Growing a professional network to over 3000 members in less than 4 years: Evaluation of InspireNet, British Columbia's virtual nursing health services research network

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Frisch, Noreen ^a   Atherton, Pat ^a   Borycki, Elizabeth ^a   Mickelson, Grace ^b   Cordeiro, Jennifer ^c   Lauscher, Helen Novak ^c   Black, Agnes ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b PROVINCIAL HEALTH SERVICES AUTHORITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Health services; Nursing; Research; Social media; Social networking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER NETWORK; EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NURSE; NURSING; NURSING RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; NURSING; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

BLOGGING; BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERNET; NURSES; NURSING RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84897635687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3018     Document Type: Article

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