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OT's On the Net - UK (OTON-UK?!)

Wowsers. So the OT blogosphere has really taken off over the past few months. Without a doubt this is pretty much down to Merrolee's group in New Zealand but also to student's and of course a few bods like James Lamport Housing-OT Blog and Chris' ABC Therapeutics Blog in the States.

Merrolee and I were talking on GTalk just the other night and discussing ways on broadening the blogosphere / getting methods on us all talking to each other. Then something struck me. In a lot of other communities on the net these various bloggers and community members get together once in a while - yes, actually get away from a computer! Call it a meetup, blogmeet - whatever. I can't accommodate the world (although hey, your all invited!) so I have setup a upcoming group for anyone to join titled "OT's On The Net - UK" and in the upcoming future (like it?) I will organise a suitable venue/date to have a beverage and a chat. So, if your in the UK and reading this.. thinking of starting a Blog, contributing to the net in someway and your an OT (or student OT) then add yourself to the group to be informed of when/where!

Update I stupidly forgot to post the URL in the first revision of this post. To add yourself go to : http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3203/ (It's a yahoo application so you will need to join yahoo )

(Thanks Merrolee)

UPDATE (2) See the forum on the meetup page for some inital thoughts of this meeting and please give me your feedback! http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/topic/1716/

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Hi Will, Have just joined

On July 3rd, 2007 Anonymous says:

Hi Will,
Have just joined the group. Along with a colleague, Angela, I've been interested in Web 2.0 for a little while now, and would love the chance to talk more with likeminded OT's. I think Angela will register too.... Any ideas for a virtual meeting??

Hi there! Yes come along!

On July 8th, 2007 willwade says:

Hi there!
Yes come along! The more the merrier! As for keeping it "virtual" I intend to plan a few things to make this "virtual" as much as possible (costs permitting of course!)

Keep an eye on the meetup page and the forum on there: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3203/ as to how this is progressing

Thanks for the interest
Will

Well I'm not actually an OT

On June 10th, 2007 Anonymous says:

Well I'm not actually an OT (yet- give me three years) but I'm quite excited by the prospect of OTON - UK.

I'm also very excited by the rise of OTs on the net. When I first started looking into it as a career a few years ago there was very little around, and I think it's very important for people to get an idea as to what OT is all about.

So thank you for this Wil, and Merrolee - thank you for working so hard to co-ordinate OT blogs - I'm going to go investigate now!

Thanks

Cathie

OTOTN-UK

On June 5th, 2007 Anonymous says:

Hi Will - have joined up as member number 3.

Def up for a meetup sometime. Taking it a step further, we could plan something to present at COT conference next year - getting carried away now............

I'll be at Conference in Manchester this month - expecting to see an OT or two there.

PS - I've a new address for the RSS feed: http://www.housingot.co.uk/userimages/rss.xml - would you mind updating the feed for "OT blogs"? - cheers.

James

OTOTN_UK

On June 6th, 2007 Anonymous says:

Hi James
Great to see you here... Will and I were talking about maybe something for OTN about web 2.0 ..... I've to send him a series of articles I did for our OT Insight (= to your OT News).... just about to go out and about leaving comments on everyone's blogs about the meeting that Will is proposing....
Look forward to seeing what is planned - hey - we could do some planning in wikispaces??? or google docs..... anyone up for that? Then I'll just play beam me up Scotty from Aotearoa/NZ when it all happens!

fantastic idea

On June 5th, 2007 Anonymous says:

Hi Will
Hope you get a good response to your invitation - don't forget to beam me up!!! Actually that's not difficult as we could try something like Skype linked up with perhaps slideshare or something like that... Or... we could even just use a virtual conferencing system such as Elluminate which we have here at Otago Polytechnic (http://www.otagopolytechnic.ac.nz).
Umm. did you forget your link to the group?
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3203/

Also I tried joining but didn't realise I needed to join yahoo first!!! Having done that - I'm officially number two in the group!!

OTON or OTON - World? But thank you for starting.. now I'll go find some more blogs to link into my bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/public/merrolee