Hospitals Using Social Networking Tools
Social networking tools are increasingly being seen not only as personal applications for creating connections between people, but for creating presence for organizations such as libraries and, even, hospitals. Ed Bennett, Director, Web Strategy at the University of Maryland Medical System and David Ekrem, Manager, Web Development at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children maintain a list–Hospital Social Network List — of hospitals that use social networking tools to create bridges to their users. The list draws a line between the official sites of the hospitals and those created by hospital “fans,” including only those that they felt were created by the hospitals themselves. If your own hospital is not on this list and uses some of the tools they track, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, they invite you to alert them via email at ebennett@umm.edu.
For information on how they created the list, please visit the FAQ available on the website.
