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Hi Andy,

 

I appreciate your frustration too, although it may not be so bad here.
It seems that the academic sector is much more open to Web 2.0 than the
the NHS. I know some library services had created library blogs (even
using them for their main site) and have been able to "get away with
it". However, I believe some librarians are a bit apprehensive about
setting up sites independent of IT.

 

I know Andrew Keen in "Cult of the Amateur" is rather disparaging about
the whole Web 2.0 phenomena, but then, as Phil Bradley, has pointed out
you can try and see what works for you and if it doesn't drop it. Here
in the East Midlands I'm trying to encourage our trainers' to set up a
group on LinkedIn (we're currently using Yahoo! Groups), although I
guess there's much more we could be doing. 

 

I am interested to see if NHS Evidence persists with the
MyLibrary/MyUpdate page(s) which NLH developed, as this is the main way
we've introduced Web 2.0 (RSS feeds in particular) to our users and I
still find very useful. I've also used Flickr to circulate photos of our
new work location to colleagues as well. Still there is more we could be
doing. Thankfully, our website is getting a facelift this autumn but how
much we can incorparate the Web 2.0 stuff remains to be seen.

 

Richard

 

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Resource Centre Manager

NHS Nottingham City 

Tel: (0115) 883 4213 (x 34213)

 

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From: Evidence based health (EBH)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Prue, Andy
Sent: 30 July 2009 10:14
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: tweeting

 

Hi Utkarsh

 

'every senior manager I've spoken to seems to be under the perception
that staff would be permanently goofing off if access was allowed.'

 

I've heard that one too, but again don't buy into it. We already have
Web 1.0 (or 0.5 in some cases!!) which has more than enough capacity to
enable 'goofing off', but does current evidence support this behaviour? 

 

Secondly, it seems a tad offensive to apply such a broad brush to the
'anticipated' behaviour of NHS staff. Yes, there will always be the odd
one or two, but surely this could be managed through current systems.

 

I think there is a bottom-up 'change management' issue here. Users are
demanding access to this technology, if its not taken seriously will
they not go elsewhere?!!!

 

Cheers

Andy ;-)

 

Andy Prue
Web Development Librarian
KSS Library & Knowledge Services Development Team,
Calverley House, 55 Calverley Road
Tunbridge Wells, Kent  TN1 2TU

Tel: 01892 - 704246
email: [log in to unmask]   
URL: http://www.ksslibraries.nhs.uk 
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/andyprue  
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From: Evidence based health (EBH)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kulkarni
Utkarsh (NHS Grampian)
Sent: 30 July 2009 09:42
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: tweeting

 

Karen, 

The NHS IT restrictions are a problem that probably won't go away -
every senior manager I've spoken to seems to be under the perception
that staff would be permanently goofing off if access was allowed. And
as you say, IT folk get spooked by the security/virus/worm implications.

To follow a specific topic, the twitter RSS feed may be useful - for
example, we've set up an RSS reader on our obesity portal
(www.obesityportal.org <http://www.obesityportal.org> , still in
development) which picks up the RSS feed that Twitter allows you to
define on your profile. A specific topic could also be defined for a
search RSS. As long as the feed reader is within an "allowed site", you
can at least see what's being tweeted. It's very limitied and far from
perfect even in that limited functionality: you can't tweet out, only
receive, and half a conversation I suppose is no conversation at all.

I wonder if anyone has experience with a Twitter client in the NHS
system? Some NHS IT areas prevent new software installs too!

Utkarsh.

 

Dr Utkarsh Kulkarni

Centre for Obesity Research & Epidemiology

Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

&

NHS Grampian

 

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From: Evidence based health (EBH) [[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ritchie Karen (NHS Quality Improvement Scotland)
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Sent: 30 July 2009 08:30
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: tweeting

Some of us are having problems accessing new communication tools such as
Twitter, Facebook etc because of restrictive IT policies in the
workplace. Have others experienced this or found arguments or ways to
overcome perceived security concerns?

 

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NHS Quality Improvement Scotland

www.nhshealthquality.org

 

 

 

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