Comments on: Comparing b2b communities from the medical imaging industry

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:27:49 +0000

Please feel free to quote my post in your blog Alex. You can find me on Twitter at stuartgh.

By: protoeco

protoeco — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:42:08 +0000

I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?

By: Ron Sweeney

Ron Sweeney — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:04:56 +0000

Great write up, thank you. We integrated ARSt, a Radiology Teaching Facility (http://www.advancedradteaching.com, @arsteach ) for real-time new case release to twitter as they are published, it was fun seeing the traffic that came back by referral after we added the RSNA hashtag to the publishing method. Though the move was guilty of a “One way Twitter”, we saw very good results on referrals, and felt the subject matter was non-commercial and purely academic, which may have attributed to its success. This was a fun integration and was happy to see it in lights, and glad to see the participation.

By: Guy Shechter

Guy Shechter — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:33:49 +0000

Hi Stuart: Thanks for picking up my analysis. I agree with you that we intuitively expect that the majority are readers. Nonetheless, the question remains: how ready is a given community (say, radiologists) for social technologies? I attended the KMWorld 2009 meeting a few weeks before RSNA, and, when comparing the two meetings, I had a gut feeling that the social interaction was much more pronounced at KMWorld09 than at RSNA09. That’s what inspired me to try to quantify my observation, only to find that the KMWorld09 tweets had already disappeared from the Twitter feed. And so, we’re left with the RSNA09 analysis, which I hope to benchmark against additional conferences going forward.

By: Stuart Glendinning Hall

Stuart Glendinning Hall — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:49:10 +0000

Thanks Roland, looking forward to your updates. For my part apologies, I've been delayed in finishing this blog with the key comparison part with my contract with SiftGroups coming to an end on the one hand, and winning an innovation award for our community metrics part on the other! So to the comparison analysis. ~~I've login protected them for now - the password is community.~~ Hope they are of use to you:

1. AuntMinnie analysis post.

By: Roland Talanow

Roland Talanow — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:44:02 +0000

Thank you very much Stuart. I think one of the reasons of the popularity is that Radiolopolis implements tools developed BY radiologists and technologists FOR radiologists and technologists. (Not by webdesigners without medical background who usually don’t understand the “practical” needs of this specific audience.)

In example, we just implemented several new programs (right after the RSNA meeting): an online (on-the-fly) DICOM converter, an automatic differential diagnosis program for thoracic imaging and several additional modules for accurate cancer staging.
More to come…

If you want, I’ll keep you updated. (Otherwise I don’t want to make the impression to spam your blog)

By: forex robot

forex robot — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:00:22 +0000

great post as usual

By: Kotja

Kotja — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:19:29 +0000

Dear Author http://www.stuart-hall.com !
It doesn’t matter!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:56:30 +0000

Hi Roland, that’s great to hear. Sounds like you are experiencing some impressive rates of community growth by offering members the kind of facilities they want.

PS: I saw a tweet from RSNA to say your party was really rocking too!

Best wishes,

Stuart

By: Roland Talanow

Roland Talanow — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:58:05 +0000

Stuart, thank you for mentioning Radiolopolis.com.
Indeed and although it’s the “youngest” in the radiology community “family”, a lot of efforts were made to make it truly unique. We implemented many previously awarded educational, research and practical tools (some even awarded at the last RSNA meeting). This and the true interactivity and interconnectivity (real time chats, on-the-fly consultations, case sharing, quizzes, mock boards etc.) is a reason, why we encounter a logarithmic increase of new members – that’s what they want! We launched the site end of February 2009 with 1-2 new members each day, in June about 5 new members a day to now having between 15-20 new registrations. Just this fact is really awarding and motivating to us to add more of these features into this free radiology community.
If anybody has suggestions please contact radiolopolis@edurad.org