utilizing online tools for your sig jenny shinsky
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Utilizing Online Tools for Your SIG
Jenny Shinsky
• Virtual Community– Why do we need a Virtual Community (VC)?– How you can use your SIG’s VC
• ONS Membership directory
• ONS Mentoring Program
• 1819Stethoscope
• 1846Anesthesia
• 1920Band-Aid
• 1932Wheelchair
• First used in the 1930’s.
• Prevalent in the 1980s
• A well known household item by the late 1990’s
The History of Computers. About.com. Retrieved May 29, 2008 from http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm
ONS Facts
• 1985: Purchased first computer
• 1996: ONS launched ONS Online (ONS Website)
• Renew Membership• CEUs• Virtual Communities• Mentoring Programs• Profile System• Scrapbook• Webcasts
• Evaluation Center• Purchase ONS Products• Abstract Upload System• Speaker Upload System
• Generation Y: 18 to 26 years old– Spend more time on the Internet than they do
watching television.– Average of 12.2 hours online every week.
• Younger Generation Embracing Technology Like Never Before By Antone Gonsalves, http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/191600666
• E-mail• Instant Messaging• Networking Sites • Social Media• Webcasts• Online classes
• Banking• Shop• Banking• Download Music• Read Newspaper• Watch Movies/TV Shows
• Accessing online resources is extremely valuable
• The best way to reach out is through the Internet.
• Michelle Allen, 2008. Class Is in Session. Associations Now. May 2008 pages 27-40.
• Generation X: 28 to 40 years old
• Not far behind Generation Y in Internet usage
Baby Boomers: 44 to 62 years old
If it's there and you can see it -- it's real.
If it's not there and you can see it -- it's virtual.
If it's not there and you can't see it -- you erased it!
-Anonymous
• Bill Gates, 53
• Co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
• Paul Allen, 55
• Co-founder Microsoft
• Steven Jobs, 53
• Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple
• Tim Berners-Lee, 53
• Inventor of the World Wide Web
• Virtual Community for SIG Leaders
• http://sig.vc.ons.org/– VC Operations Manual – Leadership Documents– Newsletter Documents– Election Materials
• VC for SIG Council
• http://sigcouncil.vc.ons.org/– Workgroups– Composition and Roles– Affirmation of Service– Position Descriptions
ONS Mentoring Program
• Meet nurses with similar interests
• Skill strengthening
• Expand leadership abilities
Online Mentoring
• How it works:– Go to the online mentoring portal at
https://www.3creekmentoring.com/ONS/index.cfm
Online Mentoring
• Mentees• Create a project• Establish relationship with mentor
Online Mentoring
• Mentors• Establish relationship with mentee• Work with mentee on achieving goals and
completing a project
• Progress is tracked online
• Members can participate many times
• Virtual Communities
• ONS Membership Directory
• Main SIG Virtual Community
• SIG Council Virtual Community
• ONS Mentoring Program
"Will the information superhighway
have any rest stops?“
- Anonymous
"I sit looking at this computer screen all day long, day in and day out, week after week, and think: Man, if I could just find the 'on'
switch..."
- Zachary Good
“Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked”
- Jeff Pesis
