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An experiment in Social Media in Clinical OT practice Growing Together 3- Growing shoots


I’ve posted a couple of blogs about my experimental use of Social Media in Clinical OT practice (see part1 and part2). Today’s post discusses the first foray into the use of Social Media. As I discussed in the first blogs,

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Posted in Digital Inclusion, FlickR, Occupational Therapy, Recovery, Social Inclusion, Social Isolation, Social Media Surgery, Stigma

Social Media Analytics (1) Klout and Algorithims


A short post today about analysing your social media impact. Opinions vary about the usefulness of this, especially since the results are based on aalgorithims that we do not, as end users, have access to. Rumours abound on social media

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Posted in Analytics, Digital Inclusion, Klout, Social Media, Social Media, Web 2.0

Blogs for Breakfast, #blogsforbreakfast at the #loveartsleeds Festival


I am very excited to say that I am a pannelist at Blogs for Breakfast, on Thursday 13th October in Leeds, an event which is part of the Love Arts Leeds Festival. The purpose of this event is to …debate

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Posted in Blogging, Conditions in Mental Health, Digital Inclusion, Google+, Physical disability, QR Codes, Second Life, Social Media, Stigma, Twitter, Uncategorized, Web 2.0

Using Facebook to foster social interaction in older people after acquired brain injury. Anita Hamilton 2011


I have found a great example of how we can use Social Media (in this case, Facebook) to foster social engagement in older adults after acquired brain injury. A.hamilton festival of teaching 2011 View more documents from Anita Hamilton As

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Posted in Acquired brain injury, Digital Inclusion, Evidence based practice, Facebook, Occupational Therapy, Recovery, Social Isolation, Social Media

Google+ has arrived


First of all, let’s get one thing straight. I am very conflicted about Facebook. On the one hand, I dislike their ownership of my content, their constant default privacy settings that are too public and I have to go in

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Posted in Facebook, Google+, Occupational Therapy, Recovery, Reflection, Social Media, Stigma, Web 2.0

Leeds Social Media Surgery #leedssms


 Fantastic night at the second Leeds social media surgery last Tuesday (02/02/10). As usual, learned so much from the fantastic surgeons there, ( including @dysconnection, @dsugden) but as always, for every question answered I have a host of new questions….. Why

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Posted in Digital Inclusion, Leeds, Occupational Therapy, Recovery, Reflection, Social Inclusion, Social Media, Social Media, Social Media Surgery, Society, Web 2.0

Have a look at this guidance


A working group has already been developing the guidance for nhs professionals using social networking sites in their professional practice. Link available here: http://www.library.nhs.uk/KNOWLEDGEMANAGEMENT/ViewResource.aspx?resID=289920 edit: sorry, this link no longer seems to work 24/07/2011 Link provided by Sarah Bodell, who

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Posted in Recovery, Reflection, Second Life, Social Media, Web 2.0
Claireot

I'm an OT called Claire. I write about health, particularly mental health, and also about Social Media and Web 2.0 technology. I am particularly interested where these two fields overlap.
I believe that we all hold the potential for Recovery- let's grow together.

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