Monitoring health related activity on Twitter: Tips for individuals, organisations, campaigns and conference organisers

Over the past year I have been learning and adapting methods for studying and summarising social media activity around health conferences and awareness campaigns.

This blog ties up that work, bringing the key pieces of work together in one place. My hope is that other people and organisations can use these techniques to plan, monitor and evaluate their own social media activities.

I am taking a sabbatical over the next few months, returning to the front line of clinical work in a care of the elderly unit in a large teaching hospital. I will not be able to extract and analyse tweets between April and July (inclusive). I will continue to monitor selected campaigns that relate to the clinical attachment (eg #EndPJParalysis and #EndPJParalysis which recently announced a 70 day campaign, beginning 17 April 2018).

This blog lists the main learning points from my activities over the past year, with links to the relevant blogs.

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