A Doctor-Professor answers the old question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way.
Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's
"You need to learn how to exercise mindful deployment of your attention online if you are going to become a critical consumer of digital media; productive use of Twitter or YouTube requires knowledge of who your public is, how your participation meets their needs (and what you get in return), and how memes flow through networked publics. Ultimately, the most important fluency is not in mastering a particular literacy but in being able to put all five of these literacies together into a way of being in digital culture."
"Growing up in a family run care home, Andy Bradley discusses how his experiences with the elderly have helped him to better understand how we can provide compassionate care within our institutions."
"The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, a first-of-its-kind social media center focused on health care, builds on Mayo Clinic's leadership among health care providers in adopting social media tools, which began with podcasting in 2005. Mayo Clinic has the most popular medical provider channel on YouTube and more than 60,000 "followers" on Twitter, as well as an active Facebook page with well over 20,000 connections. With its News Blog, Podcast Blog and Sharing Mayo Clinic, a blog that enables patients and employees to tell their Mayo Clinic stories, Mayo has been a pioneer in hospital blogging. MayoClinic.com, Mayo's consumer health information site, also hosts a dozen blogs on topics ranging from Alzheimer's to The Mayo Clinic Diet."
Is anyone going to AMEE this year? I was still there in prague when this presentation was given last year. there is another clip on Youtube that shows the Malaga bit better, but really it is a little bit like an advert for a resort.
I wonder what function these video clips have. I would rather know about the way the conference will be structured and new ways they might have of working.
Commoncraft make some excellent videos which provide a helpful introduction to many Web 2.0 applications such as RSS feeds, blogging, social networking, wikis etc. These videos are available in YouTube, but Commoncraft are now making them available via their own website under a creative commons licence.