How to start social media as doctors? May 27, 2011
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, twitter, Video, Web 2.0.trackback
My old friend and mentor, Ves Dimov, MD at Clinical Cases and Images shared some great instructions about how to start using social media as medical professionals.
- Start on Twitter, expand to a blog as natural progression.
- Input your blog posts automatically to a Facebook like/fan page.
- Listen to the leading physicians, nurses and patients’ voices on Twitter, and reply.
- Comment on blogs.
- Do not be afraid to share your expertise.
- Comply with HIPAA and common sense.
Howard Luks addresses this issue:
Also here is what Ves thinks about using Twitter.
I have published a series of similar entries on my Medicine 2.0 page.
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