Social media evangelist rouses HIMSS CIO Forum. Physicians don't have enough time to fully educate their patients during patient visits. Therefore, they should use social media and every other online communication avenue to do a better job for their patients. That was the message that pediatrician Wendy Sue Swanson delivered today to energized attendees at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives CIO Forum on Monday. A dedicated proponent of new media, Swanson practices what she preaches as a part-time physician at the Everett (Wash.) Clinic, Wash. She blogs as Seattle Mama Doc on the Seattle Children's Hospital website and also makes brief videos about health issues.
In addition, Swanson is activce on Twitter and Facebook and uses the social media sites to interact with her patients, although she does not discuss any particular patient's health problems. Sign up for our FREE newsletter for more news like this sent to your inbox! Her own rules on using social media are pretty straightforward: Ragan Communications. Items tagged as "Ragan Communications" Start Discussion 3 ways to deal with a patient’s online rampage featured at Summit Editor's Note: This post by Jessica Levco originally appeared on Ragan's Healthcare Communication News and previews the 5th Annual Health Care Social Media Summit in October, which is part of Social Media Week at Mayo Clinic. Each time you log on to your hospital’s Facebook page, you’re never quite sure what you might see.Facebook is [...]
Created by Randy Schwarz Summit Spotlight: Why we encourage our employees to use social media Editor's Note: This post by Jessica Levco originally appeared on Ragan's Healthcare Communication News and previews the 5th Annual Health Care Social Media Summit in October, which is part of Social Media Week at Mayo Clinic. Why YOU Should Come to #MayoRagan Webinar - A Social Media Primer for Physicians WBNR 114 - Transform your hospital communications with brand journalism Day 2: Pre-Conference Workshops Created by Lee Aase.
Social media has its place in health care, but use caution - Health IT Pulse. Sep 12 2011 10:33AM GMT Posted by: JeanD social media There is room for Twitter and Facebook in hospitals, as long as such social media tools are used with caution, say information managers. Use of social media is prevalent in many industries, and health care is no exception. As more tools are used, providers are asking for help in developing social media policies. Hospitals turn to social media for marketing, health events communication and education, but view social media tools less as an avenue for patient communication. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Parkland would understand the need for building more robust sources of information.
The struggles have had a negative impact in the local news, but Parkland is using its Facebook page as well as its website to continue to keep the community up to date on its action plan and to explain its work. Building Your Personal Brand in Social Media to Connect with Opportunity. ViewPublication. No time like the present to create a health care social media policy - Health IT Pulse.
Aug 30 2011 12:32PM GMT Posted by: Beastwood CDC, patient data security, social media, Veterans Affairs Last week’s East Coast earthquake proved the power of social media to report disasters, as millions took to Twitter and Facebook to report that they felt the earth move under their feet. Hurricane Irene also highlighted the importance of social media and disaster preparedness. Social media, then, is here to stay. Admittedly, disaster preparedness isn’t the reason for creating a health care social policy. The real reason is the cost of getting health care social media wrong. Use the 3 C’s of Social Media: Content, Community, Commerce. If you are running a small business today you better be using social media marketing. Social media has taken over the internet over the past few years. The great thing for small businesses is it’s all about the one-on-one connection, larger companies no longer have the upper hand. You must listen, engage and then inform. While social has given people a way to stay connected to friends it has also given small business owners the opportunity and power to network strategically.
Once you have identified your niche target customer, it is crucial to utilize the three C’s of social media: content, community, and commerce. Content The first C to implement in your social media marketing efforts is content. There is no point in using social media to drive traffic to your company’s website if you have nothing new to offer when they get there. Blogging can be a great way to maintain a regular flow of fresh content. Community The next C of social media is community. Commerce Ask and answer questions. Build Your Online Brand to Connect With Opportunity.
The "Dumbness of Crowds" « Female-friendly tech shirts | Main | Reverse-engineering user reviews » The "Dumbness of Crowds" Community. Wisdom of Crowds. Collective Intelligence. Jaron Lanier, in his controversial Edge essay Digital Maoism, has a great quote: "In the last year or two the trend has been to remove the scent of people... " All geeks-and-personal-hygiene-jokes aside, we need the smell. By "crowd,", I think he meant "more people", sure, but he also defined a big ol' set of constraints for how much togetherness people can have before the results became dumber.
