Nurses and the Web

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Nurses and the Web: Staking Out Your Territory as an Expert in Health Care Christine Gorman American Journal of Nursing Conference Oct. 6, 2009 Chicago

WEB SITES

Christine on the web:

www.cgormanhealth.com

www.globalhealthreport.com

www.twitter.com/cgorman

Today’s talk available at

www.slideshare.net/cgormanhealth/

www.globalhealthreport.com

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INFLUENCES

Yochai Benkler – Harvard

Mindy McAdams – University of Florida

Persephone Miel – Internews

Clay Shirky – NYU

Matt Thompson – University of Missouri

Michael Wesch – Kansas State University

Ethan Zuckerman – Harvard

Literary Heroes Mark Twain Upton Sinclair

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ADVERTISING INEFFECIENCY Paid For A Lot of Great Journalism Iraqi Vets Walter Reed Hospital Melamine contamination Secret CIA Prisons Hurricane Katrina Pension Abuses Housing Discrimination

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Familiar Lamentations Nursing community is fragmented Lots of responsibility but little power Nurses are not utilized to their maximum potential General public does not understand what nurses do

BASICS How will this help me? Are my friends or heroes here, too? Is it easy? Is it fun?

ORGANIZING PEOPLE Groups are easy to join and to leave Collaboration still takes time and energy Who do you know? Diversity diminishes groupthink Watch out for spammers, viruses, porn, hateniks

ORGANIZING INFORMATION Context Crowd-sourcing Structured data Visualizing patterns

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