{"id":302,"date":"2012-05-24T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-05-24T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:27:28","slug":"social-workers-using-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2012\/05\/24\/social-workers-using-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Social workers get into social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycare.co.uk\/blogs\/mental-health\/\">Mad World<\/a>\u00a0is a great\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycare.co.uk\">Community Care<\/a>\u00a0blog from\u00a0Andy McNicoll (Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/andymcnicoll\">@andymcnicoll<\/a>)\u00a0highlighting the latest research, policy and debate about all things mental health.<\/p>\n<p>In his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycare.co.uk\/blogs\/mental-health\/2012\/05\/the-dos-and-donts-for-social-w.html\">latest post<\/a>\u00a0Andy notes that whether through\u00a0forums,\u00a0Facebook\u00a0or\u00a0Twitter, more and more social workers are using social networks to help their day to day practice. But what should you be wary of when posting online? \u00a0At ComCare Live (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23cclive\">#cclive<\/a>) he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycare.co.uk\/blogs\/mental-health\/2012\/05\/the-dos-and-donts-for-social-w.html\">videoed two social workers<\/a> (Victoria Hart and Helen Roberts) talking about the usefulness of social media and offering their top tips. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a taster:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter, blogs, the <a href=\"https:\/\/knowledgehub.local.gov.uk\/\">Knowledge Hub<\/a>: all great ways of finding research information,\u00a0particularly from service users&#8217; perspectives.<\/li>\n<li>Practice with common sense, just as you do daily in your job.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re a professional so don&#8217;t &#8216;friend&#8217; service users &#8211; it can blur boundaries.<\/li>\n<li>You sign up to codes of practice and these don&#8217;t go away in whatever media you communicate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycare.co.uk\/blogs\/mental-health\/2012\/05\/the-dos-and-donts-for-social-w.html\">Watch Victoria and Helen<\/a> and give it a try.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad World\u00a0is a great\u00a0Community Care\u00a0blog from\u00a0Andy McNicoll (Twitter\u00a0@andymcnicoll)\u00a0highlighting the latest research, policy and debate about all things mental health. In his\u00a0latest post\u00a0Andy notes that whether through\u00a0forums,\u00a0Facebook\u00a0or\u00a0Twitter, more and more social workers are using social networks to help their day to day practice. But what should you be wary of when posting online? \u00a0At ComCare Live&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/2012\/05\/24\/social-workers-using-social-media\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social workers get into social media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/socialmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}