I just want to try to open a discussion with the list about where
GP-UK as an entity is going.
Statement of interest : I'm still here since qualification as a dr in
1987, so clearly there's something valued in it for me.
There's a handful of people on the list I've met face to face once or
twice, that was early on, putting faces to some key names improved the
list experience for me. There's (at least) a couple of early
participants I miss, in exactly the same way I miss some face to face
relationships. There's a lot of old timers I "feel" I know on some
level.
Back in the day the internet was new, we were on dial up, and email,
listserv, and irc was cutting edge, but times move on and my 21 year
old son and 23 year old registrar have never heard of mail lists.
There's also an issue of visibility/marketing. I believe as a list
both membership numbers and postings we are on a shrinking trend, I'm
not aware of any plan to increase participation/visibility which
implies a decreasing spiral until we disappear up our own orifice and
Tref is the last man standing. If we think this thing has value we
should consider promoting it.
I think we need to consider de-camping to something that is currently
more mainstream like Facebook, or Google groups. If we think the GP-UK
"experience" can offer something positive to others we need to get off
our arse and and make it so.
For me GP-UK is triangulation, sanity checks, peer support, canny
tactics, battle hardened colleagues, tapping into experience,
mentoring, MDTs, interdisciplinary relationships, sounding boards,
networking, cynicism, and that strange oddity e "friendship".
Do we / should we care? and if so, then what to do?
Saul
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