Twittering* for Work and Health - University of Michigan

[Pages:11]Twittering* for Work & Health

* (and Plurking)

PF Anderson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Health Sciences Libraries, University of

Michigan, pfa@umich.edu July 15, 2008

Twitter

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Twitter lifecycle

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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 ...

? 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

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Twitter + time management

Twitter + task management

Twitter + calendar

Twitter + weather

Twitter + traffic

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Twitter for discovery

Twitter + health news

Twitter + health news

Twitter + health news

Twitter + health legislation

? HR 2790 ? Physician Assistants

Today's buzz ? Google Health

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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

? Google

Today's buzz - Google Health

? Google API

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Using Twitter in health &

healthcare

Twitter + science

Twitter + doctors

Twitter + nurses

Twitter + dentists

Twitter + Telemedicine + Second Opinion

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Twitter + activism

Twitter + make a difference

Twitter + exercise

Twitter + health tracking

? "Tweet your pain"

Twitter + food tracking

Twitter + blood sugar tracking

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Twitter + dieting

Twitter + dieting + support

Twitter + smoking cessation

Twitter + smoking cessation

Twitter + cancer

Twitter + disaster & crisis preparedness

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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

Twitter + teaching

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