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Here Comes Everybody I f there's anything more boring than social networking technology, it's social networking pundits. That said, one such pundit, Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations, makes a good point: Change doesn't happen when society adopts new technology, it happens when society adopts new behaviors. "Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring." -Clay Shirky Here at Clinical OMICS, we appreciate the observation all the more as we intensify our Twitter efforts. Twitter is boring. And we expect that it will become even more boring- at least until it finally becomes subordinate to user behaviors, which are interesting. ISSUE No. 3 MAY 15, 2014 Innovative Practices, Actionable Results At present, according to educators at Michigan State University (MSU), just 15% of researchers use Twitter, mostly to find collaborators and disseminate their work and the work of others. The MSU educators, disappointed that Twitter's potential for teaching remains dormant, actually called for universities to include social networking habits when meting out promotions and tenured positions. Mistake! If you want more social networking, just wait. It is becoming part of the background. Future Cancer Care Anticipating "Panomics" with Bioinformatics Bringing Informed Interpretation to Vexing Variants Best Clinical Apps Innovator: Leroy Hood New Products & More What could be more boring to researchers than self-promotion? Yet that is a key driver of the growth of Twitter among scientists. According to a study from the University of Miami, scientists are tweeting published findings to "communicate research to a broad audience of other researchers, decision makers, journalists, and the general public." A digital publication of GEN, a Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. company This result was accompanied by other revelations: "Twitter provides a large virtual department of colleagues that can help to rapidly generate, share, and refine new ideas. As ideas become manuscripts, Twitter can be used as an informal arena for the pre-review of works in progress." So, it appears that unabashed careerism may be accompanied by less selfish behaviors. "Although some scientists have mixed feelings about using Twitter for scholarly purposes, it's only a matter of time before the scientific community embraces social media," concluded one of the study's authors. Here at Clinical OMICS, we agree. We also make this promise: As we use Twitter to build a clinical omics community, we will remember our social networking forum is nothing special. What's special is the content. What's important is the growth of this emerging discipline. What's necessary is the emergence of new diagnostic and treatment options informed by clinical omics. www.clinicalomics.com Clinical OMICs on Twitter-as inevitable as it is indispensable. May 29, 2014 Clinical OMICs 5 https://twitter.com/ClinicalOMICs http://www.clinicalomics.com

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