Web 2.0 and putting the Community in Control One of the high-profile concepts of the Web 2.0 meme is community. What's the difference between Collective Intelligence and Dumbness of Crowds? "Collective intelligence" is a pile of people writing Amazon book reviews. "Dumbness of Crowds" is a pile of people collaborating on a wiki to collectively author a book. "Dumbness of Crowds" is expecting a group of people to create and edit a photo together. Cable Industry showing they are out of touch with the upcoming generation. EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help | Electronic Frontier Foundation. Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights. EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just sit by and watch.
This patent could threaten the vibrant community of podcasters and millions of podcast listeners. We want to put a stop to it, but we need your help. The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media. " In order to bust this patent, we are looking for additional "prior art" -- or evidence that the podcasting methods described in the patent were already in use before November 19, 2003. EFF's Patent-Busting Project has taken on ten of the worst free-speech and innovation crushing software patents approved by the U.S. Related Issues: Patents [ Permalink ] We Need to Engage Directly with Our Customers. They are the Ones that Count. | Omar Ha-Redeye. Social Media Power - #TedxSV is on now.
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Collegiate entrepreneurship is indisputably on the rise. More students seem to value the growth of their own assets over assisting the growth of others and are as a result seeking ventures in lieu of jobs. In support of this trend, universities are becoming increasingly encouraging of entrepreneurial activity, launching new programs, competitions, organizations and other initiatives.
The results are outstanding: there are nearly 7,500 new startups each year from the top 25 entrepreneurial schools alone. While entrepreneurial programs are strong and flourishing amongst undergraduate programs, the same has been observed in the top 25 graduate programs. When Talking About Business Models, Remember That Profits Equal Revenues Minus Costs. There is no shortage of discussion about Internet business models these days. And they almost always focus on revenues. But revenues are only half of the value creation equation. The other half is costs. Let me explain. So with that simplification, the value of a business is approximated by 10 x (revenues – costs). Chris Anderson wrote a very good piece in today's WSJ called The Economics Of Giving It Away. Meanwhile YouTube is still struggling to match its popularity with revenues and Facebook is selling commodity ads for pennies after its effort to charge for intrusive advertising led to a user backlash. Chris goes on to suggest that Internet entrepreneurs are going to have to get people to step up and pay for something instead of just giving everything away for free because advertising isn't going to foot the bill for every company.
Let's look at Craiglist. The web can do that in more than one company. Facebook also comes to mind. Within3. Memes as Mechanisms: How Digital Subculture Informs the Real World | Department of Alchemy. Why do we still believe in group brainstorming? So you need some fresh, innovative ideas. What do you do? Get a group of your best thinkers together to bounce ideas of each other…? No, wrong answer. Time and again research has shown that people think of more new ideas on their own than they do in a group.
The false belief that people are more creative in groups has been dubbed by psychologists the ‘illusion of group of productivity”. Bernard Nijstad and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam argue it’s because when we’re in a group, other people are talking, the pressure isn’t always on us and so we’re less aware of all the times that we fail to think of a new idea. To test their theory, they recruited hundreds of students and asked them, either on their own, or in differently sized groups, to think of as many ways as possible to boost tourism to Utrecht. The researchers said “We suggest that working in a group may lead to a sense of continuous activity.
Link to related research report (page 3 of 4): Why Twitter's New Security Solution Could Pave the Way to a Future Web of Mashups - ReadWriteWeb. Microblogging service Twitter's habit of playing fast and loose with user passwords may be coming to an end, if a technical trial started today can be successfully implemented by its development team. Earlier this month, the company saw the accounts of users from Barack Obama to Fox News to Britney Spears get "hacked.
" More importantly, millions of Twitter users hand out their passwords to strangers every day, because there's no other way to access the fabulous ecosystem of applications built on top of the famous Twitter data platform, or API. Today Twitter opened up trial access to a new user sign-in protocol for third party developers - until it was swamped by demand and the trial was closed just two hours later. This isn't just a geek story, though, this could impact all users of Twitter and other sites all around the web.
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