See on Scoop.it – Health Care Social Media Monitor
Looking for high-tech ways to keep residents, clients and employees engaged in improving their health? Social media websites and online games may just do the trick, according to 2 new reports.
See on www.leadingage.org
Lucien Engelen and his team have been doing a great job focusing on the social media use of European hospitals (see their recent JMIR paper). Here is the next step:
The next step was to share social media usage by individual hospitals on a map, combined with the great work that Ed Bennet (@edbennet) did in the United States. Looking for a nice way to present this, Silja (@whydotpharma) showed us her idea to do just that.
So here it is : The first Worldwide Hospital Social Media Monitor. You can easily embed this map into your own website or blog, and we look forward receiving your feedback (Please use @hospitalseu).
‘Findings related to Web-use skills differences suggest two classes of interventions to facilitate access to good-quality online health information.
Challenges related to attitudes and technical skills should be remedied by improving people’s basic Web-use skills. In particular, Web users should be taught how to avoid information overload by generating specific search terms and to avoid low-quality information by requesting results from trusted websites only.
Problems related to discovery may be remedied by visually labeling search engine results according to quality criteria.’
J Med Internet Res 2012;14(3):e87
doi:10.2196/jmir.2051
See on www.jmir.org
This handy infographic designed by DK New Media presents data supplied by eConsultance from a ‘TwitPoll’ about why Twitter users opt out of wanting to know news and views from other Twitter users.
The number one reason people unfollow accounts on Twitter is too much tweeting, followed by too much self-promotion. Other turn-offs include infrequent/ no tweets from an account, boring tweets, or too much repetition.
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