Davita Podcast
Back in August, I went to Denver to spend a couple of days with the social media and communications teams at Davita. Davita headquarters is really cool. I loved getting a chance to peak behind the curtain into the inner workings of a professional communication team. I loved hearing the war stories of how they reacted and responded to the John Oliver dialysis piece. My overall impression was one of a well run and professional organization staffed by talented people. Dialysis mortality in the US has fallen 25% over the last 16 years. This didn’t happen by accident.
One of the highlights of going to Denver was recording a podcast with Dr. Provenzano (@DrBobPro). Robert Provenzano is one of my oldest mentors. I first met him as a first year fellow at the NKF Spring Clinical Meeting in Chicago. A year later he hired me to work for St Clair Nephrology, the practice where I am now a partner. He has been a constant advisor and advocate. It was a pleasure to chat social media with him.
This podcast just launched on iTunes last week. I think it turned out pretty good. Take a listen.
New types of scholars for Generation FOAMed
Interesting article on new roles for scholars to play in the promotion of evidence based medicine. (PDF)
All star team of writers too:
If that interests you, take a look at the role of Medical Journals in the Age of Ubiquitous Social Media by again by Trueger. The article has this line that hit particularly close to home:
some journals take the “meta” step of publishing articles about physicians’ social media use, which are often then shared to great acclaim on social media
Something we have seen with our recent Social Media paper in Kidney International Reports.
The Dark Side and Light Side of Social Media
This is the topic that I was asked to speak about at the International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis meeting in Vancouver. I have never had to speak specifically about the negative aspects of social media in medicine, though I have addressed in previous lectures. I thought it was a good exercise. Here is the talk:
Here are the presentation files:
Social Media in Nephrology Education “Article in Press”
Big review by a great group of people from #NephTwitter. This was a fun article to write. Nice to see those three perfect words…
And open access to boot!
Lecture: Social Media and Health Care
Social Media and Healthcare (Keynote)
- Huge slide deck that can be mixed and matched for use with different audiences
- 639 MB for the Keynote file and 62.6 mb for the PDF
- Find references, links and meta information here.
- Alternate form of the lecture for a transplant audience (Keynote | PDF)
- This was an audience of social workers, nurses, transplant recipients, and policy experts.
- Lecture is cut down to 30 minutes
Lecture: Journey to NephMadness
Clay Shirky on publishing
Saw this on Twitter (thanks Brian):
for #bioPeerReview, my favorite thing ever said about publishing, by @cshirky https://t.co/mNamuztdvX pic.twitter.com/T1nAsniQu8
— Michael Eisen (@mbeisen) February 8, 2018
I retweeted it, but sometimes a retweet is not enough.
Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done.
It’s so good I think I will publish it, and by that I mean press a button:
Video of my social media and medical education talk
Here is my Renal Grand Rounds from Duke that I gave this October.
Here is a copy of the most recent version of the deck (Keynote, 912MB) from the University of Michigan talk I gave last week.
Tricks of the trade: How to insert a tweetstream into a Keynote presentation
If you are doing a talk on social media there will be moment when you want to show a Twitter chat or Storify on a slide. This can be tricky to do quickly. Here is one technique that I use.
Inserting a Storify (or Tweet Stream) into a Keynote presentation from joel topf on Vimeo.
- Make sure Storify is using the Storify Template rather than the slideshow template.
- Enter the “Print” dialog box
- Set the magnification to 10%
- Save as a PDF
- Insert the resulting PDF into Keynote
- Use Mask to remove the large whate space covering 90% of the page.
- Increase the width by ten-fold to bring the tweets back to actual size
- Drag the image so it is completely above the slide
- In animation set the picture to build in by “Move in”
- Edit the Build so it builds from bottom to top.
- Change the build in time to as long as you want 8-12 seconds depending on how much detail you want people to read.