DJP Update 12-3-2011 A few words about Twitter & some tweets
Lots going on and my communication of late has been with interviews and speeches PLUS tweets. I did a media tour in Ohio following the AMA Interim Meeting in New Orleans. That is reason for lack of recent DJP Updates.
As in in the past, I encourage you to get on Twitter. You don’t have to send tweets. One option is just to follow people and news organizations. The short messages they sent are limited to 140 characters, including spaces.
These tweets come to your smart phone or to your computer or both. You merely have to select a free or minimal cost software program that receives the tweets. I keep two such programs on my iPhone 4S: Twitter & Echofon and one on my MacAir 11″. Echofon has a few extra features either one or some other competitor will suffice for just viewing tweets. The tweets go to that software and not to your email so don’t worry about the tweets filling up your email.
If you have an iPhone, just go to iTunes and “Apps” and put in twitter in the search engine. Also, if you don’t see Echofon show up, put Echofon in search engine and it will show up. When given the choice of free version or PRO version for a few bucks, get the pro version. But if you just want to follow tweets, the free Twitter app works fine.
I previously recommended to you an excellent small book that tells you everything you need to know to tweet like a pro. It is available at Amazon:
The Twitter Book [Paperback]Tim O’Reilly (Author), Sarah Milstein (Author)
4.8 out of 5 s
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If you see an interesting tweet, you can “retweet” it. That shows up as RT followed by the name of the person who did the original tweet. I posted a few examples below with the other tweets.
The advantage of Twitter is to get immediate information about news items or items you are interested in, such as #photography or #PPACA or any hobby etc. You thus will learn the same news that shows up on the evening news and frequently you will learn it hours in advance. To get “Followers” you have to tweet something of interest to the people or companies who elect to follow you.
Here are some selected tweets recently that I posted. As you will see below, my tweets usually are about #PPACA, #hcr, #photography, #gadgets, #leadership, #MedicalLiabilityReform and #quotes PLUS the New Orleans #Saints. To see them all, go to www.twitter.com/DJPNEWS
Inside most tweets, you will see a link that takes you to an article. Also, a neat search mechanism is to click on a hashmark item, such as #PPACA and the twitter search engine will take you to hundreds or thousands of tweets with that same # hashmark included in the tweet. Very easy way to find other sources of information on a topic. INFORMATION is power! Add wisdom to the learned information and you are on the road to leadership.
When at my Twitter site, look to the right and you will see some recent photos I posted to Twitter. Double-click on images to enlarge. Also, I have some of the same plus others at www.twitpic.com/DJPNEWS
When I post to the twitpic site, it also gets posted to my Twitter site.
Here are my stats on Twitter including the 3,482 tweets I have sent out and the 418 people/organizations following my tweets.
3,482Tweets
418Following
415Followers
NOTE to all medical and specialty societies: Send me your Twitter name so I can follow you. I get great tweets from @texmed & Tim_Stapleton (FMA) & @FloridaMedical & #GaSACS & @DPalmisanoMAG & @MAG1849, & @LaMedSoc
You also can follow @AmerMedicalAssn, @AMNews, @oreilly_amnews and @AAPSonline to get a various perspectives on health system reform in addition to Heritage, Galen Institute, WSJ, Washington Post, etc.
A top individual physician tweeter to follow is #Sonodoc99 He covers the #hcr and #PPACA as well as medical liability reform extremely well.
Some of the tweets that I sent today and one from Dec 1 about the Texas medical liability reform
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DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Nice! #photography #landscape RT @instapundit: 100 INCREDIBLE VIEWS OUT OF AIRPLANE WINDOWS….: http://bit.ly/sb0dUN
57 minutes ago
jstrevino Joshua Treviño
by DJPNEWS
George Will declares that conservatives need to take a second look at Perry …. and Huntsman: wapo.st/suMQb9
2 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Ethics RT @sonodoc99: @DJPNEWS @AAPSonline WH needs to come clean on Kagan & #PPACA washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-w… #SCOTUS #recusal #verisimilitude
3 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
All is well. Keep up the great reporting! RT @JenHale504: @DJPNEWS thanks! Hope you’re well!
3 hours ago
gracemarietweet Grace-Marie Turner
by DJPNEWS
George Will is exactly right in his Sunday column, “The economy is choking on ObamaCare.” It’s killing jobs & growth! tinyurl.com/6mw3cgl
4 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Terrific #App at iTunes store for maps: National Geographic “World Atlas”; works well on iPhone; can expand globe to get details. #map
4 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Sad. = why NPSF.org formed. #safety RT @DPalmisanoMAG: Nurse Gives Patient Paralytic Instead of Antacid tinyurl.com/74wcwwp
4 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Print via Internet or WiFi AirPrint. #gadgets RT @digigeeky: HP to offer Apple printer exclusive bit.ly/tfujKV #gadgets
4 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Via @texmed Grandma and the Big Bad SGR! ow.ly/7Loiw Video we’ve been waiting for from @b_n_tx #MedicareMeltdown
4 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Philip Howard, author of best-selling “The Death of Common Sense”, nails regulations @WSJopinion tinyurl.com/d7m4ejy More at CommonGood.org
4 hours ago
Here is one about my nephew, Dr. Michael Brown, who sang at my AMA Inauguration.
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Check out Michael Brown’s new album TRAVEL TIME mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London. http://tinyurl.com/bpz66ug #music #creativity #Freedom
8 hours ago
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DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
@WSJopinion @Peggynoonannyc The Comeback Kid of 2012; noted wordsmith crafts provocative opinion @newtgingrich & #POTUS tinyurl.com/d76boa9
8 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Reduce meritless suits: elim contingency fees; lawyer accountability for suits without merit (peer review & new rules for countersuits) #law
9 hours ago
DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
@WSJopinion “The City of Unbrotherly Torts” | Replace lucrative contingency-fee with LegalAid for needy & per-hour price-fixing = end prob.
9 hours ago
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DJPNEWS Donald Palmisano
Res ipsa loquitur #Prop12 #ContingencyFee #MedicalLiabilityReform RT @texmed: Tort reform benefits speak for themselves http://ow.ly/1BjPHo
1 Dec
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On the road again Monday. Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Stay well.
Donald
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