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Background: Approximately 80% of research evidence relevant to clinical practice never reaches the clinicians delivering patient care. A key barrier for the translation of evidence into practice is the limited time and skills clinicians have to find and appraise emerging evidence. Social media may provide a bridge between health researchers and health service providers.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of social media as an educational medium to effectively translate emerging research evidence into clinical practice.

Conclusions: Social media may be an effective educational medium for improving knowledge of health professionals, fostering their use of research evidence, and changing their clinical behaviors by translating new research evidence into clinical practice.

J Med Internet Res 2015;17(10):e242

If guessing is required for finding the optimal frequency, then at least we can be making educated guesses. Here's our research on the ideal amount to post.

Twitter est une véritable mine d'informations, mais tous les messages publiés sur la plateforme ne sont pas d'une extrême pertinence. Current.ly va justement vous permettre de faire un tri et d'extraire la substantifique moelle de vos thèmes préférés.

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Social Media sites these days are playing a very significant role in society among different communities and different age groups of people. Let`s take a look at the stats and facts in details.

The pharmaceutical world has been flocking to Twitter, just like the rest of the universe, often in an attempt to draw attention to new scientific discoveries aiding in the treatment of disease or to connect with others in their field.

However, Twitter’s popularity has not only benefited the legitimate side of the pharmaceutical industry. A study released in December, supported by both the Global Health Policy Institute and the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies, found an empirical link between all Twitter content and content aimed at the illicit drug sales. A survey of two week’s worth of posts shared on Twitter, involving the analysis of more than two million tweets, turned up 45,000 tweets which encouraged drug abuse. The survey found that more than three-quarters of tweets both pertaining to the non-medical use of prescription medications and including a hyperlink to a sales affiliate related to the anti-anxiety drug Valium.

Après avoir maîtrisé LinkedIn, Twitter est LE réseau social à utiliser pour : suivre l'actualité et rester à la pointe de son activité, agrandir son réseau, augmenter sa visibilité et sa notoriété, et ... beaucoup s'amuser aussi !

This is an interview for Byline, a crowdfunded independent media platform that gives you a personalized newspaper. The platform beta-launched on April 14th. You can read the original interview here.

Seung-yoon Lee is co-founder and CEO of Byline. He was the first East Asian President of the Oxford Union, the world's prestigious debating society, and is a contributing editor to The WorldPost. 

Three decades ago, Prof. Noam Chomsky, who is seen by some as the most brilliant and courageous intellectual alive and by others as an anti-U.S. conspiracy theorist, penned his powerful critique of the Western corporate media in his seminal book "Manufacturing Consent," with co-author Edward S. Herman. The book had a profound impact on my perception of the mainstream media in my teenage years, and was crucial in some ways to my decision to start Byline with my co-founder Daniel Tudor. By cutting out the advertiser and political bias of the proprietor, we believed that crowdfunding had the potential to democratize the media landscape and support independent journalism.

In "Manufacturing Consent," Noam Chomsky posits that Western corporate media is structurally bound to "manufacture consent" in the interests of dominant, elite groups in society. With "filters" which determine what gets to become "news" -- including media ownership, advertising, and "flak," he shows how propaganda can pervade the "free" media in an ostensibly democratic Western society through self-censorship. However, lot has changed since then. We now have the Internet. The so-called legacy media organizations which have been "manufacturing consent" according to Chomsky are in massive financial trouble. Has any of his analysis changed? I recently interviewed Noam Chomsky at his MIT office, to find out his views on the current media landscape.

La fin d'année approche. Nous vous livrions, la semaine dernière, des astuces en termes de contenu et de planning pour cette période particulière de l'année. Concentrons-nous aujourd'hui sur la mise en place de jeux promotionnels réussis et engageants sur les réseaux sociaux.

De nombreuses marques intègrent les jeux-concours à leur stratégie marketing de fin d'année. Pour mettre toutes les chances de réussite de votre côté, nous partageons ci-dessous  l'infographie réalisée par ShortStack. 

Pour les non-anglophones, voici les 18 étapes pour construire de meilleurs jeux-concours, listées dans la langue de Molière.

" According to an Infographic by Twilert, which analyzed Twitter for brand engagement by users, summarized data points and stats emphasizing on the vitality of Twitter in brand marketing. A few more interesting findings are listed at the article link. "

This handy infographic from the team at renderpositive is intended to help small businesses to understand how to use Twitter better, and how can it help your business connect with potential customers, amplify your brand message, and ultimately grow.