Twitter Twittering* for Work & Health • http://twitter.com/ * (and Plurking)

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, [email protected] July 15, 2008

Twitter lifecycle Twitter is …

• Twitter is a type of tool • Twitter = Microblogging (sort of) • Microblogging ≠ Twitter • Microblogging = (Twitter OR Jaiku OR Pownce OR Plurk OR Tumblr)

• http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle

Twitter is …

• for friends • for news • for current events • for crisis response • for silliness • for intelligent discussion Twitter for • like fishing • like sex productivity • like a chatroom • a microblogging tool • an RSS feed generator • • the social search engine • and what else? we’ve all been waiting for

1 Twitter + time management Twitter + task management

Twitter + calendar Twitter + weather

Twitter + traffic More

2 Twitter + health news

Twitter for discovery

Twitter + health Twitter + health news news

Today’s buzz – Google Health Twitter + health legislation

• HR 2790 – Physician Assistants

3 Today’s buzz – Google Health Today’s buzz - Google Health

• attillacsordas

Today’s buzz - Google Health Today’s buzz - Google Health

• dporter • laktek

Today’s buzz - Google Health Today’s buzz - Google Health

• Google • Google API

4 Twitter + science

Using Twitter in health & healthcare

Twitter + doctors Twitter + nurses

Twitter + Telemedicine + Twitter + dentists Second Opinion

5 Twitter + activism Twitter + make a difference

Twitter + exercise Twitter + health tracking

• “Tweet your pain”

Twitter + food tracking Twitter + blood sugar tracking

6 Twitter + dieting Twitter + dieting + support

Twitter + smoking cessation Twitter + smoking cessation

Twitter + disaster & crisis Twitter + cancer preparedness

7 Twitter + emergency response Twitter + personal crisis

• surgery

Twitter + personal crisis Twitter + personal crisis

• Twittering • Momku birth writes poetry during birth

Twitter + education using Twitter + teaching health feeds

8 Twitter + events & topics Join the conversation

• Twemes.com for hashtags • Conference tracking

Find folks to follow: Twitter Find folks to follow: Twellow

Twitter search - Flaptor Twitter search - Summize

9 Twitter buys Summize Plurking, too!

Plurk Plurk Conversations

Plurk + Workshop = Plurkshop Plurkshops

10 Want more?

• http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/twitter+he alth

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