elements make it different from much other blogging
- we believe it is worth doing, and valuable to those who read and contribute
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Further information and contact(and any updated version of presentation)
www.hi-blogs.info
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