Aug 05 2009

PSW in the Media – August 5th 2009

Category: PSW Media Coverage, PSW in Print — admin @ 9:18 pm

We’re devolping a number of process in which to find, extract and report on the news media’s coverage of the personal support worker industry.

Google News Canada is a good starting place, as it brings together a number of local newspapers into one cohesive engine.

For the week of July 29th – August 5th only five results were found for the keyword search term “personal support worker”. Below is a screen capture of the news results:

google-news-august-5th

I would classify these articles in the following fashion:

Advertisement (1)

Medical Related (1)

Letters to the Editor (1)

Unrelated (2)

PSW as the main subject (0)

Not a great showing for the industry. Over the past week there were a grand total of zero PSW focussed articles by newspaper writers. Such an odd occurrence by a growing industry.

Next time around we will begin to look at the impact of PSW in the online world, starting with some of web 2.0 technologies.

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Jul 31 2009

Mission Statement

Category: PSW Updates — admin @ 9:45 pm

Personalsupportworker.org has been created to be a ‘watchdog’ on PSW information, whether it be online or off. In the future expect to see media reviews, governmental issues and other pertinant information regarding the growth of Canadian PSW workers.

Starting at a ‘macro’ source, let’s look at the Google Trends data for the search term ‘personal support worker’.

12 months ending July 2009

12 months ending July 2009

As you can see, the search volume has not grown exponentially. Steady growth has occurred however. Google Trend data will be one of many online and offline sources that this website will monitor and report on in the coming months.

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