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Hashtags, hat-tips and #hpmglobal: using social media to enhance palliative care practiceElissa CampbellAdvanced TraineePalliative Care Masterclass, 24 May 2014
Audience survey• (public shaming)
What is social media?
What is social media?• websites and applications that enable users to create and
share content or to participate in social networking.• Includes:• Blogs (Blogger, wordpress, tumblr)• Video sharing (YouTube, Vimeo)• Facebook• Twitter• Instagram• Pinterest• Snapchat• Foursquare• and countless others
Different social media
What social media to use?
What is Twitter?
• Online social networking and “micro-blogging” service• Users (“tweeps”) send and read 140 character text
messages (“tweets”)• Unregistered users can only read messages, not send
them• Users have handles (usernames) • e.g. @Elissa_Campbell
• Users may follow others’ tweets – tweets appear in reverse chronological order in the user’s twitter feed• Users may retweet (RT) others’ tweets• Users may group tweets into topics using #hashtags
What is Twitter?• RT• MT• HT• Hashtags• #ff
Hashtags to follow• #hpmglobal• #hpm• #hpmjc• #palliative• #hcsmanz• #EoLC• #dyingmatters
Benefits of Twitter• Engage with palliative care doctors, other healthcare
professionals, consumers, policy-makers, politicians – it’s a level playing field
• Palliative Care Journal Club (#hpmjc)• The latest, relevant literature (and mainstream media articles)
curated for you by your fellow Tweeps• Follow conferences (#hpm14, #PCNA14, #PallCareConf)• Start a movement (#hellomynameis, #YODO, #CoPayStories)