nurses guide to using twitter

The #NurseUK Guide To Using Twitter

Listen – Ask – Share

Building A Nurse Community

Why would nurses use twitter?

If they need knowledge on a subject

Or they have information to share

To meet PREP requirementsMaybe to communicate with other nurses

(find out more about nurse communities in social media here)

Twitter allows nurses to share

conversations and information

within a community.

Within twitter Nurses

can also share links to

other social media –

blogs, youtube,

podcasts etc

With Twitter you can “follow”

anyone, anyone can share

and everyone can see each other.

Sign up via www.twitter.com

You can then add some

information about yourself

And a brief biography:

Then you can start tweeting !

And searching for people you want to

follow, or a topic that interests you:

Who should I follow?

This will depend on your interest, as

nurses think about your interest, the

organisations and bodies that offer us

information and support.

Is there news that interest you? Search

and follow those talking about it, share

your views with them; meet and create

new contacts and friends.

And follow !!

Who’ll follow me?

If you have or share interesting

information you’ll be followed.

Being part of a community adds

value, no matter how popular, or

how many followers you have.

Don’t be competitive, just add value.

But to really see the whole picture

download and use:

Or

Via

www.tweetdeck.com

www.hootsuite.com

(other tools available)

These tools allow you :

• to have open or live searches eg #nurseuk, NursingTimes, NMC

• To listen to what everyone is talking about, follow live chats, or unconnected comments.

• To share with everyone – using #nurseuk to reach other nurses.

Tweetdeck:

Has panels separating conversations and is installed on your computer/smartphone.

Hootsuite:

Is similar to tweetdeck, but lives on theInternet, so is wherever you’re online.(There are other differences too.)

The two tools are very similar andonce you can use one you canuse the other, so for simplicity we will just look at Tweetdeck.

All you need to do is downloadTweetdeck, for free, having registered on twitter, then…

Open your eyes!

You can tweet via tweetdeck, byclicking on compose update:

You can search by clicking on the+ symbol to add a column:

.. this opens a window to search

This search adds a column to yourTweetdeck, separating conversations:

You can add as many columns asyou like:

About any subject.

Tools like tweetdeck and hootsuiteallow nurses to have permanentwindows to information.

This allows nurses to listen, to askand to share all at the same time.

What information can we share?

!ANYTHING !

A lot of nursing organisations

already have some

valuable

info on their

websites.

It just needs signposting in the

right direction using #nurseuk to

make best use of twitter communities.

But all nurses have valuableknowledge to share too…

If you see an interesting tweet youcan re tweet it - hover over the pictureof the tweeter & click retweet:

And follow them.

Nurses can add links to their tweets to all sorts of other media: websitesblogs, youtube,podcasts,forums, portalsmessage boardsand so much more …

Nurses can not only share information to help our community, but also create it too!

Are you doing some research? Working on some CPD?

Why not put your findings on a blog?

So you can tell the community about it, and we can share it around, for others that will find it useful.

How do you create content?

Why not create a blog?

Here’s my blog, they are free and easy to set up, even I did it!

http://agencynurseuk.blogspot.com

My next presentation will be on“blogging nurses”, due late July 2011.

Twitter is nothing short

of a global phenomena,

giving us all global,

total access to

knowledge…

…The world is yours.

It should be remembered that Twitter is a public forum and should be treated as such.

Remember to be professional and confidential at all times.

NMC guidance can be found here, thisshould be understood and followed.

Don’t forget that an important partof any communication is listeningand the same goes for twitter.

Listen to what others are sayingand help them out – it isn’t allabout talking – it’s about sharing.

Anything that you find interesting

will be of interest to someone else ...

In the #nurseuk community

everyone adds value!

SO…get tweeting, get all you canfrom our community…

Give what you can to the community,either by sharing content, or creating it.

Follow and ask me more @agencynurseSearch and enjoy #nurseuk

But don’t do nothing!

Lets start to…

Listen – Ask – Share

with

Using #nurseuk

Thank you Thank you for viewing this slide deck

By Teresa Chinn

An ordinary RNAn agency nurse

A Blogger &Tweeter

06/2011

http://www.agencynurseuk.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/#!/agencynurse

If you would like to know more or have this presented in person please contact me @agencynurse