This document discusses various image sharing sites and apps that radiologists can use to share images for public relations, education, and networking purposes. It provides an overview of popular platforms like Instagram, Figure 1, and Pinterest, outlining their benefits and limitations for radiology image sharing. Key recommendations include following radiology-focused users and groups, being mindful of patient privacy and copyright issues when posting images, and using platforms like Instagram that have large, general audiences to help educate the public about radiology.
4. Why Share Images?
Because Radiology = Images
Uses: Public Relations & Education
Why not use Twitter for Everything?
Dedicated audience cares about visual media
Captions allow for more text than Twitter
In-line commenting
6. Instagram
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General Audience = Patients
Large User Base (>200m)
Easy Sharing to Other Services
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General Audience = Selfies
Small Radiology Presence
Phone-centric
Square Images Only
7. Instagram Tips
Consider apps like
Schedugr.am or
Latergram.me to “post”
from your computer
People to Follow
@CincyKidsRad
@RadiologyACR
@Radiopaedia
@Radiology85
@heniekoh
9. Figure 1
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Medically Focused
Supports Series of Images
Dropbox Integration
Built In Annotator
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Small User Base
Early in Development
(Currently) Phone Posting Only
10. Figure 1 – Who to Follow
Current Recommendation:
Subscribe to “Radiology” and pick users
with good content
12. Pinterest
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Large User Base (>80m)
Can Follow “Boards”
Can Post Link with Image
Post from Phone or Computer
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Small Radiology Presence
Flooded with Recipes and Clothes
15. Patient Privacy
This photo is so ubiquitous that I don’t know
who to credit as the original source.
16. The Internet is Forever.
He continues with an analogy to Terminator 2:
“when they shoot the liquid metal terminator guy
in the face at close range and it kind of splits him
open temporarily almost like a flower blooming.
We all find beauty in different things.”
“This is my 2nd favorite gunshot wound of all time. I
wish I could tell you the story behind this awesome x-ray,
but the patient came through the ER and they don’t
believe in obtaining patient histories. (I wish I was
kidding.) I’m guessing a jealous husband or a jilted
lover. I mean … 2 shotgun blasts … to the back.”
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/02/25/dr-milton-wolf-caught-posting-x-rays/
17. Copyright Schmopyright
“you hereby grant to Figure 1, Inc., in perpetuity, a non-exclusive, fully paid and
royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content
that you post on or through the Service”
https://figure1.com/sections/tos/
“you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free,
transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post
on or through the Service”
http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/
“You grant Pinterest and its users a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable,
sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, re-pin,
modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute your User Content”
https://about.pinterest.com/en/terms-service
18. Handout and Slides: bitly.com/RSNASocialMediaIntro
Neil U Lall, MD
NULall@gmail.com
@NULall
http://www.linkedin.com/in/NULall
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO