Posts Tagged ‘hashtag’

Mark Polly, Director at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post on how we can use hashtags to help make cancer information more searchable for those that need it.   Over on Symplur.com, Dr. Michael Katz talks about connected health care. In this blog post, Hashtags in Cancer Care: Embedding Meaning in Digital Health, he proposes […]

Over on Symplur.com, Dr. Michael Katz talks about connected health care.  In this blog post, Hashtags in Cancer Care: Embedding Meaning in Digital Health, he proposes a more formal set (“ontology”) of hashtags for cancer information.  While hashtags have traditionally been a means of spontaneously organizing Twitter  tweets, I think Dr. Katz’s idea has a lot […]

Last week Facebook debuted its anticipated hashtag feature allowing both users and brand pages to leverage hashtags in post updates. Similar to Twitter’s hashtag functionality, hashtagging a word within the Facebook platform allows that word to be clickable in News Feeds. When clicked, Facebook reveals a stream of updates with that #word. Alternatively, users can […]