MedInfo 2010 Meeting in Cape Town (Sept 12-15)

A group of us have put together a workshop on Social Media for the 2010 MedInfo meeting in Cape Town, South Africa. Here is the description:

In this Medinfo 2010 workshop, participants use social media to build an online community before the Congress, and then at the Congress discuss both that experience and research findings regarding

1. potential benefits for underserved populations,
2. privacy risks,
3. ethical considerations, and
4. evaluation of online communities.

The workshop online community and online consumer support groups are compared and contrasted. The particular social media used are an e-mail list, a blog, a Facebook group, and Twitter (hashtag is #medinfo).

You can view the abstract for the workshop here.

We'll post information about the workshop instructors in a later post. Stay tuned for more posts here.