This information is over 2 years old. Information was current at time of publication.{"id":3414,"date":"2010-06-11T10:48:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2010-06-11T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:48:34","slug":"the-national-library-of-medicine%e2%80%99s-social-media-tools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.hsls.pitt.edu\/updatereport\/the-national-library-of-medicine%e2%80%99s-social-media-tools-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Library of Medicine\u2019s Social Media Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NLM\"<\/a>You\u2019d expect the largest medical library in the world to be on Facebook. And so they are.<\/p>\n

If you are one of the National Library of Medicine\u2019s 1,443 admirers and visited its page during the first week of May, you could have listened to Director Donald A.B. Lindberg\u2019s podcast<\/a> about progress on electronic health records or learned about a recent Friends of the NLM conference, The ePatient: Digital and Genomic Technologies for Personalized Health Care<\/a><\/em>. Soon after the page debuted in February, you could have learned about NLM\u2019s Haiti Earthquake People Locator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019d know that NLM\u2019s favorite pages include that of its own National Center for Biotechnology Information<\/a> (NCBI), plus those of NIH <\/a>and CDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NLM has been expanding its social media presence<\/a>. You can now choose among 9 Twitter and 7 RSS feeds, in addition to the aforementioned Director\u2019s Comments podcast<\/a>. First, Twitter:<\/p>\n