blogging

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/

It was sometime ago last year that having been explosed to what a blog was, and what it could be, I went looking for blogs written by occupational therapists.  I was surprised (or perhaps I wasn't really) to find that when I searched on the term occupational therapy using search tools such as technorati.com that there were blogs on occupational therapy but mostly written by people who had been the recipient of occupational therapy, or whose family members had been.  Willwade's blog was the first one I found written by an occupational therapist.  Inspired by the examples I saw being used by educators in other fields such as education, and Will's this year I started my first blog!  Now not being a good journal or diary writer myself, this has been a challenge, but we're getting there...   anyway - if you are visiting Will's blog, please check out mine as well - Occupational Therapy - Educational Issues There's a whole group of us developing blogs and you can get to these blogs through my links pages at the moment!  More later...

OT blogs. Why are so few OT's out there involved with publishing anything on the net?? Read on for a bit of a opinionated rant...