A few pioneers at the intersection of social media and nephrology have banded together to create an internship in social media. The founding members of the loosely coordinated Nephrology Social Media Collective (logo pending, but it should be pretty cool) are:
- Myself
- Swapnil Hiremath, co-founder and brain child of NephJC
- Matt Sparks, savior of Renal Fellow Network and co-creator of NephMadness
- Kenar Jhaveri, blogger at NephronPower and editor of AJKDblog
- Paul Phelan, contributor to NephJC, Renal Fellow Network and AJKDblog
- Jordan Weinstein, creator of UKidney
- Edgar Lerma, creator of #NephPearls hashtag and serial author
The idea behind the internship is to give guidance to doctors or students who want to become experts in social media. There are a number of different techniques and strategies in social media and we will provide the intern an opportunity to work with these techniques first hand. Projects that will be open to the interns include:
- NephMadness
- NephJC
- AJKDblog
- Renal Fellow Network
- Research
- UKidney
- DreamRCT
Technologies that the intern will be exposed to include:
- Podcasts
- Google hangouts
- Tweet chats
- Storify for curation
- Mail Chimp newsletters
- Twitter analytics
- Google analytics
- multiple blogging engines including:
- Blogger
- WordPress
- Medium
- SquareSpace
But more important than the technology, is that the interns will have access to our collective wisdom and have access to an instant personal learning network to allow them to pursue their personal social media goals. This is the first time we have done this and we are still working out the exact curricula, but if you are in nephrology, residency or medical school and want to learn how to leverage the power of social media consider applying for the position.
