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Talking about blogging with bloggers #vcept

Tue July 19, 2016

I’m excited that on Thursday I’ll get to meet a bunch of illness (health) bloggers that I have followed for some time (e.g. Marie Ennis O’Connor (https://journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/), Beth Gainer (http://bethgainer.com/), Caroline Frankovich Ronten (http://carolinemfr.blogspot.ca/), Britni Brown O’Donnell (https://bestliaryouknow.wordpress.com/), Alicia Staley (http://www.awesomecancersurvivor.com/), Terri Coutee (http://diepcjourney.com/), and Scott Johnston (https://scottx5.wordpress.com/) . I’ll be meeting them virtually, but synchronously using Google Hangouts on Air video chat. We’ll be talking about why we blog as part of a new project I’m working on with Virtually Connecting.

If you are curious about why we chose to blog, you can watch the hangout from the Virtually Connecting YouTube channel embedded in the event announcement: http://virtuallyconnecting.org/announcements/making-the-private-public-why-we-chose-to-blog-a-vcept-discussion/

I hope to be hosting more of these discussions over the next year or so, exploring the digital health literacies used by ePatients. If you have a topic you want us to talk about or you want to participant in a discussion, leave me a comment or note.
Virtually Connecting + ePatients #vcept

Mon June 20, 2016

As some of you know one of the things I do is called Virtually Connecting. It started out as a fun thing to do with a friend and has since blossomed into a movement that has introduced me to many amazing people who I know consider close friends. So far VC has mostly focused on conversations occurring with people at Educational Technology conferences. Myself and one of my new VC friends, Susan Adams, are trying to figure out how we can bring the Virtually Connecting idea/platform into the ePatient space. Our first step will be a conversation taking place Wednesday morning. Aligning with the Virtually Connecting process, the session will be live streamed and recorded on YouTube. The launch session, which is “just a conversation” is open to anyone (we have 10 spots in the hangout, there are a few left). If you are interested, for more information please see http://virtuallyconnecting.org/vc_movement/vc-epatient-launch-hangout/.

Feature image by Mike Russell used under CC license.

Tag: #vcept

Talking about blogging with bloggers #vcept

Virtually Connecting + ePatients #vcept