Is Twitter useful?
A commentator asks if there is a Twitter site allied to this blog. You can follow me (MalcolmPayne) on Twitter, which is not a St Christopher’s project, and I tend to make more personal comments there, and only do it occasionally.
I originally took up Twitter because an executive of a major American palliative care organisation announced you could follow her and I took this up to see what it was all about. When I’m ready I’ll comment further in this blog. But there are a number of palliative care and social work people on Twitter, and one or two organisations that make a big effort to put stuff up there. Really, it’s about people promoting their organisations through providing information. Can be useful.
A really nice idea was an apparently giant American conference on palliative care (you know, one of those where you cannot go to numerous parallel session) got Tweeters to post 140 character comments on the session that they went to, and I thought this was a really useful thing to do with the technology.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Twitter is very useful for the health care field. It is a great opportunity for public health education and to connect with your community. The ability to share new information and ideas that actually matter is happening on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. It is not just about the mundane details of daily living. Check out the chats on Sunday Nights for #HCSM (Health Care & Social Media) for some great exchanges.
I posted a few articles at Pallimed about Twitter:
http://www.pallimed.org/search/label/twitter