Zoltán CserhátiUniversity of Debrecen

Medical School and Health Science Center

Debrecen, Hungary

The beginning…I am a medical student in Debrecen. I play in

the university volleyball team and I like reading, driving.

My life changed in the autumn of 2008…Why?I began to attend to the world's first med

2.0 course, the aim of which was to show the newest and easiest ways of using the internet in my medical studies and work.

The reason why I started to attend this lecture series was partly because I had heard that it was a unique course. On the other hand, I have always been so excited about the world and the future of internet.

Now, making this presentation, I am thinking about how difficult it is to give a summary of all the branches and services of web 2.0.

This is beyond my scope, Bertalan Meskó, M.D. is the one competent to deal with this.

But I should mention a few basic things which made a good impression on me.

What does social media mean to me?

I am sure that anyone who makes a web 2.0 or social media presentation begins with showing what it is at all. Well, I will not.

I will demonstrate – through my personal experiences – the excellent services I use every day. Those which are necessary for a student in the 21st century.

I will show you how the use of internet will become more simple in your everyday life.

From the view of a medical student

I decided to start with a Hungarian personal blog – called „Thinking and Reasoning – from the view of a medical student” (MeReNgŐ OkfEjtéS… - Egy medikus szemszöge)

There are many ways of creating a blog and managing with it. I heard about a lot of methods for it during the course.

I had simple plans. My goal is to help those people who are looking for authentic medical news on the Internet.

I would like to share my favourite health news with everyone. So, I have begun…

The first steps…I registered on blog.hu, and I have become a

medical blogger. It was a long time for me to learn how to post or share something. There are lots of rules what you need to keep. For example:

I use different websites as sources and I always mark them in every post. It is an important rule to keep as you can confirm the authenticity of the information you supplied by this.

I use simple and clear words. I noticed that my style and my point of view is changing continuously.

I use my real name and my own opinion. I pay attention to give some advice as well, however, I always do it carefully, as I am a medical student and not a doctor yet.

First blogpost:2008.10.13.

Posts: 183

PageRank: 4.

Visitors: 26.657

Medicina OnlineThe next step was to create something that was

useful for everyone, especially for medical students.Me and one of my my colleagues, Anita Brojnás

M.D. decided to make a study collection helping us to learn on-line. We collected materials for all medical university courses, and selected the best e-learning sites as well.

One of them is called Medicina Online, which is a dynamically developing site containing English and Hungarian links, medical videos, pictures and cases.

We collected links from other medical schools as well.

First blogpost:2009.02.27.

PageRank: 3.

Visitors: 10.187

Links: 322

On weekdays…In my opinion you do not need to browse 50-60

sites on weekdays. Choose only some simple ones and use those! the!

What was my plan? I did not have any serious plan, I only followed social media. Maybe my blog is not so succesfull and popular yet, but the range of those showing interest to it is becoming wider and wider. I spend a lot of time with blogging and surfing on the internet. From the very beginning I always write enthusiastically about my topics. That’s the secret.

There are a lot of web 2.0 applications that I can use.

Here are the bests of them! Try these!

WebicinaFirst of all, let me show you the Webicina! It is the most relevant, curated, medical social

media resource. It contains 80 medical topics, refers to 3000 resources and you can reach it in 17 languages.

You can dynamically follow its resources through PeRSSonalized Medicine that is a free, easy-to-use, multi-lingual aggregation of quality medical information, which lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles about a medical specialty or a medical condition in one personalized place.

I think this is the easiest way to follow the medical news. I am plesured that my Hungarian blog can be found among its cited medical blogs.

FacebookMaybe the best site for sharing something

or to have good connections.More than 800 million active users. More

than 50% of the active users log in to Facebook every single day.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest one.

Roughly 1 billion pieces of content are shared daily. You can share everything from and about your blog.

Source: facebook.com

Source: marketinggum

June 2011: 200 million tweets per day.

460.000 new accounts each day.

The speedest way to get to

know something.

LinkedINLinkedIN currently has 135 million professionals

around the world - November 2011.LinkedIn counts executives from all 2011 Fortune

500 companies as members; its corporate hiring solutions are used by 75 of the Fortune 100 companies - September 2011

1 new member joins LinkedIn every second.

More than 2 million companies have LinkedIn Company Pages.

The best site for looking for a job.

Source: linkedin.com

WikipediaWikipedia currently has 14 million articles

online.If Wikipedia were made into a book it would

have 2,25 million pages.This is a dynamic Encyclopedia of the 21st

century. You can write articles or edit anything. Just mark your sources!

The best place to start with.

Source: Omobono.com

RSSRSS users read significantly more online news than

non-users, visiting an average of 10.6 news sites, in contrary with non-users visiting only 3.4 news sites.

According to FeedBurner, which manages 44,000 podcast feeds, they now total 1.6 million podcast subscribers.

FeedBurner released statistical data last year showing that about 65.6 Million users were subscribed to RSS feeds through their service.

The best way to follow something or somebody with attention. It is my favourite, I follow more than 100 sites.

Source: http://rssdiary.marketingstudies.net/

YouTube3 billion videos watched on youtube every day.48 hours of video are uploaded every minute.The best format of your videos.

Source: youtube.com, slideshare.net

SlideshareThe best way to share presentations,

documents and professional videos.55 million visitors monthly and 120 million

pageviews. It is amongst the 200 most visited websites in the world.

Conclusion„We don’t have a choice on whether we DO

social media, the question is HOW WELL WE DO IT.” by Eric Qualman

The message…

„That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Um, once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.” by Steve Jobs

ContactWrite me an e-mail: cserhatizoltan@gmail.com

Follow me on Twitter: csharles

See my videos on Youtube: merengookfejtes

Check my profile on LinkedIN

Medicina Online: http://medicinaonline.blog.hu

Thinking and Reasoning – from the view of a medical student: http://gondoldujra.blog.hu

Thank you for your attention!