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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

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• 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

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Twitter + time management Twitter + task management

Twitter + calendar Twitter + weather

Twitter + traffic More

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Twitter for discovery

Twitter + health news

Twitter + health

newsTwitter + health news

Twitter + health legislation

• HR 2790 – Physician

Assistants

Today’s buzz – Google Health

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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

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Using Twitter in

health &

healthcare

Twitter + science

Twitter + doctors Twitter + nurses

Twitter + dentistsTwitter + Telemedicine +

Second Opinion

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Twitter + activism Twitter + make a difference

Twitter +

exercise Twitter + health tracking

• “Tweet your pain”

Twitter + food tracking Twitter + blood sugar tracking

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Twitter + dieting Twitter + dieting + support

Twitter + smoking cessation Twitter + smoking cessation

Twitter + cancerTwitter + disaster & crisis

preparedness

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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

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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

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Twitter buys SummizePlurking, too!

Plurk Plurk Conversations

Plurk + Workshop = Plurkshop Plurkshops

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

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