Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Social Media Related Tweets and Insights

From my Twitter account:

  • Information Overload, the Index Medicus, and PubMed. PubMed contains 18,782,970 citations in the medical literature, adding over 670,000 new entries per year http://bit.ly/10DrLp

  • "How to Find out Who's using Facebook in your Hospital" and what to do if you don't like their "unofficial group" http://bit.ly/lR6tp

  • "Do You Have These Core Human Skills?" by Josh Kaufman http://bit.ly/hRIPi

  • A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book? http://bit.ly/2WZjVj

  • British gov "Twitter policy" http://bit.ly/3lkYsL (organizations finally writing policies; now should think about strategies) via @giustini

  • A blog devoted to "Building an effective online presence for health professionals" http://bit.ly/9fJMh

  • Will one Chicago woman's Tweet cost her $50,000 in the form of a defamation lawsuit? http://bit.ly/VXvXK

  • Paul Krugman gets 1200 or more comments to his opinion pieces. http://bit.ly/R94Qs

  • Fed boss Bernanke faces personal downturn: His net worth dropped by almost a third in last year http://bit.ly/FOZYh

Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source/links, etc. The inclusion of a Twitter update (tweet) does not represent endorsement or agreement of any kind. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support.

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