Twittering* (*and Plurking) for Work and Health

Slide 1: Twittering* for Work & Health * (and Plurking) PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Michigan, pfa@umich.edu July 15, 2008

Slide 2: Twitter • http://twitter.com/

Slide 3: Twitter lifecycle • http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle

Slide 4: Twitter is … • Twitter is a type of tool • Twitter = Microblogging (sort of) • Microblogging ≠ Twitter • Microblogging = (Twitter OR Jaiku OR Pownce OR Plurk OR Tumblr)

Slide 5: Twitter is … • for friends • for news • for current events • for crisis response • for silliness • for intelligent discussion • like fishing • like sex • like a chatroom • a microblogging tool • an RSS feed generator • • the social search engine • and what else? we’ve all been waiting for

Slide 6: Twitter for productivity

Slide 7: Twitter + time management

Slide 8: Twitter + task management

Slide 9: Twitter + calendar

Slide 10: Twitter + weather

Slide 11: Twitter + traffic

Slide 12: More

Slide 13: Twitter for discovery

Slide 14: Twitter + health news

Slide 17: Twitter + health legislation • HR 2790 – Physician Assistants

Slide 18: Today’s buzz – Google Health

Slide 19: Today’s buzz – Google Health

Slide 20: Today’s buzz - Google Health • attillacsordas

Slide 21: Today’s buzz - Google Health • dporter

Slide 22: Today’s buzz - Google Health • laktek

Slide 23: Today’s buzz - Google Health • Google

Slide 24: Today’s buzz - Google Health • Google API

Slide 25: Using Twitter in health & healthcare

Slide 26: Twitter + science

Slide 27: Twitter + doctors

Slide 28: Twitter + nurses

Slide 29: Twitter + dentists

Slide 30: Twitter + Telemedicine + Second Opinion

Slide 31: Twitter + activism

Slide 32: Twitter + make a difference

Slide 33: Twitter + exercise

Slide 34: Twitter + health tracking • “Tweet your pain”

Slide 35: Twitter + food tracking

Slide 36: Twitter + blood sugar tracking

Slide 37: Twitter + dieting

Slide 38: Twitter + dieting + support

Slide 39: Twitter + smoking cessation

Slide 40: Twitter + smoking cessation

Slide 41: Twitter + cancer

Slide 42: Twitter + disaster & crisis preparedness

Slide 43: Twitter + emergency response

Slide 44: Twitter + personal crisis • surgery

Slide 45: Twitter + personal crisis • Twittering birth

Slide 46: Twitter + personal crisis • Momku writes poetry during birth

Slide 47: Twitter + education using health feeds

Slide 48: Twitter + teaching

Slide 49: Twitter + events & topics • Twemes.com for hashtags • Conference tracking

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