This document discusses how health professionals can use Twitter effectively. It provides tips on setting up a profile, elements of an excellent tweet, and how to find and evaluate accounts to follow for usable health information. Suggestions are given for following thought leaders, institutions, journals, and using hashtags and conferences to stay informed. The document advocates using Twitter to keep up to date, learn different perspectives, and make professional connections in the health field.
1. Twitter for Health
Professionals
ELAINE ATTRIDGE, MLS, CLINICAL SERVICES LIAISON
KIMBERLEY R. BARKER, MLIS, LIBRARIAN FOR DIGITAL LIFE
CLAUDE MOORE HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARY, UVA
3. How Kimberley uses Twitter
Promote my work (emerging technology/healthcare &
issues of digital life & librarianship
Make a clear statement about who I am/what I stand
for
Promote/be involved with causes about which I care
Meet people & connect with them- conferences!
Teach people how to use the platform
12. How I made the tweet better
Added a hashtag
Shortened the link to the article
Tweeted it to my 2K+ followers
Tagged the Journal of Neurosurgery
JNS retweeted it to its 9K+ followers
16. And just to make it even better…
I shared the anecdote on my personal
Facebook page
Junior Faculty program organizer saw
my status update
She sent an email summarizing it to the
head of Faculty Development
17. EVEN BETTER!
The head of Faculty Development
forwarded it to the surgeon’s Chair (and
also to my boss)
The Chair replied congratulating the
surgeon, and expressing more interest in
Twitter