twittering* (*and plurking) for work and health
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Part of the School of Dentistry Bootcamp series, with podcast to be posted at http://dent.umich.edu/informatics/bootcamp/TRANSCRIPT
Twittering* for Work & Health* (and Plurking)
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health
Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, [email protected]
July 15, 2008
• http://twitter.com/
Twitter lifecycle
• http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle
Twitter is …
• Twitter is a type of tool
• Twitter = Microblogging (sort of)
• Microblogging ≠ Twitter
• Microblogging = (Twitter OR Jaiku OR Pownce OR Plurk OR Tumblr)
Twitter is …
• for friends
• for current events
• for silliness
• like fishing
• like a chatroom
• an RSS feed generator• • and what else?
• for news
• for crisis response
• for intelligent discussion
• like sex
• a microblogging tool
• the social search engine we’ve all been waiting for
Twitter for productivity
Twitter + time management
Twitter + task management
Twitter + calendar
Twitter + weather
Twitter + traffic
More
Twitter for discovery
Twitter + health news
Twitter + health news
Twitter + health news
Twitter + health legislation
• HR 2790 – Physician Assistants
Today’s buzz – Google Health
Today’s buzz – Google Health
Today’s buzz - Google Health
• attillacsordas
Today’s buzz - Google Health
• dporter
Today’s buzz - Google Health
• laktek
Today’s buzz - Google Health
Today’s buzz - Google Health
• Google API
Using Twitter in health &
healthcare
Twitter + science
Twitter + doctors
Twitter + nurses
Twitter + dentists
Twitter + Telemedicine + Second Opinion
Twitter + activism
Twitter + make a difference
Twitter + exercise
Twitter + health tracking
• “Tweet your pain”
Twitter + food tracking
Twitter + blood sugar tracking
Twitter + dieting
Twitter + dieting + support
Twitter + smoking cessation
Twitter + smoking cessation
Twitter + cancer
Twitter + disaster & crisis preparedness
Twitter + emergency response
Twitter + personal crisis
• surgery
Twitter + personal crisis
• Twittering birth
Twitter + personal crisis
• Momku writes poetry during birth
Twitter + education using health feeds
Twitter + teaching
Twitter + events & topics
• Twemes.com for hashtags
• Conference tracking
Join the conversation
Find folks to follow: Twitter
Find folks to follow: Twellow
Twitter search - Flaptor
Twitter search - Summize
Twitter buys Summize
Plurking, too!
Plurk
Plurk Conversations
Plurk + Workshop = Plurkshop
Plurkshops
Want more?
• http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/twitter+health