Thursday, January 29, 2009

Twestival-Twitter Gives

Twestival
On 12 February 2009 100+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water.

Twitter for B2B

Global Neighbourhoods How IBM and others are using Twitter to communicate to employees and partners

So many Tools to Choose from

Friendfeed-review by SheGeeks

Destroy Twitter

Brightkit
HootSuite

Twitter AP Wiki

Monday, January 26, 2009

Twitter usage catches up to Digg

Interesting HitWise article
Not surprisingly, Twitter usage is high among 25-34 year olds. Now here is the surprise: it is also pretty high among the 55+ crowd (and low among the teens)!

What consumers are saying about you online

Online Reputation Management
What do you do when someone says something about the service they received at your hospital or practice? What if it's bad? Do you respond? Do you have a plan? Hey, what if it is good? that could happen! Wouldn't it be nice to reach out to those people too!

Media On Twitter

Media on Twitter Wiki
Resource of current Twitter contact information for journalists and bloggers

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Community, Sharing Website

The Experience Project

Interesting website that helps people meet one another based on what they are sharing

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Story Sharing

Events of the Heart Web site link
Interesting example of a community, story sharing website
Link

Friday, January 23, 2009

Links about Social Media and PR

Can Twitter Unite Journalists and PR?

Website Usability for Media

Pitchengine

Old Church, New Media

http://www.youtube.com/vatican
The Vatican on YouTube!

10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter With Your Website

http://nettuts.com/articles/10-awesome-ways-to-integrate-twitter-with-your-website/
Twitter integration tools

Why Your Brand Needs a Voice on Twitter

http://prninsider.com/index.cfm?PID=1174&ID=5253,19287,19793&S=omqnhptrrq

Article from PRNewswire: "Companies actively engaged on Twitter enjoy the strength of a loyal network. But more importantly, these organizations have the opportunity to mold a positive image for their brand every day - and so can you."

"My Social Media System"

http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2009/01/22/my-social-media-system/

The social nmedia management routine of a successful SM manager

Patient Community

http://www.patientslikeme.com/

A free patient community where patients can meet and engage with one another. Could we build something like this for our own patients? Would it have relevence to meet others like you within your own community? We would moderate or involve ourselves or just give patients a safe place to meet up? Could wemake docs available for chats or BB?

Using YouTube

Getting the most from YouTube for your hospital

Another great article by Ed Bennet!

Health care, Social Networks and the Radio Call-in show

http://ebennett.org/heath_care_sn_radio/

Interesting article by Ed Bennet, Web manager for University of Maryland Medical Center.

Actualy, his whole blog is worth a read...and he is a dog lover! Gotta love him!

Mayo Clinic & Social Media

The Mayo Clinic's new blog
Sharing Mayo Clinic

Article in the Jacksonville Business Journal that describes some of the ways in which Social Media is being used in health care
Jacksonville Business Journal

Interesting interview with Lee Aase, manager of SM at Mayo
Arik Hanson's interview with Lee Aase

MimmPost.com review Sharing.Mayo

Mayo's facebook page

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Vid PRO Co

Launching January 22, 2009 at 8:00p.m. CST.

Some of the most knowledgeable peeps around are joining together for the common good of all. Vid PRO Co is based on a a very simple idea where people can submit questions and get answers via video. (http://seesmic.com/vidproco)

40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them

http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/best-twitter-brands/

Great new article on Mashable.com

"We all know brands are using Twitter — whether or not you want them around. Some of them don’t quite get the medium and just tweet self-serving links or marketing speak, but you won’t find any of those brands here. We’ve handpicked 40 of the best brands experimenting with the micro-blogging platform, and asked them a few short questions about how they’re using Twitter."
Read mere! It is worth your time if you are trying to learn how Twitter can work for your business.!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Video Blogging

Is video blogging superior?

Is this an idea worth considering as part of my video strategy? Something to think about!

The 2008 Medical Weblog Awards

2008 Web Awards

All of these site have been nominated for 2008 Weblog awards...worth checking out!

Twittermaven

http://twittermaven.blogspot.com/

Everything you ever wanted to know about twitter

Blog for Profit

http://www.blogforprofit.com/

Grant Griffith's blog about blogging

Radian6 social media monitoring solution

http://www.radian6.com/cms/home

From their site: The impact of social media on public relations and advertising is fundamentally changing the profession. Brand ownership is no longer solely the domain of the institution. A brand is now defined as the sum of all conversations taking place amongst users and it's happening regardless of whether you are part of these conversations or not.

Radian6 is focused on building the complete monitoring and analysis solution for PR and advertising professionals so they can be the experts in social media.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

140 Health Care Uses for Twitter

http://philbaumann.com/2009/01/16/140-health-care-uses-for-twitter/

Before everyone else in my group reads this, I think we need to lock ourselves in a room and see what we come up with. WShere there is crossover, we may be onto something!

Chat Room-Chatzy

http://www.chatzy.com/

Was introduced to this for my for #journa chat when twitter was overloaded due to inauguration.

Twitter Top 100 Health and Medicine

http://www.medicalstudentblog.co.uk/twitter-top-100-health-and-medicine/

Gonna take a while to work through this list, but I'm sure it will be well worth my time.

Doctors/Hospitals Using Twitter

Twitter Doctors
This is a resource where doctors and hospitals who are on Twitter are documented

New White House Blog

Change has come!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/

The new White House Blog...Launched at 12:01. Is this what they mean by transparency?

Intersting Local Use of Web 2.0

http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=122136

The Reading Eagle website asked their readers to contribute in real time with their thoughts on the inauguration.

This Blog

This blog is my attempt to capture all of the things that I think of, that interest it, that others are doing that is exciting, links to things that I like. It will probably be quite random. It may be a bit disorganized, but hopefully it will be interesting. Stay tuned! I plan on being very busy!