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

peterjmurray@gmail.com

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