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Like a good Hegelian, leading medical tweeter @jenmccabegorman knows that the use value of a tweet is not contingent upon the amount of time you spend gathering, processing or redistributing the data you use, but what you produce in its synthesis.

Consequently, it is on the synthesis of your data – the crafting of your idea - that you should expend the majority of your effort.

‘DPSR done right’ – it’s all about the ideas.

Please read this article; it’s a model of good micro-blogging practice.

Omnee’s strap-line makes this useful Twitter directory sound wholesome, and it is.

Connecting with like-minded souls on Twitter is getting easier, thanks in no small measure to such tools as this. You can find full instructions here, but the principles are simple.

Begin by following Omnee on Twitter.

Next, send a tweet using the hashtag #omnee and a list of tags you wish to be associated with, prefixed with a +. For example:

#omnee +ebm +health2.0 +hospitalist

Delete your association with the tags by tweeting #omnee once again, this time prefixing the tag you wish to disassociate yourself from with a -.

Now, enjoy the benefits of following Omnee by entering tags in the search bar on the Omnee homepage, and see who shares your interests. Click on other users’ icons to be walked across to their Twitter account, review their posts, and follow them if you perceive an affinity between you. 

Interestingly, the healthcare tweeple community has been one of the first to embrace the Omnee concept, as the tag cloud in the attached image file demonstrates.

Latest statistical evidence from regarding Twitter from Techcrunch:

• 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008
• 20% of Twitter users have joined in the past 60 days
• The average user has been on Twitter 275 days
• The most popular days of the week to Tweet are Wednesday and Thursday
• An estimated 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts are registered each day.
• Only 5 percent of all Twitter users have more than 250 followers.
• Only 0.8 percent have more than 1,000
• 22 percent have five or fewer followers
• Another 24 percent (the largest group) have between 11 and 25 followers

Thanks to @problogger for the link.

This six-point programbrings some much-needed clarity of thought to the thorny question of how companies can roll out social media agendas across their corporations, and make their usage mandatory – as far as is practicable, anyway.

How effective this program would, as usual, be an issue, with the small and nimble finding such an agenda easier to achieve than the large and less flexible.

It also doesn’t help larger content providers get better handle on how to capitalize on the flow of information internally and turn good ideas into customer-facing business models.

Thanks to @BartCollet for the link.

A useful crash-course in how to make social media work for you.

Thanks to @TalstoneDJ for the link.