Increased use of twitter at a medical conference: A report and a review of the educational opportunities

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  McKendrick, Douglas R A ^a,b   Cumming, Grant P ^a,b,c   Lee, Amanda J ^b  

^a NHS GRAMPIAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anesthesiology; Conferences; Congresses; Social media; Twitter messaging

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; EDUCATION; INTERNET; MANPOWER; REVIEW;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; EDUCATION; INTERNET;

EID: 84872445664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2144     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Twitter. URL: https://twitter.com/[accessed 2012-05-26] [WebCite Cache ID 67wVVSPQx].
2. Sysomos. Sysomos Resource Library. 2009 Nov. Inside Twitter Clients URL: http://www.sysomos.com/insidetwitter/clients/[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67Bpdq9TT].
3. Priem J, Costello K. How and why scholars cite on Twitter. 2010 Presented at: Proceedings of the 73rd ASIST Annual Meeting: Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem; October 22-27, 2010; Pittsburgh, PA URL: http://www.asis.org/asist2010/proceedings/proceedings/ASIST-AM10/submissions/ 201-Final-Submission.pdf [WebCite Cache].
4. Letierce J, Passant A, Breslin J, Decker S. Understanding how Twitter is used to spread scientific messages. 2010 Presented at: Web Science Conference; April 26-27, 2010; Raleigh, NC URL: http://www.johnbreslin.org/files/ publications/20100426-webs2010c.pdf [WebCite Cache].
5. Ross C, Terras M, Warwick C, Welsh A. Enabled backchannel: conference Twitter use by digital humanists. Journal of Documentation 2011;67:214-237. [doi: 10.1108/00220411111109449].
6. Barton D. Edelman Digital. 2011 Jul 05. Health Digital Check-Up: Medical Meetings Go Social URL: http://www.edelmandigital.com/2011/07/05/health-digital- check-upmedical-meetings-go-social/[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BnhG2rV].
7. Sinclair C. Pallimed. 2009 Apr 05. Lessons Learned Using Twitter at a Medical Conference URL: http://www.pallimed.org/2009/04/lessons-learned-using- twitter-at.html [accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BnzUYqD].
8. McGowan B. Meetingsnet. 2010 Sep 09. Why CME Should Embrace Social Media URL: http://meetingsnet.com/social-media/0909-cme-embrace-social-media/[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67Bo5Ma9J].
9. McGowan B. Meetingsnet. 2011 Mar 14. The Alliance for CME Gets Social URL: http://meetingsnet.com/medicalmeetings/cme-rules-regs/alliance-for-cme- gets-social-0314/[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BoAsreQ].
10. McGowan B. Meetingsnet. 2010 Jul 01. The Great ASCO Tweetup URL: http://meetingsnet.com/social-media/0701-great-asco-tweetup/[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BoF0All].
11. Chu L, Zamora A, Young C, Kurup V, Macario A. The role of social networking applications in the medical academic environment. Int Anesthesiol Clin 2010;48(3):61-82. [doi: 10.1097/AIA.0b013e3181e6e7d8] [Medline: 20616638].
12. Sinclair C. KevinMD.com. 2011 Sep 16. How to use Twitter at your next medical conference, September 2011 URL: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/09/ twitter-medical-conference.html [accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BoK7Jts].
13. McKendrick D. Smartphones, Twitter and new learning opportunities at anaesthetic conferences. Anaesthesia 2012 Apr;67(4):438-439. [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2012.07068.x] [Medline: 22409809].
14. Reinhardt W, Ebner M, Beham G, Costa C. How People are using Twitter during Conferences. 2009 Presented at: EduMedia conference; May 4-5, 2009; Salzburg, Austria p. 145-156 URL: http://lamp.tu-graz.ac.at/~i203/ebner/ publication/09-edumedia.pdf[WebCite Cache].
15. Fleiss J. Statistical methods for rates and proportions. New York: Wiley; 1981.
16. Priem J, Costello K, Dzuba T. Prevalence and use of Twitter among scholars. 2011 Presented at: Metrics: Symposium on Informetric and Scientometric Research; October 12, 2011; New Orleans, LA URL: http://jasonpriem.org/self- archived/5uni-poster.png [WebCite Cache].
17. Thurman M. The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland Membership Survey. 2011 Oct. URL: http://www.aagbi.org/sites/default/files/ AAGBI%20Membership%20Survey%20- %20Final%20Report%20with%20additional%20analysis%20without%20comments.pdf [accessed 2012-12-06] [WebCite Cache ID 6ChjB1RHp].
18. Bosker B. The Huffington Post. 2011 Aug 09. Twitter Finally Shares Key Stats: 40 Percent Of Active Users Are Lurkers URL: http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2011/09/08/twitter-stats-n-954121.html[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67Boer4s7].
19. Ebner M, Reinhardt W. Social networking in scientific conferences-Twitter as tool for strengthening a scientific community. 2009 Presented at: SCIENCE 2.0 FOR TEL workshop at ECTEL 2009; September 29-October 2, 2009; Nice, France URL: http://www.scribd.com/doc/20363438/Social-networking-in-scientific- conferences-%E2%80%93-Twitter-as-tool-for-strengthen-a-scientific-community [WebCite Cache].
20. Rowlands I, Nicholas D, Russell B, Canty N, Watkinson A. Social media use in the research workflow. Learned Publishing 2011 Jul;24(3):183-195. [doi: 10.1087/20110306].
21. Weller K, Dröge E, Puschmann C. Citation Analysis in Twitter. Approaches for Defining and Measuring Information Flows within Tweets during Scientific Conferences. 2011 May 30 Presented at: Making Sense of Microposts Workshop at the Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011; May 30, 2011; Heraklion, Crete p. 1-12 URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-718/paper-04.pdf [WebCite Cache].
22. Java A, Song X, Finin T, Tseng B. Why we twitter: Understanding microblogging usage and communities. 2007 Aug Presented at: 9th WebKDD and 1st SNA-KDD 2007 Workshop on Web Mining and Social Network Analysis at ACM SIGKDD; August 12-15, 2007; San Jose, CA p. 56-65 URL: http://aisl.umbc.edu/resources/ 369.pdf [WebCite Cache]. (Pubitemid 351665610)
23. Perez S. ReadWrite Social. 2009 Aug 10. 10 Ways to Archive your Tweets URL: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10-ways-to-archive-your-tweets. php[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BqCeuGa.
24. Hansell S. New York Times, Technology, Bits. 2009 Jul 16. Advertisers Are Watching Your Every Tweet URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/ advertisers-are-watching-your-every-tweet/[accessed 2012-04-25] [WebCite Cache ID 67BqGH70F].
25. Twitter. Twitter Blog. 2010 Apr 13. Hello World URL: http://blog.twitter. com/2010/04/hello-world.html[accessed 2012-05-30] [WebCite Cache ID 6838mmqaT].
26. Mollett A, Moran D, Dunleavy P. LSE Research Online. 2011 Oct 20. Using Twitter in University research, teaching and impact activities: A guide for academics and researchers URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/38489/1/Using-Twitter- in-university-research%2C-teaching-and-impact-activities-(LSE-RO).pdf [accessed 2012-02-15] [WebCite Cache ID 6ChowR2uV].
27. McCartney M. How much of a social media profile can doctors have? BMJ 2012;344:e440. [Medline: 22271528].
28. British Medical Association (BMA). Medical Schools Council. 2011 May. Using social media: practical and ethical guidance for doctors and medical students URL: http://www.medschools.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/social-media- guidance-may2011.pdf [accessed 2012-12-06] [WebCite Cache ID 6ChpGABKm].