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IMO position paper on Social Media

See on Scoop.itHealth Care Social Media Monitor

Marie Ennis-O’Connor‘s insight:

 

DOCTORS IN IRELAND have been issued with a new set of guidelines for using social media, advising on the “digital legacy” left on the internet.

In its recently-published position paper on Social Media, the Irish Medical Organisation reminds its members that an online environment is still a “public arena” and warned about the “unintended consequences” when the private “suddenly becomes public”.

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Out of the ivory tower and into the crowds: how social media has transformed academic conferences

sarahkchapman's avatarEvidently Cochrane

What a week it’s been here in Oxford for an evidence nerd like me! First, two days of brilliant presentations, stimulating debate and some tasty and reassuringly-managable food that could be eaten standing up, without fear of finding I’d been talking to Ben Goldacre with a piece of coleslaw draped over my conference badge (I suspect he’d have been merciless). That was our Cochrane UK and Ireland 21st Anniversary Symposium, in which both ‘Cochranites’ and those not involved in the Collaboration (gasp!) gathered to discuss the challenges of the changing healthcare landscape and particularly what Cochrane might do to meet them. Hard on its heels and before we’d had time to set about changing the world, came another fabulous two day evidence-fest, Evidence Live, aimed at ‘everyone with an interest in evidence-based healthcare’. Thanks to social media, large numbers of those people were able to join in as virtual participants…

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