Join me at NorCATA’s annual business meeting at Fort Mason on January 29th! It’s going to be a great talk about new technology and the online presence. Don’t miss it! Register here.
Staying on the Forefront: Art Therapy, the Online Presence and New Technology
The online presence: an exploration of social media, privacy and professionalism.
- What is an online presence and why you already have one.
- LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp—are they for art therapists too?
- Guidelines on the safest ways to present your professional self online, including a discussion of online privacy.
New technology and what it means for the art therapy field:
- What’s old and new in the digital art therapy world?
- Why new technology isn’t a perfect substitute for traditional media…yet.
- Why even your grandmother could learn how to use the newest technology.
- How digital art therapy is important for our field.
Hi Liz,
I am coming kicking and screaming into the new technological age. Not because I don’t see enormous value in it both from a business perspective and also as a means of understanding my client’s world of communication, but because I no sooner master one thing than I am off chasing another. I wish I could come! I hope it’s a stunning success. Glenda
Glenda, you’re so right! Things are changing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up…staying flexible is a huge part of being a professional in today’s day and age.
But, since you’re definitely one of many who feel this way, at some point technology will offer a solution to this issue…whether it’s that things become so intuitive and easy to interact with that it’s not a problem to learn something new, or whether there’s some other innovation that happens, allowing us to keep up seamlessly…I guarantee this is a problem people are working on and will one day be addressed :) Think of how much easier computers are to use now in comparison to 1990. All this innovation in 20 years! Things are moving even more quickly now, so it’ll take less time to see the amount of improvement we saw with computer usability.
The first step is to begin using new technology so that you can get used to this new pace of learning, which is what you’re doing :)
Thank you for your words of encouragement!
– Liz