I’d been following #femedtech for some time and had put my name down on the waiting list for a two-week curation slot, so when @francesbell asked me to step up, I just had to take the plunge! I’ve just finished two weeks of curating the @femedtech Twitter account, so now feels the right time to share a few reflections.
I was quite nervous to begin with. I’m normally quite discreet on social media, especially Twitter. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a lurker, but apart from splurges of Tweet-facilitated conversations at conferences, I mainly use it as a source of information.
My first reflection is that this curation gave me a sense what I first framed for myself as a ‘responsibility for the collective voice’. The collective voice of former, presenet and future @femedtech curators. And as I got into the swing of things, this evolved into a plural of collective voices. The femedtech code of conduct guided me here, as I constantly asked myself “Whose voices do we want to amplify via this channel? How can we best use the growing #femedtech community to make these voices heard?”.
In practical terms, @MarenDeepwell‘s blog post A day in the life of a #femedtech guest curator helped me structure my curation
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