New Media Medicine: A Social Network for Doctors and MEdical Students [5 Cr3 1100 Paton]

Paton, C. New Media Medicine: A Social Network for Doctors and Medical Students
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Social Networking for Medics Dr Chris Paton BMBS BMedSci Research Fellow: University of Auckland PhD Candidate: University of Otago Director: New Media Medicine Ltd.

Building an Online Community
My Online Communities:
New Media Medicine: 45,000 members, 70,000 visitors per month, 1 million page views per month
Health Informatics Forum: 700 members
University of Otago Web 2.0 Summer School: 36 members

New Media Medicine.com

Health Informatics Forum.com

Comp 113 Summer School

Open Vs Closed
Open communities:
Leverage the power of the network
Need more monitoring and moderation
Closed communities:
Difficult to grow
Less need for monitoring and moderation

Choose the Technology
Run off your own server:
Vbulletin, phpBB, Invision Power Board
Hosted communities:
Ning, Wikispaces, Google Groups

Running your own server
Expensive
Need to have dedicated server management team (24/7/365)
May need more than one server
More customisable

Hosted service
Ning, Wikispaces, Google Groups
Lots of different types of service
Ning seems to be best for building communities
No need for server management (or any knowledge of servers at all!)
Not so customisable
Ownership?

Managing a community
Online communities are composed of real people!
Need to foster a sense of community spirit with rules for what is an isn’t acceptable
Keep to the forum rules (no exceptions)
Recruit moderators from within the community
Moderators should be calm, rational people!

Example Problems
Users arguing with each other
Moderators disagreeing about a course of action
Copyrighted material posted
Libellous material posted
Key is consistency and hard work

Growth / Promotion
Open communities grow faster
Search engines need to be able to index
Advertising helps kick-start things
Welcome new members
Recruit moderators early

Potential for Online Communities
Answer questions from other users
Contribute to MCQ bank
Contribute Videos or other learning objects
Rate, tag and comment on learning objects

Trends
Hosted Services
Mash-ups
Integration (e.g log-in)

More Information
Email: c.paton@auckland.ac.nz
http://chrispaton.org
http://www.auckland.ac.nz/nihi/
http://www.hein.otago.ac.nz
http://www.newmediamedicine.com
http://www.healthinformaticsforum.com

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