Thank you very much to all who contributed posts to Week 9. Caring emerged as a strong theme this week, both as caring for people and caring about doing things. I was particularly interested in Adrienne McDermid-Thomas’s post about art therapy. My…
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A, B, C – Art, bubbles, carers
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Posted in communicating, culture, gender, learning, mental health, patient care, public relations, teaching, therapy, visual arts
Posted in communicating, culture, gender, learning, mental health, patient care, public relations, teaching, therapy, visual arts
Considering collections, communicating, clutter
I can’t resist a little alliteration. This week’s title comes from Louise Atkinson’s post about considering her work for her PhD and describing her practice as an artist collector; Kevin McGinley’s contribution to the new Taysidehealth blog on communication between members…
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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, animals, charitable trusts, communicating, digital technology, family, fine art, health, health services, libraries, literature, patient care, photography, public sector, research, working practices
Jings, crivvens and help my blog!
There’s a very interesting debate taking place on the Ayrshire Health Blog on the value of blogging. This week we have Roger Watson who replies to comments made previously that there is little value in blogging. Roger argues that blogging is…
Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, blogging, debates, Health, scholarships, writing
Posted in blogging, communicating, health, health services, leadership, social media
Posted in blogging, communicating, health, health services, leadership, social media
Serious selfies, spring, and sensations
Thank you very much to all the contributors to Week 12’s 15 posts. Since I am behind on summaries, I hope that this brief summary will be enough to lead you to explore these posts. I found them all well worth…
Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, modern architecture, NHS, NHSS, nurse, Old photos, selfie, spring, Super Metroid, unselfie, Wordpress
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, architecture, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, leadership, learning, local government, management, natural environment, politics, public relations, setting goals, social care, social media, society, storm, universities, working practices
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Leaving, changing, starting, springing
Despite the date on this summary, I am writing it a month after it should have been written (I have been very busy, mostly with voluntary work for a community group), so I will attempt the briefest summary I have written…
Tagged with: Allied Health Professionals, Ayrshire Health Blog, National Health Service, NHS, NHSS, spring
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, horticulture, leadership, local government, management, painting drawing, photography, public relations, setting goals, social media, weather, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, communicating, communities, digital games, health, health services, horticulture, leadership, local government, management, painting drawing, photography, public relations, setting goals, social media, weather, working practices
Love, love, love – and some leadership
All together now… It was Valentine’s Day the day after Weekly Blog Club’s Week 6 ended, and the posts of the week anticipated it with lots of love in the air. Mark Wood wrote about his love of photography that…
Tagged with: Ayrshire Health Blog, clinical practice, Dumfries and Galloway Health blog, dyslexia, National Health Service, NHS, NHS Scotland, NHSS, River Severn, romance, valentine's day
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, beaches, blogging, charitable trusts, communicating, communities, construction industry, floods, health, humanity, leadership, literature, medical practice, mental health, natural environment, patient care, photography, public sector, relationship, schools, social media, storm, Third sector, working practices
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Getting personal, explaining dementia, and paper in art
We had 11 contributions for Week 5, with three themes emerging during the week: health issues, using social media in the public sector, and art. Gina Alexander returned to the @dghealth (Dumfries and Galloway Health) blog with Take a deep breath. I was…
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The future, revealing selves, and the NHS Hack Day
Thanks very much to the fabulous Kate Bentham for looking after Weekly Blog Club in Week 3 and writing a great summary for it. Thank goodness she covered Week 3 and not Week 4. I would have felt a bit…
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Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, conferences, digital technology, disability, health, health services, ideas/innovation, medical practice, music, patient care, public relations, social media, unconferences, working practices
Posted in #WeeklyBlogClub summary, blogging, conferences, digital technology, disability, health, health services, ideas/innovation, medical practice, music, patient care, public relations, social media, unconferences, working practices
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