New Media Medicine: A Social Network for Doctors and MEdical Students [5 Cr3 1100 Paton]
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Transcript of 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
• This slideshow, presented at Medicine 2.0’08, Sept 4/5th, 2008, in Toronto, was uploaded on behalf of the presenter by the Medicine 2.0 team
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Social Networking for Medics
Dr Chris Paton BMBS BMedSci
Research Fellow: University of AucklandPhD Candidate: University of OtagoDirector: 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
• 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: [email protected]• http://chrispaton.org• http://www.auckland.ac.nz/nihi/• http://www.hein.otago.ac.nz• http://www.newmediamedicine.com• http://www.healthinformaticsforum.com