social web media

Yesterday I got together with 4 colleagues from the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research to do a Science AMA on Reddit. If you don’t know what Reddit is, this is a good place to start. AMA is short for ‘Ask Me Anything’ and is basically a session during which a person (or persons) of interests sits down […]

A couple of weeks ago I was playing around with the idea of setting up a forum for our researchers to discuss and share ideas on communicating their science. My initial instict was to use Facebook, mostly because it seems to be the preferred social platform in Denmark in general. But is it the preferred […]

A while ago we had a few cases of this strange behavior from Instagram: A user makes a post on Instagram in which they mention @medicalmuseion – and shares said post to Twitter. In the corresponding tweet the handle (@medicalmuseion) was replaced by the handle of a seemingly random museum staff member. I was never able […]

I have started a small experiment on Tumblr. To collect the online culture of Medicine. Using the simple, but amazing IFTTT (it really does put the internet to work for you!) I’ve set up a number of automated recipes that collect content from a number of sources: Instagram, Youtube, Flickr, and Twitter. The original idea […]

This post was originally published on the official blog of the International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, held in Manchester 22-28 July, as an appetiser for the paper “Understanding social media in STEM museums: the lessons from establishing a bio-hacking laboratory” that I co-authored with Karin Tybjerg and which Karin presented in the […]

Have you heard about Yammer? If not, you are not alone. Many people, who are otherwise familiar with social media like Facebook and Twitter, haven’t. The reason for the relative obscurity of this social network service, which was launched in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2012, is probably that it is designed for communication within […]

Today I had the pleasure of being invited to a talk at The National Museum by Jonathan Wichmann from Maersk Line. I got the invitation from Ida Gustav and Linea Hansen, so kudos to them 🙂 Maersk Line have had immense success on social media and reaching levels of fans/likes/engagement that the rest of us can […]

My proposal for a talk at Museums & The Web 2013 – published here: Many museums have already embraced social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. as a means of interacting with their audiences. However, for many institutions the main goal of using social media is still only branding, marketing and redirecting traffic to main websites. […]

I can’t think of a more appropriate place than Twitter to come across an article about the use of social media to disseminate public health information. I regularly do a Twitter search for ‘public health social media’ and very often come across new interesting initiatives, reports, meetings etc. Today’s finding was the article Putting the Public […]

For the past year, I have here, at the Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Public Health, been working on a research project focusing on the use of social media in the communication of research in public health sciences. The technical report, completed by myself and Professor Thomas Söderqvist, is now ready, and I’m […]

On Monday 29 October we’re hosting a meeting in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences main building on social media in medical research and practice. Social media have conquered society. They are now also making their way into medical research and practice. What can doctors and researchers gain from using social media? How will […]

Last week, I was invited to give a speech about the future of science communication at a dinner arranged by the Center for Healthy Ageing here at the University of Copenhagen. The terms for the speech were harsh. I got a mere five minutes between the entree and the main course — and I wasn’t […]