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/

http://twitter.com/

Twitter lifecycle http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle

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 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

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

HR 2790 – Physician Assistants

Today’s buzz – Google Health

Today’s buzz – Google Health

Today’s buzz - Google Health attillacsordas

attillacsordas

Today’s buzz - Google Health dporter

dporter

Today’s buzz - Google Health laktek

laktek

Today’s buzz - Google Health Google

Google

Today’s buzz - Google Health Google API

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”

“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

surgery

Twitter + personal crisis Twittering birth

Twittering birth

Twitter + personal crisis Momku writes poetry during birth

Momku writes poetry during birth

Twitter + education using health feeds

Twitter + teaching

Twitter + events & topics Twemes.com for hashtags Conference tracking

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

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