This seems like a good time to revisit:
LIAM’S RULES FOR LIVE-TWEETING CONFERENCES.
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Respectful debate fosters good dialogue. Key word: Respectful. (Exception: Seth) (also: Minh).
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Tweet only what’s NEW, SURPRISING, or CONTROVERSIAL. If I can find it in Rosen or Tintinalli, it doesn’t belong in a tweet.
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Exception: particularly funny, pithy or memorable statements of accepted wisdom. Those never get old.
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Give me context. Is this big? Have we finally refuted NINDS? Is Ketamine BAD after all? Is this a pro tip/trick? Is this info for learners?
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TELL ME WHY I CARE. Don’t just give me a factoid in isolation. If there’s not a reason to care — don’t tweet. Jesus. This should not be hard
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Citations are over-rated. Give me a link or don’t bother.
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OTOH: If you intend to look up & tweet a link during a live lecture WTF are you doing stop it and listen to the lecture.
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You’re not a research service, OK? It’s twitter. Put it out there and anyone mildly familiar w Google can look it up if they care.
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PSA: If you, dear reader, are taking learning points from twitter w/o independently verifying, please turn in your license & stop practicing.
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Only tweet good lectures. If topic/speaker is meh, don’t tweet out of obligation. Instead, browse twitter; RT anyone but Seth. (also: Minh)
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Great visuals are great. A nice photo of the speaker: A+. An off-centered blurry speck in the distance? Less so. If pic doesn’t add, don’t.
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If you are tweeting every slide of a lecture, YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG and you should feel bad.
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Slides: If I can’t read it, don’t bother. Check to see if the syllabus is posted online. Then you can tweet individual slides or (if open) just send out the link to the syllabus.
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If you MUST take photos of the slides, use an app like YouCam Snap or Office Lens — they are like magic. They straighten out, de-skew and crop the slide image, making it much more legible.
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Consider slide quality. Follow @ffoliet rules. If it’s messy garbage, illegible or full of citations you’ll never look up, don’t. Just don’t.
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Summary slides or “take home messages” are far more valuable than the 37 slides that preceded them.
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Better: distill the speaker’s “take home” into, you know, the THING YOU WILL ACTUALLY TAKE HOME. In your own words.
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Is there a “Call to action”? Those lectures are great. Tell me what you are going to DO with the lecture.
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“I finally realized apneic oxygenation is voodoo. I’m not bothering with it any more.” For example. (I’m still dong it.)
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Don’t tag the speakers unless you have a question for them or a comment you want them to see later.
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If you are tweeting a single lecture: (•_•) <) )╯Thread / \ \(•_•) ( (> Your / \ (•_•) <) )> Tweets / \
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Thank you for reading this far. Now go and tweet responsibly. Use your awesome powers wisely. Enjoy
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