New Media Medicine: A Social Network for Doctors and MEdical Students [5 Cr3 1100 Paton] - Presentation Transcript
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
New Media Medicine.com
New Media Medicine.com
New Media Medicine.com
New Media Medicine.com
New Media Medicine.com
Health Informatics Forum.com
Health Informatics Forum.com
Comp 113 Summer School
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
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