A Social Media Congratulations to Digestive Disease Week 2011 #ddw11 #doctors20

Let's congratulate DDW11 for a very pro-active social media strategy.

YouTube channel : David Sack, a visiting gastro-enterologist at Digestive Disease Week 2011, did the above video interview, at the "win a Flipcam" contest at the conference.  The DDW organized the video recording of 32 poster presenters and of numerous physicians presenting highlights of the conference here.

Facebook: here is the DDW page  The FB page is another vehicle to tell the story of DDW and be where the audience is. 

Twitter:  1700 tweets approximately tell the story of Digestive Disease Week 2011. You can read the transcript here, gathered on FoxePractice

Téléchargement  #ddw11 - Healthcare Twitter Transcript »

So, if you didn't get to DDW11, you can't get it all online, but you can still get a real flavor for the information and the exchange among physicians, whether they or you were on site or not.

What does it mean for the future of congresses that so much information can be gathered on line. Surely, this is a good thing that gatherings of this nature can go beyond the onsite market. But, not everyone appreciates the transparency of the information and the availability for non-registered attendees...or even for the registered attendees. What will happen to all the publishers of online newsletters, for example?

Anyhow, go AGA, go!

Comments

[RyanMadanickMD]

Thank you for posting this! Several of us are hopeful that this was just a starting point. Even though there were only a few doctors actually livetweeting, it seems that there was starting to be some traction to it. We'll see!