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Twitter for Health
PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health
Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, [email protected]
May 20, 2008
• http://twitter.com/
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 + weather
More Twitter tools
Twitter for discovery
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
Twitter search - Summize
Using Twitter in health &
healthcare
Twitter + doctors
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 + 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
Join the conversation
Librarians are there, too
Twitter - Pubmed Bootcamp
Twitter - MLA 2008
Want more?
• http://del.icio.us/rosefirerising/twitter+health
