by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter, Twitter Lists
I’m enjoying my use of TweetDeck this month. Right now, I am just focusing on using it for # Hashtag monitoring and engagement. Next month I will experiment a little more with it, especially in the context of my list structure. And the key challenge for me? As with...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Physician Career, Social Media, Twitter, Writing
On Twitter, I am active in two Twitter communities: the medical community and the writing community. The hashtags which represent the medical community can be broad (ex. #medtwitter and #physician), disease-focused, (ex. #obesity and #diabetes), conference or...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Social Media, Twitter
I just completed a month Twitter-free—from the day before Thanksgiving through the day after Christmas. It went well, and I believe it helped me in three ways. First, it freed up significant time. Being active on Twitter does require periodic monitoring, especially if...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals, Social Media, Twitter
Once a year, I take a substantial break from Twitter—I put it in a box. This year I stopped using Twitter the day before Thanksgiving and I intend to keep off of it until the day after Christmas—roughly one month. I don’t do anything fancy to achieve this...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Social Media, Writing
Lately, I have been seeing scare quotes used frequently in both blogging and social media. Although they can impart a sense of irony, they are usually used as a clever shorthand to indicate disbelief or disdain, often in a nasty way. (I am ashamed to say I have used...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Goals, Politics, Social Media, Social Media Ethics
Creating an international economic and political solution to global warming is difficult—perhaps the most difficult problem humanity has ever faced. Mocking the people who are trying to do this in a speech by saying blah, blah, blah is easy—but infantile and...
