3. Your hosts
Shelly Cory @VirtualHospice
Executive Director
Colleen Young
Awareness and Engagement Manager
www.virtualhospice.ca www.portailpalliatif.ca
4. What is social media?
It is the use of technology combined with social
interaction to collaborate, create and share.
5. Learn
"Simply put, social media has allowed me to
access ideas, thoughts and opinions I would
never have been able to before."
Prajesh Narendra Chhanabhai, @Zimbarama,
PhD Candidate, University of Otago; New Zealand
6. Connect & Collaborate
"Social media doesn’t just help me in my
research, it totally changed the way I
interact with collaborators."
Bertalan Meskó, @Berci, Physician, Founder
of Webicina.com; Hungary
7. Inform & influence
"People use social networking for health.
We need to connect, inform and inspire
them to affect change."
Mike Evans, @docmikeevans, Family Physician, Founder of
Health Design Lab; Canada
13. Twitter
• Peers and public
• Learn and inform
• Crowd-source information quickly
14. Dissemination acceleration
"Social impact measures complement
traditional citation metrics [and can be] a
useful and timely metric to measure the
uptake of research findings."
Gunter Eysenbach, @eysenbach, MD, Senior Scientist, Editor-in-
chief & publisher of JMIR; Canada
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16. Blogs
• Peers and public
• Articulate what we do and think
• Share opinions