I must admit, I finished 2007 a little run down. Never fear, a voyage to my ancestral home has left me recharged and excited about the next few months. If I thought it couldn't get any better, yesterday I inherited an archival history of manual therapy texts. Very cool. Thank you, DR!
I also gave a talk yesterday at the First Annual Physical Therapy Educators Workshop, sponsored by the DPT Consortium of GA. My topic was incorporating Web 2.0 concepts, namely syndicated content and collaborative software into teaching and personal learning. Here is a handout I offered to the audience with some highlights and resources.
A couple nights ago I was meeting with the Jessica King, who designs my blog and is working with the Evidence in Motion blog. She told me that subscribers to the two physical therapy blogs were numerous, but with one problem. Thousands subscribe via e-mail, less than 200 subscribe via the RSS feed. From the reader's perspective, it should be the opposite. I wonder why this is so.
My resolution in 2008 is help figure out why. It will be to offer resources for therapists to 
get more involved in web conversations and, most of all, to encourage more physical therapists to begin blogging. There are hundreds, if not thousands of medical blogs penned by physicians, yet only a tiny few by PTs.
Consider this a call for physical therapists to become
blogger physical therapists. Maybe we could even get a new credential out of it? Take a look at the handout to get us started.
Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, CBPT (certified blogging physical therapist) Yeah, right!
I also gave a talk yesterday at the First Annual Physical Therapy Educators Workshop, sponsored by the DPT Consortium of GA. My topic was incorporating Web 2.0 concepts, namely syndicated content and collaborative software into teaching and personal learning. Here is a handout I offered to the audience with some highlights and resources.
A couple nights ago I was meeting with the Jessica King, who designs my blog and is working with the Evidence in Motion blog. She told me that subscribers to the two physical therapy blogs were numerous, but with one problem. Thousands subscribe via e-mail, less than 200 subscribe via the RSS feed. From the reader's perspective, it should be the opposite. I wonder why this is so.
My resolution in 2008 is help figure out why. It will be to offer resources for therapists to
get more involved in web conversations and, most of all, to encourage more physical therapists to begin blogging. There are hundreds, if not thousands of medical blogs penned by physicians, yet only a tiny few by PTs.
Consider this a call for physical therapists to become blogger physical therapists. Maybe we could even get a new credential out of it? Take a look at the handout to get us started.
Eric Robertson, PT, DPT, CBPT (certified blogging physical therapist) Yeah, right!