The Power in your Pocket

Making Social Media and Online Tech work for us

Just how SoMe am I!!

How big is Social Media?

>1.5 billion users worldwide

15 million Twitter users in UK

24 million Facebook users

80% of those online use SoMe

>73% NHS organisations use Twitter

2011 - $234 million

2012 - $526 million

2013 - $985 million

My “connected” journey

What I use it for

• Learn - Personal Learning Network• Remember - Curate & Store• Create & Share• Connect - Interact and Participate

Today

Lets Start with Twitter

Twitter

• @names• # hashtags• RT• Reply• To follow or not to

follow• Lists• HT• DM

Now Twitter Chats

Tell a story

Flow

Evernote

• Versatile• Remember

everything!– Web searches– Photos– Voice memos– text

• Private and public

Google+

What else do you want to know?

• Practicalities?• Pitfalls?• how do we “do no harm and give informed

consent”• Ethical and Legal challenge• Capability• contextual - how can we use what we don’t

understand• synthesis - how can we integrate it into

current methods?