Social media maven Bertalan Meskó and Webicina are running an interesting competition right now. Here is the low down, ‘straight from the horse’s mouth’:
We receive hundreds of suggestions from empowered patients and medical professionals every week about which social media resources should be included in our selections, and we thought we must find a way to let them know how much we appreciate their help.
So now we kindly ask you to tell us your story about how social media helped you improve your health management or helped you get better in your specialty in order to win grand prizes.
As we curate resources in basically all the social media platforms, you can tell your story in any platforms from Twitter and Facebook to blogs and Youtube. Your submissions will be reviewed by an expert jury, members of the Webicina Advisory Board. The very best of these stories will get great publicity.
Judging from the comments we received on Do you use Web 2.0 in clinical decision making? there are plenty of LITFL readers with stories to tell. In order to win you have to tell your story in an engaging and creative way using any social media platform, and you have to do it between the 2nd November 2011 and the 30th November 2011.
To find out all the ins and outs, get over to Better Health or ScienceRoll now.
There are great prizes to be won: computers, ipads and kindles….
But you’ve got to be in to win!
About Chris Nickson
Nice!
I have a bunch of stories to share, we have used IT at our workplace to make significant improvements for inner communication between big group of doctors-always-busy and opened up possibilites of sharing experiences in ways not eve thought of earlier. Although we can thank social-media some of it, there are other, more general IT tools like Google Groups, Google Docs, Dropbox etc which have had more impact than the social-media platforms.
So before writing a story, how do you actually define social media -- does it include all the other less known IT tools we are seeing in the Web 2.0 revolution?
I consider collaborative web-based tools such as google docs very much part of social meda…. You’d have to check with the Webicina crew to see if they agree…
C