In this session, Rebekah Higgitt and Vanessa Heggie, who run The H Word for the Guardian Science Blogs network, will discuss the whys and hows of blogging and other forms of social media for communicating research and HSTM. This session will involve brief talks, discussion and demonstration.

Attendees are welcome to email or tweet questions, or examples of good (or bad) practice before the session: see links above for contact details. The conveners will try to get through as many as possible!