Healthcare social media #HCSM - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media in the past 2 weeks:

Social media “likes” healthcare: From marketing to social business. Social media and health care: opportunities and obstacles - PWC 2012 report, free download http://goo.gl/GtSgE

8 Chrome Extensions that Make Blogging Easier http://goo.gl/fFKye

"News Squares" for Chrome is a new visual RSS reader http://goo.gl/ZgO7Z

CDC Social Media Guidelines and Best Practices http://goo.gl/Sw0n - Twitter guide updated in Feb 2012.

"20 Days to High-Quality, Engaged Twitter Following (in just 20 minutes a day)" http://goo.gl/8T0xL - Mixed bag of advice, some good tips

There is an allergy/immunology wiki: "AI notes" http://goo.gl/Qt1iE - Not sure who's behind it, looks useful.

Medicine, Social Media and Clinical Excellence. Let’s do it. http://goo.gl/WgRDw -- Here is one of my related blog posts: Doctors are natural communicators - social media is extension of what they do every day http://goo.gl/2FzQb

Study: There is a kernel of truth to the popular term "Facebook stalking". Introducing new terms (to me) such as: cyber obsessional pursuit (COP) and obsessive relational pursuit (ORI), which are categories of cyberstalking and stalking, resulting in three factors: Covert Provocation, Public Harassment, and Venting. http://goo.gl/sgVys

How to find RSS feeds for Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, YouTube, other SoMe sites http://goo.gl/Q6tNg

Fake tweet stops Nashville doctor's lecture, plans for cruise http://goo.gl/Lj0mO

How to Create Your Own Website using Blogger - Step-by-Step Guide for Physicians http://goo.gl/tCd37

Science blogging and self-promotion? http://goo.gl/yGUqS

How To Deal With Information Overload http://goo.gl/h4CmL and http://goo.gl/wDv5

The articles were selected from my Twitter and Google Reader streams. Please feel free to send suggestions for articles to allergycases@gmail.com and you will receive acknowledgement in the next edition of this publication.

Healthcare social media - top articles

Here are my suggestions for some of the top articles related to healthcare social media in the past 2 weeks:

Healthcare social media is a moral obligation

Healthcare social media is a 'moral obligation', says Farris Timimi, M.D., medical director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. Social media needs to be grown and nurtured for patients. "Our patients are there. Our moral obligation is to meet them where they're at and give them the information they need so they can seek recovery," Timimi said. "You've got to be ready for it. You build it for the patients; not for yourself. "This is not marketing," he added. "This is the right thing to do." http://goo.gl/BHzKf

The New World Of Medical Tweeting

300 million users generate 300 million messages every day, and doctor are part of it. 38% of tweets are conversational - transferring information and spreading content. Twitter can be a strong educational tool.

The American Medical Association has released a public statement about professionalism in social media:

“Participating in social networking and other similar internet opportunities can support physicians’ personal expression, enable individual physicians to have a professional presence online, foster collegiality and camaraderie within the profession, provide opportunity to widely disseminate public health messages and other health communication." http://goo.gl/K2QtK

Guidelines for social media use by Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) describe in detail what NOT to do: http://goo.gl/Raq2e

Digital Strategies for Healthcare Organisations http://goo.gl/PZtWl

Use of Social Media by Western European Hospitals: Longitudinal Study shows that SoMe awareness is growing http://goo.gl/l41tz

Doctors can risk lawsuits when writing about patients - amednews points to books about patients as examples http://goo.gl/QhqFS

GruntDoc: It’s my 10th Blogging Anniversary http://goo.gl/TkBc7 - Congratulations! A great reflection on a long journey.

The articles were selected from my Twitter and Google Reader streams.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

The 327th edition of Grand Rounds (weekly best of medical blogs) http://bit.ly/5xoWws

Infographic of the Day: How Expensive Is U.S. Health Care? http://bit.ly/4Oxk18

How Will Loss of Medicare Consult Fees Affect Your Practice? Check the poll results. http://bit.ly/6VHAM4

The monthly best of medical librarian blogs - always useful: http://bit.ly/7tw1ps

Top Web 2.0 Services in Medicine - 2010 Update http://bit.ly/6X9Lhw

Better Talking offers free automated phone interviews to prepare you for the "real stuff" http://bit.ly/7kW6VO) at bettertalking.com  

"Twitter Destroys Intellectual Value" - by Loren Feldman http://bit.ly/6kttKE

"Free yourself from technopression" http://bit.ly/6nGl84
 
Kraft is selling its pizza business (DiGiorno) trying to buy a chocolate business (Cadbury) http://bit.ly/6PJEoc - Sign of the times?... :)  

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

If you spend too much time on Twitter or Facebook, please read this: No Twitter for a week by Matt Cutts http://bit.ly/51nhPL

Phil Baumann on "Internet addiction": "The Web has begun to use me more than I use it" http://bit.ly/7h30yF

"If you are healthy why are you taking 5 pills every night to ward off a heart attack or stroke?” - Define health? BMJ http://bit.ly/6KmSw1

"A Wiki About Doing Research" http://bit.ly/4KxpHK

How will Medicare's elimination of consult codes affect hospitalists? http://bit.ly/51K9qc

PeRSSonalized Nephrology - journals and Web 2.0 resources http://bit.ly/5DnkYu

"These days, the voice component of a smartphone is more of a necessary add-on rather than the primary function" http://bit.ly/4CVZFB -- A Case for the Unsubsidized Nexus One phone from Google http://bit.ly/7HWup1 and http://bit.ly/4CVZFB

"Facebook is increasingly irrelevant to my world in educational technology" - Joshua Kim http://bit.ly/5mfYxG 

RT @loic We've acquired Ping.fm. Get ready to update 50 social networks from Seesmic http://ping.fm/JdI4Q    

Skiff e-Reader specs leave Kindle in the dust http://bit.ly/60raDM - Hopefully there’s a browser included to take advantage of this...

 
Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Why Twitter Will Endure: “Twitter is looking more and more like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal” - NYT http://bit.ly/4ohSCA

Daring to Live Your Life Offline - Refusing to Use the Internet - WSJ. "I don't understand this thing nowadays where people in the same room send each other emails instead of talking" http://bit.ly/6Pqxed 

"Many users probably spend more time in their web browser than they do in their car" and Google Chrome is faster http://bit.ly/7GtCJ7

History of Fad Diets: William the Conqueror devised an alcohol-only diet in 1087 http://bit.ly/8p8RDo

8.7% of people in the U.S. over the age of 18 have a specific phobia of some kind or other http://bit.ly/5Iubgl

Stephen Fry quits Twitter, bids farewell to his one million followers http://bit.ly/8muUyF

If you spend too much time on Twitter or Facebook, please read this: No Twitter for a week by Matt Cutts http://bit.ly/51nhPL    

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

The Big Picture: Welcoming 2010 Around the World http://bit.ly/5bnfl5

People now ask ChaCha a million questions a day via SMS http://bit.ly/5vLPls

How E-Books Will Change Reading And Writing - NPR http://bit.ly/7bhR3z

"Twitter and Me! Why It’s The Only Social Media Tool I Use." http://bit.ly/6cbzt6

RT @kevinrose: "My 2010 New Year's Resolutions - what are yours?" http://bit.ly/6CM6Fh - Looks like a good start :) 

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Picturing the Past 10 Years - NYTimes http://bit.ly/5UQKJB

How to use social networking in your doctor job hunt - AMA News http://bit.ly/5zVDyQ

Free courses from top universities now easier to find: http://bit.ly/82UERR

102-year old Merle Phillips decided to retire. This gives her more time to write that 11th book: http://bit.ly/4TDgou

Top Google Apps in 2009 - a list of Google services that were launched or were significantly improved in 2009 http://bit.ly/4rpebz

Who did Google make cry this year? 9 startup dreams & industries Google crushed in 2009 http://bit.ly/4ZGP3k

Most popular "Top 5" of everything topics for 2009 by LifeHacker http://bit.ly/5ki2tC

Dr. RW started his new edition of Top 10 issues in hospital medicine for 2009 http://bit.ly/7fQBhp, see the 2008 edition: http://bit.ly/6JViT9  

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

"20 Essential Gmail Tips You Probably Don't Use (but Should!)" http://bit.ly/7Bb45c

"Complete Guide to Free Kindle Books" http://bit.ly/5aV8wH

Free Online Storage Feature-by-Feature Comparison Chart http://bit.ly/6Ri9AQ

Official Twitter buttons: Choose the button you’d like to include in your website http://bit.ly/40pq2l

The Best Twitter Apps for your Mobile Phone http://bit.ly/8NZPff

Deepak Chopra: "It used to annoy me to be called the king of woo woo" http://bit.ly/8xRvIE

Doctors in satirical prints and cartoons (MJA) http://bit.ly/6783OA     

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

"According to one law firm, over 20% of new divorce petitions contain references to Facebook" http://bit.ly/5u5mz1

India firms 'count Facebook cost', losing productivity because office staff spend too long on social networking sites http://bit.ly/8rBLPk

Everyone uses social media today. They just may not know it. http://bit.ly/5vAuI0

Buzzwords in Academic Papers http://bit.ly/6jd92m

Don Dodge: Google has made 3 bets on future of computing: Chrome (browser), Apps (cloud), and Android (mobile) that will change everything. Your cell phone will become your primary computer according to Google... http://bit.ly/5c56Mw

Doctor recruiting patients on Twitter? Check this reply timeline: "Hi this is Dr. Johnson.. I treat headache. call at" http://bit.ly/5EmDPj -- He is a chiropractor who searches Twitter for symptoms and replies offering his services. It does not look like a good approach to me. Clarification: "Chiropractors are also known as doctors of chiropractic in many U.S. jurisdictions" http://bit.ly/4qxudb - Not an M.D.

21 things that became obsolete this decade (Business Insider) http://bit.ly/5XEOkZ

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

"Should Twitter be Banned at Conferences? People need to learn how to be negative properly." http://bit.ly/8uqtbn -- @SarahStewart "I think people need to learn how to give constructive feedback that can aid learning, development and improvement"

What to Do to Prevent Your Gmail Account from Being Hacked and How to Deal With It If It Happens http://bit.ly/8iRtEw - A must read.

LIFE 2009 Photos of the Year http://bit.ly/7JkSSq - See all 51 - probably the most dramatic/emotional photos of this year.

"Say Hello to the Google Tablet in 2010" http://bit.ly/73qWG4 - Will see.

"PubMed on Tap for the iPhone: the NLM in your pocket" http://bit.ly/8GsCaW

Bloggers, Should We Be Worried About Fast Food Content? http://bit.ly/5kZc1S

Web content farms "pump out an endless stream of bulleted lists and tutorials about the most esoteric of subjects" http://bit.ly/4D2zKb -- Content farm Demand Media will be publishing 1 million items/month, equivalent of 4 English-language Wikipedias/yea. In an era overwhelmed by FlickrYouTubeWikipedia-BloggerFacebookTwitter-borne logorrhea, here come the content farms http://bit.ly/2j59VT

Webmaster advice from the medical blog Life in the Fast Lane http://bit.ly/77kZZ3

"Things I Learned in Medical Training That Have Influenced Me in My Non-Medical Life" - from a psychiatry resident http://bit.ly/73hjLO

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

6 Reasons Your Health Organization Should Get a Twitter Account http://bit.ly/5lx1aQ

Neurobiology of Love (check the references at the end of the post) http://bit.ly/5ZrGaB

"How to Make $30,000 a year Blogging" http://bit.ly/7jL8bM - Not sure if this applies to health bloggers, most of them do not blog for money. Blogger.com by Google integrates with Amazon Associates product ads http://bit.ly/78qK5A

@symtym "Interesting use case of Google Wave http://bit.ly/5g2Prx (actual wave): Declaration of Independence"

Step-by-step tutorial: How to Manage Facebook Privacy Options (with pictures) form wikiHow http://bit.ly/5D4DwB

How to Create Google Short URLs without the Toolbar http://bit.ly/60jB9R

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

"Content farms" create massive amounts of niche, mostly uninspired content targeted to search engines http://bit.ly/4XHbi0 -- Social media creating "useless" content: "Content farms vs. curating farmers", if you can follow that... http://bit.ly/4X6AOa

