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Five questions with Mayo Clinic social media chief Lee Aase

Attendance at this year’s Health Care Social Media Summit , which kicked off Monday and continues through Wednesday at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has more than doubled from last year. And many of the summit’s 375 attendees have been keeping the Twitter stream #mayoregan flowing with something like 100 tweets an hour today. That’s because more healthcare organizations are taking notice of what others are doing with social media and seeing the need to collaborate on new ways to implement social media throughout the healthcare system, according to the director of the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, Lee Aase . Aase is part of the team that has helped Mayo Clinic establish itself as the poster child for healthcare social media. http://medcitynews.com/2011/10/five-questions-with-mayo-clinic-social-media-chief-lee-aase/
Remember “Who shot JR?” I certainly do. In 1980 I was only 10 years old when the iconic episode of Dallas captivated the nation and the world – too young to stay up to watch it.

How Social Networking Is Reviving Communal TV Viewing

http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/10/01/how-social-networking-is-reviving-communal-tv-viewing/
Though it certainly seems like most if not all of the 2011 NBA Season will be put on hold, the Phoenix Suns are gearing up for a new social media marketing initiative, one incorporating every major social network as well as the introduction of a very new reporting position. http://socialtimes.com/with-new-initiative-phoenix-suns-seek-first-ever-social-media-sideline-reporter_b79708

With New Initiative, Phoenix Suns Seek First Ever Social Media Sideline Reporter

It was no contest on this particular Sunday… Sporting events dominated the Social TV Top 10 Leaderboard. The matchup between the upstart Detroit Lions vs. the disappointing Dallas Cowboys took the #1 spot, with 178,000+ social media comments. And not only did NFL Football take the top 3 spots, it took 8 out of the Top 10. Two Major League Baseball playoff games (St. Louis Cardinals vs.

Clean Sweep: Sports Dominates Social TV Leaderboard | Bluefin Labs

https://bluefinlabs.com/blog/2011/10/03/clean-sweep-sports-dominates-social-tv-leaderboard/

Coca Cola Is Accelerating Its Social Maturity | InnovationManagement

The winning agency will be responsible for formulating a consistent way of keeping track of what consumers are saying across Twitter, Facebook and other channels about all of Coca-Cola’s brands in North America. http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2011/09/02/coca-cola-is-accelerating-its-social-maturity/

The Amazing Race Checks In With Foursquare

CBS has rolled out a new Foursquare brand page for its hit reality show, The Amazing Race . http://mashable.com/2011/09/16/amazing-race-foursquare/
The United Nations (UN) and its philanthropic arm, the United Nations Foundation, have been on a headlong sprint to change the world by 2015. That year marks the deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, a set of far reaching and ambitious humanitarian challenges that include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and providing universal primary education. They are lofty goals for sure, but ones that the two organizations are committed to achieving. http://mashable.com/2011/09/15/un-foundation-social-good-interview/

How the UN Foundation Plans to Meet Its Goals With the Help of Social Media

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Mark Cuban on Music and Sports

http://www.craveonline.com/sports/interviews/167361-mark-cuban-on-music-and-sports
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110408/14381713831/journalists-are-aggregators-too-thats-good-thing.shtml A few weeks ago, when the NYTimes' Bill Keller bizarrely compared Arianna Huffington to a Somali pirate , we noted that journalism is a form of aggregation as well.

Journalists Are Aggregators Too (And That's A Good Thing)

By DANIELLE WAUGH March 30, 2011 Social media jobs are everywhere: just ask Charlie Sheen . The search is still on for Sheen's "Tiger Blood intern." It doesn't necessarily sound like a legitimate job, but his social media intern posting on Internships.com generated thousands of applicants, and is yet another example of a growing trend: businesses that hire employees to manage social networks. One of Sheen's applicants was Anthony DeWitt, a junior journalism student at Arizona State University.

Jobs For Social Media Strategists

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/jobs-social-media-strategists/story?id=13246140#.UVfyJ9GI70M

Multiplatform Expected to Be Focus of Attention at MIPTV 2011

Gary Smith, senior reporter for the MIP Publications , has written an excellent analysis on the new content paradigm and 2011's buzzword - Multiplatform - over at MIPBlog titled Multiplatform deals galore expected at MIPTV - a great piece reflecting the seismic shift in the content industry, due to massive disruption as media convergence becomes a reality.

Media Industry | Market Analysis and Trends

Overview article but a little bit dated. The part about 3D TV probably described real 3D projections, not what we are seeing. I believe. by mkrochmal Feb 18

Scholarly Readings in Social Media