As has become a July 4th tradition, the healthcare IT social media community comes together to recognize the incredible people on healthcare social media that influence their lives. It’s called the #HIT100 and happens on Twitter with people nominating the people that influence them for good. It’s really simple to participate and a great way to show some gratitude and love for someone you appreciate. Here are the details from the official announcement:
Required hashtags:
(Each nomination should have all of these)
- #HIT100 or #HIT99 (One or the other is required)
- #HealthIT (Optional)
- #HITsm (Optional)
Optional hashtags:
(Please use only one of them so that the analytics have value)
- #FHIR (Optional)
- #Interoperability (Optional)
- #PersonalizedMedicine or #PrecisionMedicine (Optional)
- #Genomics
Some rules will change this year due to the analytical tools being put in place for the first time:
NOMINATION RULES:
- Nominations start
Friday July 1st 2016 at 6PM and end on Friday July 8th at 6PM- Only one person at a time may be nominated. Multi-nominations in one tweet will not be counted though they might form part of the analytical information base
- Only direct nominations will be counted. Retweets will not be counted though they may be analyzed for further enjoyment
- Favorites will not be counted though they may be analyzed for further entertainment
- There will only be one cycle of nominations. No delegates or super-delegates here
- I reserve the judgement to disqualify a nomination that I find suspicious for any reason
- You are encouraged to include one of the optional hashtags above so that we can process with analytics to get some statistics about each one of them
- You can add a sentiment to the end of the nomination
- You must have fun and please follow each other as you discover new members of our community
If that’s too confusing, here are a couple examples. You can copy and then edit as appropriate.
I nominate @ehrandhit to the #HIT100 list – #HealthIT #HITsm #FHIR – Because they curate amazing content!
I nominate @techguy to the #HIT100 list – #HealthIT #HITsm He offers great insights into #PrecisionMedicine
Join in the fun and recognize your favorite people on social media! Happy 4th of July!
Hmm so is this a beauty contest? hard to fathom how people who take selfies or tweet more than others are leaders in the industry?
Heichert,
If you look at most of the list you’ll see that it’s not a beauty contest. I made the list, so that should be example enough.
I agree that some people’s nominations were sketchy. It’s certainly not a great process and I’ve always argued that the placement on the list doesn’t matter as much as the list itself. The list itself is pretty interesting since it shows who’s active on social media. That said, you still have to pare down the list to make sure that it’s good for your needs. It’s nice for discovering new people though.
I also agree that more tweets or selfies doesn’t make you a leader. More tweets just makes you noisy depending on what you’re saying.