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Join a Weekly Twitter Conversation about Healthcare Communications and Social Media
The Healthcare Communications & Social Media community hosts a weekly Twitter conversation about communication and marketing practices by healthcare organizations, including use of social media. The Twitter conversation community meets on Twitter every Sunday night from 9pm/21:00 to 10pm/22:00 eastern US time. The Twitter hashtag for the conversation is #hcsm.
To participate: Use Twitter Search (or your favorite Twitter client - we recommend Tweetchat and Tweetdeck) to search on #hcsm. The moderator will ask everyone to introduce themselves at the start of the event then list the topics for discussion during the session.
To find out more:
Twitter: @healthsocmed - http://twitter.com/healthsocmed
Email: healthsocmed at gmail dot com
Celebrating One Year of Healthcare Conversation…One Tweet at a Time!
January 18, 2009
First healthcare communications and social media discussion begins after Dana M. Lewis jumps in on a discussion of health communications practices with Dan Fuoco and Arik Hanson. Dana and Arik agree to have a scheduled conversation on GChat. First participants: @cybersibesk, @danfuoco, @arikhanson, @danamlewis. Conversation covered: basic social media tools used by hospitals, what patients seek from healthcare organizations, opportunities for social media in healthcare.
January 20
First public Twitter chat announced for January 25, using Twitter hashtag #healthcomm.
January 25
Initial group heads to Twitter based on popular demand, begins using hashtag #healthcomm. Chat moderated by @danamlewis.
February 16
Tom Stitt (@tstitt) extends offer from @Aperial to support & host #hcsm web services to support Sunday night discussions and more. (This is Tom's point of no return, he's effectively acting as a #hcsm staffer going forward.)
March 3
@healthsocmed Twitter account created to moderate weekly discussions but a company named "HealthComm" holds the @HealthComm Twitter account and an individual has “@hcsm” Twitter account. Group adopts #hcsm as Twitter hashtag to avoid hassles.
March 4
Launch of #hcsm blog:
April 5
#hcsm compiles RSS feeds to assist in creating:
April 13
#hcsm information/news aggregation service launched:
April 30
#hcsm sponsors H1N1 (Swine) Flu website to aggregate H1N1 information from multiple sources:
May 29
Reed Smith (@reedsmith) donates services to create #hcsm avatar/graphics.
June 14
Chat focused on legal issues facing healthcare organizational uses of social media featuring guests Daniel Goldman (@danielg280), legal counsel at Mayo Clinic, and David Harlow (@healthblawg), healthcare lawyer/Harlow Group, reaches 1000+ tweet per hour intensity and is nicknamed the “fire hose” #hcsm chat. Various healthcare bloggers start to republish, summarize and comment on #hcsm sessions including @otoole4info, @HITshrink and @ctsinclair.
August 17
#hcsmeu, the European counterpart of #hcsm, launched by @whydotpharma and @andrewspong
November 5
#hcsm is awarded "Best Non-Profit use of Microblogging" 2009 Society of New Communications Research Award.
January 17, 2010
Celebrating one year of #hcsm Twitter chats @LeeAase joins as guest moderator with @DanaMLewis plus seven special guests bring topics (@nickdawson, @chimoose, @jonmrich, @lizasisler, @macobgyn, @ChristineKraft, @drval), first time audio is offered via BlogTalkRadio. Special event produced by Tom Stitt (@tstitt) and Meredith Gould (@meredithgould) with support from the team @Aperial. Perficient (@Perficient_HC) provides financial support for the audio production costs.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/healthsocmed/2010/01/18/special-hcsm-birthday-event-hcsmbday
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