Review: Amazon Kindle 2, one year later http://bit.ly/8WthIH

Picture of the Week: How genetics works http://bit.ly/8DV8ya

94 videos of the LeWeb 2009 sessions http://bit.ly/8CMPij

Quotes from Twitter:

intueri

Compliment of the day: "You're the most sane psychiatrist I ever met." about 5 hours ago

doctorwes

Patient rounds in the era of social media: "So, doctor, have you written anything else on your blog that I don't agree with today?" about 11 hours ago

Doctor_V

Inpatient clinical service and social media are mutually exclusive about 13 hours ago

dreamingspires

Dear cat: I have not been put on the planet for the sole purpose of looking after you. Surprising but true. 10:02 PM Dec 12th

shelisrael

Back from a wintry walk on Chicago streets. It reminded me of 3 top reasons I moved from Boston: 1. December 2. January 3. February 10:09 AM Dec 9th

paulocoelho

C.C.: nobody can make you feel bad without your permission. Never give it 4:16 PM Dec 8th

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Information consumption by Americans: 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information per day http://bit.ly/8cYWLd

In loving memory of live blogging http://bit.ly/7w5gu6 - Long-form journalism replaced by blogs replaced by Twitter. Sad and limiting.

Nook ebook reader: The only thing slower than the color touchscreen strip is the main screen above it - NYT http://bit.ly/63ImCN

Compare Twitter accounts at Followerwonk.com - see the results for some of my favorite tweeple here: http://bit.ly/4sKepc

TIME: The Year in Pictures 2009 http://bit.ly/5kNNkW

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

NPR Makes Its Mobile Website Looks Like iPhone App m.npr.org http://bit.ly/5PL3RM

"Accepting Friend Requests on Facebook from People You Don't Know Is a Recipe for ID Theft" http://bit.ly/4pVMyw

Picnik Extension for Chrome: Edit images in your browser using Picnik http://bit.ly/5TXjLr

Dr. Wes: "Getting Ready for the Cardiology Cuts" http://bit.ly/6ckZUZ

Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone - free for now, will charge in the future http://bit.ly/6XslTz -- Dragon Dictation app is available on the iTunes store as a free download for a limited time but only in the US store http://bit.ly/8HPQIp

5 Fabulous New Features Google Unveiled: Instant Voice Translation, Goggles Visual Search and more http://bit.ly/5mBd8e

"Alienation of affection" lawsuits, when an "outsider" interferes in a marriage, are allowed in 7 states - CNN http://bit.ly/643gfb

50 time-saving Google Docs templates http://bit.ly/7JXxrz

Data Liberation: Google Docs lets you export all your documents (up to 2GB at a time) with one click http://bit.ly/7aF6oD

"Luckily for the Google Wave team, they have Google backing them. If Wave were a startup, they’d likely be in trouble now" http://bit.ly/7i7ldV

Tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

LIFEmee.com Lets You Record And Share Your Entire Life Online http://bit.ly/4TTjVV and http://bit.ly/4zkhQr

Distraction: Students are deactivating Facebook accounts while studying for finals, re-activating them after the exams http://bit.ly/4YUk9T

"Medical marketplace for doctors is becoming global, the need to support current salary levels is likely to erode" http://bit.ly/7MK59i

"Clinical vignettes - an incredible trip toward an infinite learning paradise" http://bit.ly/5vPjEH

Video: A bank robbery suspect quickly disposes of evidence http://bit.ly/5TpTrO

An aortogram or an emaciated picture of Gumby? http://bit.ly/6e2eyf

"Your next Google search" http://bit.ly/4A1epQ

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

Scholarly Identity 2.0: What does the Web say about your research? http://bit.ly/VoEHT - Click to see the slideshare presentation.

@doctorwes: The Inefficiency of Medical E-Mail http://bit.ly/4ZMzz6 - Another thoughtful blog post by Dr. Wes.

"Rediscovery" of pharyngitis in adolescents - a great summary by a hospitalist who truly enjoys teaching: http://bit.ly/4PNgDq

@pkedrosky "Posted a link to a study on blog this morning. Got findings completely backwards. Some days my multitasker breaks down." - It happens to the best of us, hence the disclaimer at the bottom of this post.

