The Board Room #3: Where’s the streamed STM content?
Many thanks to Jon Brassey and Ben Toth for taking the time to share their perspectives on and enthusiasm for this outline concept. Tagged: medical, Publishing, scientific, STM, STM publishing,...
View ArticleReasons why you should care about spam followers
Mashable has been getting a very strong response to the story they ran earlier today (“Twitter correcting follower counts: 1000s of spammers perish“) regarding Twitter’s recent cull of spam accounts....
View Article10 best practices in social media
I followed this event in real time yesterday via the social radio network BlogTalkRadio, although I’ll confess I only became aware of it after seeing the hashtag #BDI appearing in the posts of...
View ArticleNICE work, if pharma can ‘get’ it
On 22nd July, a report entitled Appraising the Value of Innovation and Other Benefits: A Short Study for NICE (344KB PDF; 52pp.) was published by Prof. Sir Ian Kennedy. In February 2009, Sir Ian was...
View ArticleThe Board Room #4: 6 behavioural modes that social media can cultivate
Tagged: behaviours, medical, Publishing, scientific, social media, STM
View ArticleUse #hcsmeu to join the European healthcare and social media discussion
Silja Chouquet from whydot pharma and I had a great discussion about the state of the European social media landscape in healthcare at the beginning of this week. We realized a couple of interesting...
View ArticleTurning the Twitter world upside-down
I’ve been corresponding with Mike Clarke of the Clarke Publishing Group as to how the numerous Twitter ‘pay-for-followers’ services may work, and what customers think they’re getting out of them. The...
View ArticleHow to participate in tweet-ups and conferences in real time using Tweetdeck...
Is there an easy way to turn Twitter into a real-time conversation tool in order to follow conference back-channel discussion or live tweet-ups such as #hcsmeu (Fridays, noon UK time, 13.00 CET)? The...
View ArticleMendeley: An interview with Victor Henning
Despite being extremely busy with final preparations for Science Online London, Victor Henning, Founder & Director of the company behind the popular academic research management tool Mendeley was...
View ArticleResearchGATE launches a self-archiving repository
Despite the somewhat self-congratulatory tone of the tweet that announced it (come on, folks, at this moment in time it’s ‘A’ rather than ‘THE’ “green route” to Open Access’, right ), I appreciated Ben...
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