The This Week in Mentalists 2013 Awards – The Winners « Mentally Wealthy. The This Week in Mentalists 2013 Awards – The Winners Posted on Updated on It gives me great pleasure to announce the This Week in Mentalists Awards 2013, recognising the best in mental health blogging (and for the first time this year, vlogging).
You can view the results for 2012 here. 2013 was a year in which the weekly This Week in Mentalists blogging roundups stopped running. I don’t think this is because people aren’t writing blogs anymore – far from it; in fact there’s more and more. A few words on how the winners were selected. In addition to the categories provided, the judges were also asked to select a Wildcard Award – a blog that didn’t win their respective category, but which they felt deserved special recognition. The original plan was that in the event of a tie, I would cast a deciding vote. The winnners are as follows: Lived Experience The first category was one that had two joint winners. Recovery Campaigning Informative Carer Student/Academic Helpful Humour Vlog. 2418_DMH_e_book_2_1. Searching the social web during Hurricane Sandy: Challenges, lessons and reflections. Flood waters enter the Long Island Rail Road's West Side Yard Credit: Image by MTA Long Island Rail Road on Flickr.
Some rights reserved. During Hurricane Sandy people flocked to social media platforms to search and share the latest information on the impact of the storm. Similarly journalists were also busy scouring and speaking to communities on social sites, in an effort to gather, validate and push out information. In the days following the storm we spoke to social media and user generated content experts from the Guardian US, Associated Press and Storyful to discuss the challenges which presented themselves when searching the social web during Hurricane Sandy, particularly in relation to events in New York, the lessons it taught them and others and the way it reinforced the role of journalists in verifying information as quickly as possible.
How can the Health and Wellbeing Board in Leeds use Digital and Social Media? #sm4hwb. I was asked to gather a group of people together in Leeds, to talk with my local Health and Wellbeing Board (HWB) members about how digital and social media could help them support the population in meeting health outcomes.
Why did the Health and Wellbeing Board want to know how to use Social and Digital Media? The Health and Wellbeing Board were making visits to many other areas of the sector such as the statutory sector and the voluntary sector, so they were interested in the voices of people with direct lived experience of services, or people offering innovative solutions in this space, whose voices might be drowned out by the big players in a shared event. What happened? I was able to get the wonderful people at Leeds Met Business Services to donate the space for the meeting (Thank you to Katie of QU2 and Old Broadcasting House who arranged this), and set up a free event on Eventbrite to handle the registration. Who came to the Consultation? Our observations The Grabchat Involved … Social media surgery for mental health #smsmhealth. Can Social Media be taught? I have been on the periphery of a few conversations and discussions about the use of social media both for teaching and learning and about use of social media more formally in training and learning.
Some partly alluded to in this post. I am generally of the mind that use of social media are best considered broadly within communication skills and that there may be some forms of guidance that can be offered, mostly in terms of modelling behaviours, it isn’t a subject that either can or should be taught as a distinct subject matter. These are my reasons 1) We are still at the early stages of knowing, learning and understanding the possibilities, format and etiquette of interactions which take place online. A.k.a the POWER of Twitter! Some of my friends – and indeed, if the truth is told, Mr Whose Shoes? Himself, wonder why I am so captivated by Twitter.
It is a ‘no brainer’ …. I find it exciting! Twitter is so fresh and immediate – so easy to “dip into” and learn, so easy to link up with great people across the country – and indeed across the world! #hcsm review- the global edition. Does gaming mess with your head? The neurology infographic. ‘The world hasn’t ended’: what happens when you give all staff access to social media. Many different ways to bring about the apocalypse.
Opensourcing Professional Social Media Principles for Social Work. I’ve been thinking a lot about the development of principles around use of social media for social workers and social care workers in particular over the last few months.
Having been to events and had discussions with doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and users of services that we all provide, I think there are some great models for the College of Social Work to build on and thought I’d try and offer some thoughts up into the field. I’m not an ‘expert’ in this area. I don’t honestly think at the moment there are any experts. On the buses. In the shoes of… Gill’s Mum :) Graphic by New Possibilities According to a report in the paper, free bus passes may end.
This would be a disaster for some people I regularly meet on the bus which they rely on, not just for transport but as a social lifeline. They talk to each other. Some people have no-one else to talk to all day – all week. Fares are not cheap which is no problem for those of us who can afford it but it adds a lot to the price of food. Until recently, the bus ran every hour and I enjoyed being able to choose a time that suited and return when I wanted. The reason for the changes is an amalgamation of several routes to and from Coventry via outlying places in order to make savings. Postscript: Live discussion: how to use social media in housing. Social media can be used to reach and influence large groups of people, boost tenant engagement and provide a platform for sharing best practice among staff. Yet a poll of Guardian housing network members has revealed the vast majority do not think the housing sector is realising its potential.
The ease of communication through social media also allows housing providers to inform residents of changes that may affect them. It helps tenants who cannot attend meetings to take part in a conversation with their landlord, and ensure their voice is heard. Sharing social networks with other housing providers could open the sector up, creating closer links between professionals and encouraging the exchange of advice and ideas. Salma Patel – Healthcare, Participation, Technology » Blog Archive » How to use Twitter for Health Campaigns (Top 10 tips) Why Social Care needs Social Media. … And Why Social Media needs Social Care This week, I was fortunate enough to attend a couple of events as a part of Social Media Week London.
