Twittering* (*and Plurking) for Work and Health

Twittering* for Work & Health* (and Plurking)

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health

Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, pfa@umich.edu

July 15, 2008

Twitter

• 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

• Google

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