FluTweet and Twitter Tips for Clinical Trial Recruiters March 26, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, presentation, Slideshow, twitter, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
First, here is a slideshow about 140 Healthcare uses for Twitter:
Second, TwiTip came up with a nice list of suggestions for clinical trial recruiters about how they should use Twitter. One of the suggestions:
Create a resource list of your new Twitter friends who’ve successfully re-tweeted and help spread the word on your study. Use Tweetdeck or Twhirl to follow all Twitter feeds in one place. Thank your followers and invite them to help out on the next study. More than likely, these Twitter users know someone or are affected by the very disease you are studying and have very personal and heartfelt reasons to get involved.
Third, FluTweet is an interesting application for tracking flu epidemics with Twitter.
FluTweet uses fresh Twitter data to track global flu epidemics. Tracking is based on counting tweets that contain flu-related keywords, such as flu, influenza or sore throat. Prevalence of those keywords should correlate with flu activity, since people often tweet about their flu or flu-like symptoms.
Further reading:
- If you’re new to Twitter
- Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
- 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
- Twitterview: The Future of Medicine in 140 Characters
- The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
- What you have to know about Twitter
- Quality of Medical Information Online: A Twitter Discussion
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
- Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?
- Health Tweeple to Follow
- Twitter for Health and Medicine
- Omnee: An organic directory of Twitter users
Google Health: Slideshow June 5, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Google, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, presentation.add a comment
I introduced the new service of Google Health some weeks ago. Now Matthew Holt, the author of The Health Care Blog created a nice slideshow about it:
(Via Kevin, MD)
Further reading:
How Not to Give a Presentation! April 29, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun, Medicine 2.0, presentation, Web 2.0.2 comments
This slideshow, I found at Clinical Cases and Images, is one of the best ones I’ve ever seen. It focuses on how not to give a presentation:
I’m a medical student so I know exactly what it is like to sit and watch plenty of bad and long presentations while I still believe even the worst and most boring subjects could be visualized properly on a well-structured slideshow.
I’ve given dozens of slideshows about web 2.0 and medicine and they changed a lot after my US trip this February. I realized the aim is not to transmit all the information you have, but to persuade your audience to search for your project or your work after your presentation. You can clearly see the difference if you take a look at my old and the new slideshows.
Now I
- use images (many many images)
- talk instead of inserting all the texts I have on the slides
- make comparisons (e.g. between the old and new form of web)
- present only a slice of the whole story (I used to talk about all the axes of medicine 2.0)
- try to avoid “overhyping” the importance of web 2.0
- tell more stories (like this one about Second Life)
What are your tips?
Let’s finish with a funny video about the same topic:
Further reading:
