The Power in your Pocket
Making Social Media and Online Tech work for us
Just how SoMe am I!!
How big is Social Media?
>1.5 billion users worldwide
15 million Twitter users in UK
24 million Facebook users
80% of those online use SoMe
>73% NHS organisations use Twitter
2011 - $234 million
2012 - $526 million
2013 - $985 million
My “connected” journey
What I use it for
• Learn - Personal Learning Network• Remember - Curate & Store• Create & Share• Connect - Interact and Participate
Lets Start with Twitter
Twitter
• @names• # hashtags• RT• Reply• To follow or not to
follow• Lists• HT• DM
Now Twitter Chats
Evernote
• Versatile• Remember
everything!– Web searches– Photos– Voice memos– text
• Private and public
What else do you want to know?
• Practicalities?• Pitfalls?• how do we “do no harm and give informed
consent”• Ethical and Legal challenge• Capability• contextual - how can we use what we don’t
understand• synthesis - how can we integrate it into
current methods?