Social Media in Clinical Practice: Chapter 16, Social Bookmarking

When I realized Springer made the individual chapters of my book, Social Media in Clinical Practice, available, I thought it would be useful for future readers to get some insights about each chapter one by one.
Here is the short summary of what you can read about and an excerpt of the sixteenth chapter, Social Bookmarking:
Communication with patients and colleagues and being up-to-date in a field of interest can be time consuming and solutions saving time and effort are very much needed in the medical profession. It is also a common case that medical professionals have to work on different computers, laptops or mobile devices such as smartphones or tablets and synchronizing information is challenging.

The main features of social bookmarking websites and services
Examples of social bookmarking sites

Chapters that have already been covered:

Chapter 1, The Introduction
Chapter 2, Medical Search Engines and Google
Chapter 3, Being Up-to-Date in Medicine
Chapter 4, Community Sites: Facebook, Google+ and Medical Social Networks
Chapter 5, The World of E-Patients
Chapter 6, Establishing a Medical Blog
Chapter 7, The Role of Twitter and Microblogging in Medicine
Chapter 8, Collaboration Online
Chapter 9, Wikipedia and Medical Wikis
Chapter 10, Organizing Medical Events in Virtual Environments
Chapter 11, Medical Smartphone and Tablet Applications
Chapter 12, Use of Social Media by Hospitals and Medical Practices
Chapter 13, Medical Video and Podcast
Chapter 14, Creating Pre...

Source: ScienceRoll - February 15, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Authors: Bertalan Meskó (MD, PhD) Tags: Medicine Medicine 2.0 Social Media in Clinical Practice Web 2.0 Source Type: blogs