Introduction:
Digital revolution has made the information dissipation easier than ever before. A strong emergence in digital age is the concept of social media.Social media helps in communication, interaction, sharing and gaining of information between people in different locations. Social media is the new definition for networking. Social media is the best tool available for networking.Users should be aware of the advantages and challenges while using social media.
Social media is a major platform for dissemination of knowledge among nephrology community. With diverse and rapid progression of science, social media is an easy and user-friendly mode reaching masses across the global countries. Apt utilization of social media activities would enhance the kidney knowledge , enables sharing of scientific information. International Society of Nephrology has initiated diverse activities on social media to engage the followers. Activities include tweetorials, quiz sessions, twitter based case chat , Xspace sessions, visual abstracts and video abstracts .
Methods:
AIM : To analyze the utilization of various social media activities of ISN
MATERIALS AND METHODS : Utilization of each social media feature was analyzed based on impressions, engagements, listeners , likes, participants etc. Each social media activity is distinct from other in its reach and utilization.
Results:
Among the various social media features , highest number of activities were with video abstracts. Of the video abstracts , Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Biosynthetic Impairment and Urinary Metabolomic Alterations Observed in Hospitalized Adults With COVID19-Related AKI had highest views. The Quiz session on COVID 19 AKI had maximum number of visitors. Among the spaces, Pregnancy matters had maximum number of listeners. And ,visual abstract on Green dialysis garnered highest views and the abstract on measurement of albuminuria gathered maximum engagements.The engagements, impressions, likes and retweets were highest for the tweetorial on Non-infectious complications of peritoneal dialysis (PD) .Interesting cases on ECNeph platform had maximum tweets and impression for the case on Kidney transplantation -infectious complication.
Though the platforms are diverse and cannot be compared on single parameter, it is clear that the reach of activities is wide and vast. Such activities help in networking , sharing, and empowering the nephrology fraternity. Encouraging trainees at early career stage would reinforce the scientific motivation. However, the scope of utilization of each feature should be further strengthened with special focus on utilization in LMICs.
Conclusions:
Social media activities are highly engaging and learning platforms for Nephrology community. To further improve the global attention ,the scope of reach and utilisation should be further focussed upon. Nurturing the younger generation in such activities would lead to a stronger scientific impetus in forth coming digital years.
I have no potential conflict of interest to disclose.
I did not use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process.