Do you have a strategy for gaining new followers on Twitter? What is it? What do you think the next big trend in social media is and why? What is the most important trend in social media right now and why? One Per Cent: Twitter helps track cholera spread in Haiti. Niall Firth, technology editor (Image: Sipa Press/Rex Features) When disaster strikes, Twitter is always the first to know. Now a new study has demonstrated that using Twitter updates and online news websites to track a disease outbreak is not only quicker than more traditional methods - it's just as reliable, too.
In a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers studied the progression of a cholera epidemic in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010. The study's lead author Rumi Chunara, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, used an piece of software called HealthMap to monitor how many times the epidemic was mentioned online during the first 100 days of the outbreak - from October 20, 2010 to January 28, 2011. Her research team also looked at the number of posts on Twitter that mentioned the word cholera.
They discovered 4697 online reports via HealthMap in eight different languages, and 188,819 tweets. Infographic_socialmedia_61. Social media has role in delivery of healthcare but patients should proceed with caution, experts say. Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube can be powerful platforms to deliver and receive healthcare information, especially for patients and caregivers who are increasingly going online to connect and share experiences with others with similar medical issues or concerns.
However, these sites may lack patient-centered information and can also be sources of misleading information that could potentially do more harm than good, according to the results of two separate social media-related studies unveiled today at the American College of Gastroenterology's ACG) 76th Annual Scientific meeting in Washington, DC. In the first study, "Social Media for Esophageal Cancer Survivors," researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Florida found that social media is an important resource for patients and their caregivers who are facing important treatment decisions after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer and managing difficult nutritional and lifestyle issues after esophageal surgery.
Both Dr. Microsoft's Spindex aggregates Facebook, Twitter, and even Evern. Like Button. Posterous - The place to post everything. Just email us. Dead si. TrackinU lets you stalk Twitter users via geotagging. You know that geotagging your posts on Twitter lets people know where you are at the time of posting, but Twitter doesn't offer a way to turn those geotags into anything coherent, like a list or a map. That's where an iPhone app called TrackinU comes in. It converts geotagged tweets into map routes, showing where you've tweeted from. The app is designed to keep track of your friends, but some may worry that it has stalker-esque implications. I actually think TrackinU is cooler than it is creepy, but it's also easy to forget that third-party apps can do things that the Twitter Web interface can't.
TrackinU shouldn't be all that controversial, since geotagging is opt-in and entirely a user's choice. [via TheNextWeb] MeeGo v1.0 - MeeGo 1.0 now available for netbook owners. NodeXL. How to open a NodeXL Workbook created on a different machine By Marc Smith and Derek Hansen Microsoft Office applications have trust issues. When you download a NodeXL workbook from a different machine (perhaps from you may get an error like this one that mentions “trusted locations”.
This problem is caused by a lack of trust. Excel documents may contain harmful code (“malware”) and the solution Microsoft created was the idea of “Trusted Locations”. Only folders that have been identified as “trusted locations” will allow you to open Excel files that run embedded code, which are needed by NodeXL to run. Below are the steps needed to make a folder a trusted location. Step 1: Open Excel Options from the File Menu in Excel Select: Excel File Menu>Options The Excel Options dialog. Step 2: Choose the Trust Center tab on the menu on the left The Excel Trust Center dialog. Step 3: Add a new trusted location where you will store your NodeXL files Step 4.