To Twitter or not to Twitter
In her blog “Information Wants to Be Free,” Meredith Farkas, Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont, writes about how “Twitter has changed so much in significance and...
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Did you know that you can access PubMed resources from your mobile device? Learn how at the monthly “Spotlight! On National Library of Medicine Resources” online workshop on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010,...
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University Health Care goes mobile
If you visit the University of Utah’s Health Care website via a mobile device (iPhone, iPod touch, Android, etc.), you are automatically redirected to their mobile site. The home page of this site fits...
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Tools for creating a library mobile website
The iLibrarian blog has an interesting posting on “7 Tools to Create a Mobile Library Website (without Technical Knowledge!).” The post begins with a table showing the seven tools, and seven possible...
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Libraries, Social Media & the Law
Today the Utah State Library offered a two-hour presentation on “Social Media and the Law” by Randy Dryer, a social media attorney, which I attended. At the beginning of his talk, he asked how many...
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Searching on Twitter: health literacy
Twitter is the microblogging and networking platform where anyone can post (“tweet”) content or links to other content using only 140 characters. Topics can be labeled by putting a hash tag (“#”) in...
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Health literacy: the need for “plain talk”
Searching Twitter using the hashtag “#healthliteracy,” I came across an item that sounded exciting: “MAXIMUS Center for Health Literacy to Hold Conference in September: ‘Plain Talk in Complex Times.’”...
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Is Social Media Important for Libraries?
According to a recently released Nielsen report, the popularity of social networks and blogs continues to grow, and now accounts for “nearly a quarter of total time spent on the Internet.” Facebook is...
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InfoFair 2011: InterProfessional Education
Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Time: 3:00-6:00 p.m. Location: George and Dolores Eccles Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium Who: Nanci Murphy and others Presented by: Spencer S. Eccles Health...
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When health literacy needs information literacy
While searching for posts on #healthliteracy on Twitter, I found several feeds that tweeted or re-tweeted about an online “health literacy quiz” from a company called HealthEd. Below is the quiz: View...
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Using Social Media to Enhance Your Research
The Krafty Librarian blog (KL) has a thoughtful post on “Using Social Media to Enhance Research.” Blogs, wikis, Twitter and Facebook can be a rich resource for information about all kinds of topics....
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Promoting library services: the neverending challenge
In academic libraries, one of the ongoing challenges faced by librarians and staff is making patrons aware of the services we offer. This is especially important because we get new patrons every year:...
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Twitter at the State of the Union address
One of my favorite bloggers, The Librarian In Black (a.k.a. Sarah Houghton) had the opportunity to participate in a “State of the Union Tweet-Up” last night, which she describes in her latest post,...
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Information and health literacies and the media
Searching on Twitter for items on #healthliteracy and #healthlit, a link led me to an article in the Vancouver Observer (VO) on a new company’s website, “Healthism.com,” founded by “25-year-old...
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Teaching medical students to use social media at John Hopkins U
Margaret “Meg” Chisolm is a Twitter user, and an assistant professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. As a recent article in the Hopkins Gazette points...
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Using smartphones to boost healthy behavior against juvenile diabetes
As presented in a recent iMedicalApps post, Joseph Cafazzo, PhD PEng, and his colleagues at Toronto General Hospital, have developed bant (yes, it’s spelled all lowercase), a next-generation remote...
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New England Journal of Medicine’s mobile offerings
This week the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) released an iPad app that allows journal and NEJM.org subscribers to: Download the new issue each Thursday, and store all downloaded issues in a...
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Keeping Current with Social Media workshop on April 6th
Are you drowning in news? Can’t stay current with important information about your field? Do you wish there was an easier way to keep on top of what’s happening? Join us for ‘Keeping Current with...
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Didn’t need an app for that
In order to create a social media monitoring “dashboard,” the iLibrarian (a.k.a. Ellyssa Kroski) describes how to use Protopage.com to create a private web page loaded with helpful widgets — RSS feeds,...
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Using Twitter beyond Twitter: embeddable tweets
As noted in the Social Media Examiner blog, you can embed conversations from Twitter into blog posts. Unfortunately, the Twitter interface has changed slightly, so when you hover over the tweet you...
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