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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 ]

Very special part of the Dawson family featured on NPR

  • September 12th, 2009
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What an amazing tribute – NPR’s Weekend Edition featured a story on a very special part of our family. A few months ago I wrote about Greg Dawson’s Hiding in the Spotlight. The book is the story of Zhanna and her sister, their survival during the Holocaust and how important music was to that survival. [ READ MORE ]

Welcome Ireland Report Readers!

If you made it here as a result of my piece in the July/August edition of the Ireland Report, Welcome! In fact, if you made it here for any reason then thank you and welcome! It is an exciting time for healthcare. We are at once in the midst of a national discussion on the [ READ MORE ]

Willets Wedding pics

  • August 25th, 2009
  • Posted in photos

Susan and I spent a beautiful weekend in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains celebrating the wedding of two close friends – Bram and Martha. The pics are on Flickr as always. While the highlight of the weekend was watching two friends say “I do”, I also got a kick out of some photography [ READ MORE ]

Social Pulse published in The Ireland Report

Social Pulse, my white paper on healthcare and social media has been published in the latest edition of The Ireland Report from the Snowmass Institute. From their site, the Snowmass Institute: “specialize[s] in providing an annual, nationally-aclaimed women’s health conference for hospitals/health systems-based women’s health, nursing, marketing, operations, and strategic planning professionals.” Their bi-monthly newsletter [ READ MORE ]

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