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Social Networking to Enable KT and Healthcare Improvement
The concept of social networks is increasingly becoming a tool to communicate and share resources and thoughts. I am still very much still navigating the tools that are available on sites such as this, and I am trying to see a fit in my day-to-day life. Here are some questions that I am looking to resolve:
How does it facilitate communication?
Is it user friendly enough to improve knowledge translation in Healthcare?
How can it facilitate KT?
Comments (2)
Noreen Kamal2 months ago
Interesting Stephen. Thanks for the comment. So in the sphere of academics we can have professors with their pages focused on their research domains, which can then be share by individuals (other people conducting research in this area) and by groups (this can be research groups and centres).
However, I still find the user interface requiring some level of tech savvy. How do we engage those that are not tuned into the on-line world?
Steve Thompson2 months ago
I think one of the major strengths of social networking is that it facilitates both direct communications (wall-to-wall messages, direct emails, etc) plus a host of indirect person-to-person and person-to-group communications like status updates, activity stream updates, personal publishing, etc. Standard community tools don't have such a strong focus on the individual and therefore can't offer the same scope of communication techniques.
