Using Social Media In Healthcare…

..For Animals. There are hundreds of pages on the internet about the benefits of social media in healthcare, the fantastic Patient Opinion site, lets people share their stories of their illness and how they coped with it, to sharing opinions on healthcare services they have used. Some opinions are good and some are bad. The main thing is once [...]

Council Websites The Good The Bad And The Need To Improve

I have been spending some time recently looking at different council websites and the differences between them from the very good to the not so good. The Good I asked Twitter for examples of good council websites and got: http://www.camden.gov.uk/ Beta 1.0 makes good use of pop up menus so you are not clicking through [...]

Fix My Street What If….

I was speaking to Tom Steinberg of My Society earlier this evening at the Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgery and posed the this idea with him. Using the Fix My Street site and the data, what about using push notifications to GPS enabled smart phones to update the site to whether problems have been fixed or not? [...]

What Is A Social Media Surgery

And will I get anything out of it? I’m helping to run the Stoke-on-Trent Social Media Surgeries and a couple of people have asked me, what are they and will they get anything out of them, so in answer to those two questions.. What is a Social Media Surgery? A social media surgery is an informal [...]