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Hospital Social Media participation guide

So you have a hospital blog, now what? The more contributions you have to your social media effort, the more engaging you will be. No one is an island, and it would be nearly imposable for one person to represent an entire hospital or health system. Fortunately, the nature of social media is that everyone [ READ MORE ]

Pork Project – its back, for real this time

There are a few truths in life – death, taxes, jackalopes, freedom and the equality of all humans. Ponder that list, study it. Notice what is missing? Bacon. Maybe its sausage, maybe its a nice pate or a pickled trotter; regardless it is time to liberate our swine. Proclaim porcine freedom! What am I blathering [ READ MORE ]

A good time for a hard conversation – Engage With Grace

  • November 26th, 2009
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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Its all about family and food. Does it get much better? Sure, Christmas has gifts, and Halloween has candy, but Thanksgiving comes with very few strings attached – you show up and eat. We show up to talk. We show up to enjoy each others company and remind ourselves, no [ READ MORE ]

Notes from Central Va Healthcare Exec Group talk posted

Once a month, a who’s who of central Virginia healthcare execs convene for CVHEG – the Central Virginia Healthcare Executive Group. The CVHEG is the local chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. The group represents a wide swath of healthcare professionals. Recently, I was privileged to address the group as part of a [ READ MORE ]

What we post today…

  • October 29th, 2009
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I have been thinking a lot lately about the relative importance of social media. Actually, I have been thinking about history. Really, what we know about history is what was recorded by the people who thought those particular details were favorable or important. What’s the old saying? History is written by the victors. In a sense, the [ READ MORE ]

Spent day scrubbing @lanrvr’s hard top in prep for painting. World of difference with just TSP and a brush

  • October 11th, 2009
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A foodies Christmas list

Just saying is all…. It has been the year of the cookbook. Last year’s releases of Grant Achatz’s Aleina set the new standard for uber food pr0n: At $32.00, Aleina broke the mold of the $150 high-end celebrity cookbook. And once the flood gates were open, it has been no holds bared for frugal foodies. [ READ MORE ]

#SMHC notes posted

Notes from today’s ALI conference on healthcare and social media are now online here[ READ MORE ]

If you liked that…

Then you’ll love this…. (in response to this social media dashboard) Part time social media contrarian and full time big thinker Phil Baumann released his own social media dashboard. What I like about Phil’s dashboard, besides the no-nonsense language, is the emphasis on action. Phil is an advocate of the ‘just do it’ mentality; and [ READ MORE ]

Social Media Metric Dashboard

It is an anathema, the taboo topic of the healthcare social media circles;  they are three little letters that can cause more angst than almost any other aspect of planning and deploying a social media strategy – ROI. There, I said ‘em. Regardless of your feeling on metrics and ROI, they are a topic that [ READ MORE ]

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