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Network!

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Workshops

• Workshop 1: Professional Networking benefits and existing tools

• Workshop 2: Help Seeking – Co-designing your own professional network – Phase 1

• Workshop 3: Help Seeking – Co-designing your own professional network – Phase 2

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Learning Layers Project Consortium

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Project Coordination

Technology Research

Regional Application Clusters

Scaling Partners

Technology Partners

Health Care – Leeds

Construction & Building – Bremen

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Healthcare Cluster

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Co-design activities

Bradford City GP Practices

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Nurses Forum

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Current Situation New network in Bradford City Regular face to face meetings – variable attendance Small number of active members Little communication and sharing between Nurses by email Small number of Nurses in each GP practice

Can lead to feelings of isolation Make it hard to attend training or network meetings (GP practice dependence on Nurses)

Your aims Support and expand this new group – ideally making it self-supporting Improve sharing – questions, knowledge, expertise and concerns/support Explore potential for mentoring within the network Use the group to help support your professional development Strengthen the voice and impact of Nurses in practices – help to be heard

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Practice Managers Network

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Current Situation Well established network in Bradford City Small but effective core group of members Monthly face to face meetings Good use of email to share questions/answers & information Facing common problems

Your aims Expand the group Improve sharing – workload, knowledge, expertise Strengthen the voice and impact of the network within the CCG

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Data Quality Leads

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Current Situation No existing network Hard to find out who does similar role in different practices Not all practices have this post Can feel quite isolated, although likely to be tackling problems

common to all practices Hard to get good practice shared

Possible aims Establish a network Set up sharing – workload, knowledge, expertise

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How can social network technologies support professional networks?

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Social Technologies Today

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Source:http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/the_social_economy

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Social Networking Tools

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64% adult internet users in UK* said they had a social networking profile

* http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/media-literacy/adult-media-lit-13/2013_Adult_ML_Tracker.pdf (OFCOM 2013:4)

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Social / Professional Networking Tools

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Professional Networking Tools

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Main Benefits:Build on and expand your professional networks Get advice or support from others in the network Share the workload Spread knowledge Improve practice

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Workshop 1

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By the end of the workshop, you will have: Created a professional profile Used the tools for building networks Connected with other professionals Ask questions or created/joined discussions Explored the main features of LinkedIn Started to explore and discuss what you would want

from a Help Seeking tool to support your Nurses network

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Workshop 1

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Activities:

Tell us about your current experience: http://goo.gl/ICN1wN

LinkedIn

Give us your feedback on LinkedIn and let us know what you want from the HelpSeeking tool: http://goo.gl/20WD7B

Discussion

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Thank you!Next workshop: 20th May 2014

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