Nursing Times article on my Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness article “Twitter as a tool for delivering improved quality of life for people with chronic conditions”…..

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Article doi: 10.1111/j.1752-9824.2009.01027.x

Here is the SimpleMind mindmap of my presentation from Handheld Learning 2009 created on iPhone (it’s too big to see in this post so I’ve attached it as a link).

SimpleMind is a great free easy to use application which you can then upload to iPhoto – shame it wasn’t really big enough to hand around at the conference round table so I resorted to a paper version.

HHL09 Presentation Mindmap

A nice YouTube video from CommonCraft.com explaining Social Media in Plain English with some lovely animation….

Social Media in Plain English

Source : Andy Black

My article on “Twitter as a tool for delivering improved quality of life for people with chronic conditions” has now been published in the latest edition of the Journal of Nursing and Healthcare of Chronic Illness (Volume 1 Issue 3: September 2009).

The journal is an international peer-reviewed journal for nurses and health care professionals who care for people with chronic illness and research in this area.

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Article doi: 10.1111/j.1752-9824.2009.01027.x

Gartner are suggesting that virtual worlds are about to plunge into a “trough of disillusionment”, lecture podcasts are fast becoming obsolete, but cloud computing will soon be on the “slope of enlightenment” writes Zoe Corbyn in the Times Higher Education.

Difficult to find out how they’ve come to this conclusion without reading the actual report which I don’t have access to.

Times Higher Education Article

Hype Cycle for Education 2009 (you need access to Gartner)

Source : Kip Jones

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Social Networking sites are no longer the preserve of the young according to the latest Market Report from Ofcom the UK communications regulator….

ages 35-54 proportion logging on up 7% to 35%
ages 25-34 proportion logging on up 6% to 46%

Also of interest Twitter now has 2.6 million unique users in the UK whilst Second Life interest has plummeted down 67%.

Daily Telegraph Story

Ofcom Market Report

This handy guide shows students how to get the most out of using the internet and internet technology. Areas covered include: web 2.0 technology (wikis, blogs, Podcasts and RSS) that students may encounter at university, good web practice (netiquette, tagging, online writing) and using external resources (citeulike, Google scholar and del.ici.ous).

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Habitat has provided a perfect case study in how not to use social media with its clumsy attempts to insert popular internet keywords into its promotional Twitter posts writes Joanna Perry….

Retail Week Story

This calls to mind the Cillit Bang blog controversy from 2005.

See also:

Habitat says misuse of Twitter keywords was a mistake

Cillit Bang clanger

Social media on the Internet is empowering, engaging, and educating health care consumers and providers, according to a new report, The Wisdom of Patients: Health Care Meets Online Social Media, published by the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF)……

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Source : www.asahp.org