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Joel Topf, MD FACP
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One thing I love about #KidneyWk in a brief tweetorial #AskASN
#KidneyWk and @ASNKidney never created a social media team or official social media ambassadors to cover the meeting.
So much of medicine is permission based, but there is no one to ask permission of off you want to tweet about #KidneyWk. There are no social media credentials or badge needed to complain about a speaker, a #manel, or Comic Sans on a slide #AskASN
Back in 2010 when it was only a handful of us tweeting the meeting it felt a little subversive to tweet, like we were sticking it to the man. #AskASN
I love that that @ASNKidney recognizes those origins and realizes that establishing official tweeters or social media ambassadors would trample that original democratic ideal. #AskASN #KidneyWk
I love that @ASNKidney recognizes the beauty in the chaos of totally unregulated free speech on twitter and while some may complain about commercial messages and selfies polluting the pure educational sp[igot of the hashtag #KidneyWk I find them easy to ignore #AskASN
And love the random noise and energy of #KidneyWk every November. #AskASN
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