Social Workplace Chat #SWCHAT. Back in April we had our show Enterprise Social Network vs Email where opinion seemed to be divided.
But can an Enterprise Social Networks add value to our day to day business activity or is it just a bit of fun for chatting with our colleagues? Background Reading Show Playback Every Monday we host the LIVE Show "Thru the Firewall" where we have some of the most respected Social Business practioners coming together to discuss the hottest topics around transforming businesses to become social. This same topic was discussed on the LIVE Show via Google+ (also available via our YouTube Channel) the previous Monday and the playpack of the show is embedded below: Questions. JAM TODAY: Social media expressed as doughnuts.
100 more social media statistics for 2012. You may have had the honour of reading one of my previous literary masterpieces, 100 social media statistics for 2012 in January.
It has taken me just one month to collate another 100 social media statistics from countless (reputable) websites and articles (some of which are listed at the bottom of this article). Actually there may not be exactly 100 statistics here, but I figured it was close enough. I am going to aim to create one of these articles each month or so, so we can all keep up to date with the most recent statistics (and you don’t need to read 30 articles to get a full picture… like I did).
If you want to make sure you don’t miss out, you should like my Facebook Page. Actually, you should probably do that anyway. And now, for the statistics: 10 Ways Social Media is Transforming our Culture and World. It’s 2012, and yet I feel more calm about our future than ever before.
The Internet has saved our asses, and we should celebrate. I’ve been on the Web for a long time, but every once in a while I have one of those tremendous moments when I have a mental flashback to these last 20 or so years… It happened today… one of my favorite Adele songs, writ large in a YouTube fan culture spectacular. Someone had pruned the 71 best YouTube covers of the track from the 350,000 or so available. Woven into a mash-up of all the covers in perfect synchrony. What should be included in a #MedEdMOOC? Social Media in Continuing Professional Development.
The Days of "Manager Knows Best" Are Ending - Sujai Hajela. By Sujai Hajela | 10:41 AM February 1, 2012 To get a glimpse of what tomorrow’s young global managers might be like as leaders, take a look at how today’s young people think about communications.
For one thing, they are devoted to connectivity. In a recent survey of more than 2,800 college students and young professionals in 14 countries, Cisco found that more than half said they could not live without the internet, and if forced to choose, two-thirds would opt to have an internet rather than a car. This intense desire to be connected leads to a demand for greater flexibility: Two out of five people said they’d accept a lower-paying job if the position offered greater flexibility on access to social media, the ability to work from where they chose, and choice on the mobile devices they could use on the job.
Tomorrow’s young managers will share these attitudes, and workplaces will inevitably become more flexible. What is the appropriate level of openness? Health Professionals: How Not to Use Social Networks. Increasingly there’s guidance being issued by the various regulators – General Medical Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council etc – on how health and social care professionals should behave on social networking sites. I’m a firm believer that professionals can and should use blogs, Twitter etc in order to facilitate dialogue between the people who work in and use services. I think so long as you follow a certain amount of common sense, it can be done in an ethical and responsible way. This evening I’ve been watching various paramedics risking their registration by talking on Twitter in a way that could get them fired and hauled up before the Health Professions Council.
Untitled. Stay on Top of Your Professional Connections... Ev. A lot of technical people wrinkle up their noses when people suggest they “network,” whether it’s to find a new IT job or to get ahead in their current position. “Networking” sounds like something done insincerely, as though you are selling yourself or trying to hoodwink your contact into giving you something unearned. Yet you “network” all the time; you just don’t call it that. You might call it “hanging out with people who share the same interests I do” or “sharing experiences with that new server software ” but anytime you are visible and communicating, you are creating an impression. It makes sense to ensure that it’s a good impression that, down the road, might benefit your career .
What if you’re shy, though? 1. Thoughts on Achieving Social Media Maturity. 60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom. REVEALED: People write things on Twitter, Media. SANS Security Analytics survey If a tree falls over and no-one tweets about it, will it get picked up by the mainstream media or not? Hierarchies in Social Networks. Can Twitter Ever Have Academic Value? Can anything intellectual be said in 140 characters? The document provides some guidance into what Twitter is, how to setup an account, the kind of styles people adopt and so on.
I'd like to focus on the how part of the paper though. Dragons' Den star under fire over 'vindictive' gym ban. Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne has been accused of behaving in a "vindictive and petty" way after he banned a nurse, who was recovering from cancer, from his health clubs – after she had the audacity to complain to Guardian Money about her treatment by his firm. Bronwen Davies successfully took Bannatyne Fitness to the small claims court, where she won a £164 refund and a similar amount in costs. Twitter and social media guidelines for discussing suicide - One in Four Citizen Journalism. Four Steps to Creating Content for a Social Media Community « Radian6 - Social Media Monitoring and Engagement.
Social Media Measurement 2011: Five Things to Forget and Five Things to Learn « MetricsMan. Growing up Digital: Experts say social media isn't hurting today's teens. People Don’t Buy Things, They Join Things. How Not To Make An Infographic. Editor's blog: local democracy in crisis as councils struggle to trust citizens. Dissecting Twitter: The Social Bridge. Guest post: Baroness Greenfield, junk neuroscience, and the dangers of video games.
WiredSafety is the world's largest online safety and help group. Digizen - Home. More digital communication from the Prime Minister: PM joins Foursquare and LinkedIn. TES link to a lot of resources about Safer Internet Day. 5 Sources for Free Computer Technology Education Online.