@ev "Many of the great businesses of next decade will be about making information about our behaviors more visible" - Will it be opt-in or opt-out?

Glandular Alphabetum in Pathology - A to Z http://bit.ly/7z58tu - You have to see it the pathology slides to believe it.

@Doctor_V "When I mention SM (social media) to other physicians they just giggle and look confused" - I don't usually get this, it probably depends on the environment.

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From my Twitter account:

Use word clouds to analyze the content of your blog and Twitter updates - see an example: http://bit.ly/5Vglrk

Web trends to watch in 2010: moving from content creation to content 'curation' http://bit.ly/4Ko8PI

The Most Stalker-Friendly People On The Web: Robert Scoble allows 1,768 people to know where he is at all times http://bit.ly/7roNhq

"YouTube Feather" Is a Light-Weight Version for Netbooks http://bit.ly/4NG7n1 and http://bit.ly/4HfntQ

@loic "Talk too much about yourself" in France is "build your personal brand" in the U.S."

$25 patient visit co-pay vs. $10 per day for cigarettes http://bit.ly/5jrKFP

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From my Twitter account:

Journalists use RSS to track rivals, news, and tweets - see a few examples: http://bit.ly/5VT0LX

Google Maps: keep the "starred" places on your phone and on your computer completely synchronized http://bit.ly/7iMBSt

Krafty Librarian: What is Google Wave and Why Should I Care? http://bit.ly/6xZRXN

Google home page: Now you see it, now you don't http://bit.ly/6yktZC

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

2009 Google Zeitgeist examines the billions of queries that people around the world have typed into Google search http://j.mp/8BzW0x -- Fastest Falling Google query in 2009: acai berry http://j.mp/8BzW0x -- Fastest Rising Google Query By Quarter: "Swine Flu" Outnumbered Everything Else By Far http://j.mp/4vS1zd

Looking at the social media efforts of hospitals, where is the difference between promotional info (~infomercials) and educating the public?

Google Analytics launches asynchronous tracking = Faster load times for your web pages http://bit.ly/6EgqcC

Thanks to the Internet, vengeance—let's call it "Webtribution"—is easier, and nastier, than ever. From WSJ http://bit.ly/8G2omw

"45 Advertisements You Will Never Forget" http://bit.ly/7YSky7 - 2 health-related examples: http://bit.ly/1ujm1f and http://bit.ly/8xnjCr

How would you feel if "your page" was deleted from Wikipedia? Loren Feldman shares his feelings in this video: http://bit.ly/7TWNHn

How to use Google Checkout store gadget to sell online http://bit.ly/5QSYAo -- Google Checkout is competing with the well-established PayPal but the transaction fees are the same http://bit.ly/6qiydc and http://bit.ly/7kJzIa

E-Readers: They're Hot Now, But Still Evolving and the Landscape is Changing Quickly - WSJ http://bit.ly/7DvmOm

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Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

4 Ways To Make Use Of Twitter Lists http://bit.ly/7L9qpj

Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? http://bit.ly/5EZc8S

Does Text Paging Health Information Violates HIPAA Rules? http://bit.ly/5GOAOO by Dr. Wes

Doctors in Social Media Shouldn't Be Anonymous http://bit.ly/7HhKJY - It's personal decision but I agree it's better to post under your own name and I follow strictly this practice in my own work. Related: Anonymous Medical Blogger? Not Anymore http://bit.ly/8q8KPC and "Simply Fired - How NOT to Blog About Your Job. Especially If You Are a Doctor" http://bit.ly/8N6a1i -- I have been blogging since 3/2005, and I had to update all links to other blogs quoted in a post from 2005 - blogs die quickly, don't they?

“I just lost all my Google traffic – help!” - What to Do When Your Search Rankings Drop http://bit.ly/6axHsK

Shared Medical Decision Making: Informed Consent vs. Informed Choice http://bit.ly/7G0Ymh - There is a difference.

"Another Google Wave Use: Manhunt" http://bit.ly/4N45ju

Oscar winner appears to be tweeting from jail: An inmate wrestles with his fear, boredom and remorse - CNN http://bit.ly/7p4vjT

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