BACKGROUND Social media can be used in health care settings to enhance professional networking and education; patient communication, care, and education; public health programs; organizational promotion; and research. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the use of social media networks for the purpose of professional development among health care professionals in Saudi Arabia using...

Usage of online social business networks like LinkedIn and XING have become commonplace in today’s workplace. This research addresses the question of what factors drive the intention to use online social business networks. Theoretical frame of the study is the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and its extensions, most importantly the TAM2 model. Data has been collected via a Web Survey among us...

Background: Human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) is an applied discipline and a profession that demands ecologically valid and practical research. However, there is concern that while HF/E research may be meeting the needs of researchers, it may not have fully met the needs of practitioners nor made a high impact on practice in the ‘real world’. This suggests that there may be a discordance betw...

While the prevalence of various dermatologic journals on social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are increasing, the activity of dermatologic journal podcasting has yet to be investigated. To determine journal social media impact, on June 2, 2012 we examined over 102 journals listed by SciMago (www.scimagojr.com/) for any podcast activity on the internet. Dermatology journ...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a mainstream cultural phenomenon for millions of Internet users. Combining user-constructed profiles with communication mechanisms that enable users to be pseudo-permanently “in touch”, OSNs leverage users’ real-world social relationships and blend even more our online and offline lives. As of 2014, Facebook had 1.32 billion monthly active users and it ...

In recent years supervised representation learning has provided state of the art or close to the state of the art results in semantic analysis tasks including ranking and information retrieval. The core idea is to learn how to embed items into a latent space such that they optimize a supervised objective in that latent space. The dimensions of the latent space have no clear semantics, and this ...

Social media are one of the most valuable management tools used by sport managers in fulfilment their daily tasks. However, studies that share and analyse impact educational experiences incorporate social into education for professional purposes scarce to date. Thus, this study presents an innovation piloted a course where LinkedIn—the associated with sphere—is introduced through experiential l...