Othman Maha, Cormier Matthew, Barnes Geoffrey D, Comer Shane P, Connors Jean M, Denorme Frederik, Khorana Alok A, Las Casas Pedro Henrique, Morla Shravan, Muia Joshua, Ní Áinle Fionnuala, Taylor Kirk A, van der Wal Dianne E, Weyand Angela C, Lavin Michelle
Biomedical and Molecular Sciences School of Medicine Queen's University Kingston ON Canada.
School of Baccalaureate Nursing St Lawrence College Kingston ON Canada.
Res Pract Thromb Haemost. 2021 Mar 8;5(2):253-260. doi: 10.1002/rth2.12478. eCollection 2021 Feb.
As a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), like many societies around the world, canceled their in-person hematology congress planned for Milan, Italy, in July 2020. As a result, the first virtual ISTH congress in the organisation's 51-year history was delivered, inviting free registration from across the globe. As part of the social media support, marketing, and scientific dissemination efforts for the virtual congress, the ISTH assembled a group of official Twitter Ambassadors, which represented the broad and diverse ISTH community. Ambassadors were tasked to tweet daily throughout the congress and to share their commentary on the hematology research being presented with the "#ISTH2020" hashtag. Ambassadors were also supported by Twitter activities from the two official ISTH-affiliated journals: the () and (). In this forum and through the Twitter ambassadors' lens, we present the Twitter Ambassadors' experience, reflect on the impact of social media on the ISTH 2020 congress, and share this experience with the wider scientific community. Specifically, we report on the role of Twitter communication for virtual meetings, discuss the pros and cons of the virtual congress, and offer Twitter-related recommendations for future virtual or blended congresses. We conclude that the ISTH Twitter Ambassador program broadened social media engagement and offers a novel route to improve social connectivity in the virtual research congress setting.
由于2019年冠状病毒病大流行，国际血栓与止血学会（ISTH）与世界上许多学会一样，取消了原定于2020年7月在意大利米兰举行的面对面血液学大会。结果，该组织51年历史上的首次虚拟ISTH大会得以举办，并邀请全球免费注册。作为虚拟大会社交媒体支持、营销和科学传播工作的一部分，ISTH组建了一组官方推特大使，他们代表了广泛而多样的ISTH社区。大使们的任务是在大会期间每天发推文，并使用“#ISTH2020”标签分享他们对所展示的血液学研究的评论。两位ISTH官方附属期刊：《》和《》的推特活动也为大使们提供了支持。在这个论坛上，通过推特大使的视角，我们展示推特大使的经历，反思社交媒体对ISTH 2020大会的影响，并与更广泛的科学界分享这一经历。具体而言，我们报告推特交流在虚拟会议中的作用，讨论虚拟大会的优缺点，并为未来的虚拟或混合大会提供与推特相关的建议。我们得出结论，ISTH推特大使计划扩大了社交媒体参与度，并为在虚拟研究大会环境中改善社交联系提供了一条新途径。
