I’m preparing a lecture on Practicing Medicine in the Era of Social Media, and created this word cloud for use in a slide. (I used Wordle) Thought I’d share it here in case anyone else needs it for a similar use. Or any use, really.
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Coolness! I bet that’s going to be an interesting talk!
What is your audience going to learn from the slide?
Bardiac –
Hopefully a sense of the complexity and how many areas are influences by social media.
I’m getting into using more images than words in my talks.
Peggy
Hi Peggy,
Nice image. But I’m wondering – what’s your source? Presumably the different cloud-generators have distinct algorithms for generating these images. But for any given tool, such as Wordle, the product is a result of what you select for input.
Elaine –
You are correct. I created a list of words, some words repeated multiple times based on how large I wanted them in the cloud, this based on their importance as I see it. The more times the word is in the list, the larger it is.
You can also give it any text and it will create a wordle based on the same algorithm of frequency. Also you can give it your blog URL and it will create a wordle on your feed.
Its really fun to do.
The slide is so useful! Social media connects real doctores and patients efficiently. I came across your blog and wanted to express my appreciation for the health content you provide, such as your post about the misconceptions of IUDs created by mass media. I believe that healthtap.com would be a fantastic complement to your blog because you can add your expertise to a repository of medical answers created by other MDs. Please take a look: http://www.healthtap.com.com
Thanks Melode. Prefer to keep it here on home turf. But thanks for invite. Best of luck with healthtap.
Peggy