04 August 2010

overlapping online communities

Our online community is bumping up against a couple others. First, on Twitter, the hashtag we planned to use, #medinfo, is mostly in Korean. I think another community is using it for "medical information". Maybe we should switch to #medinfo2010 to disentangle us.

Second, the Medinfo2010-AMIA2010-bridge is "a collaborative group environment for exploring common themes in international health and biomedical informatics linking the Medinfo2010 and AMIA2010 conferences, and beyond". It seems duplicative to me to have discussions about the same issues going on in different places, but we need to use the structure we proposed, and I think they're committed to using grou.ps, so we may just continue to overlap. At least we know about each other!

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