State of the Nursing Blog
I’ve been trying to knock out this post about how Smith & Nephew could be using their website to start a conversation with nurses about wound care products. But to be honest with you, I’m just not feeling it. Instead, I think I’d like to explain to my readers where this blog is headed. I know I’ve been sending out a lot of messages lately to the tune of, “I really want to get out of nursing,” and some might be wondering why I continue to write a nursing blog, and work on projects like OrientedX3, if I’m not so keen on nursing. Over the next week I’m going to start writing some posts that spell out where PixelRN is headed.
Also, I’ve noticed many nurses lately playing around with the idea of blogging under their own domain name and server space, rather than using blogspot or wordpress.com. This is actually something that I am quite familiar with and am thinking about doing a series of “how-to” posts on setting up a blog under your own domain. Let me know in the comment section if you would be interested in this.
In other news, The twitter Nurses on Twitter list has been a great success, and I am so happy to see all the nurses conversing over Twitter. Thanks, everyone for participating and “friending” one another!
*note: The Nurse Pendant above can be purchased from theoddbird store on etsy.
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Articles on hosting would be really interesting. I’m sensing an impending split with Blogger. I’ve designed my own website before (not CSS literate, only basic HTML). So this could be good!
Thanks for your work with Twitter too!
WardBunny — August 24, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
I would be interested in learning how to host my own website, as well. The down and dirty, what you need to know stuff sounds good to me.
Jacob — August 24, 2008 @ 7:38 pm
I would love articles on starting my own domain, since I am in the process of thinking about it!
-Kim
Kim — August 24, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
How tos would be great! My fiance is a web designer/coder so although I do run and code most of my blog myself on Blogger (so it is mostly automated, lol), I do have to say that he was the one who got it set up on my domain name for me. I’m planning a huge redesign for the fall, but I hate that I can’t do it myself. I’d love to know how to do more on my own on Wordpress or something but just don’t know where to start, you know? (He could teach me but he’s soooo advanced - he wants to do the whole thing in Expression Engine and host it on his own server and all that… all I know is HTML coding from the 90s!) Anywho… I’ve been here from the start and I do admire how YOU pretty much singlehandedly established a spot in social media for nurses. OrientedX3?? Come on, like who would have thought of that?? But it’s FAB! They say this field is limitless, so who knows? Especially with technology just exploding in medicine, maybe you could still stay in nursing and do something with web or whatever you enjoy most. Being in my 4th year of nursing school, all we hear is about this and that new field in nursing and I have heard so many unbelievable tech-related specialties popping up lately. Who knows?? Follow your heart and do what makes you happy.
I hope you find it. You definitely deserve it.
amanda — August 24, 2008 @ 11:36 pm
Heh heh.. I’ve traveled down the self-hosting path myself. Just not for me at this time, but it’s definitely in my future.
Look forward to hearing your plans my dear….
Keep on Tweetin’!!
Strong One — August 25, 2008 @ 5:10 am
I definitely would love to see you supporting nurses by doing domain info sessions. I am doing it with the help of friends, iWeb, and a lot of time, I would love to learn some wordpress, because I love how it generates content. I just am not sure how to get started.
Love the work you do, and would be so interested in seeing you keep helping develop where nurses are in the interspace(net).
ROBERT FRASER — August 25, 2008 @ 10:30 am