Tag Archive: social media

25 is how I drive: the call for slow communication

Last weekend, I was riding with my husband and daughter on a busy four-lane commercial street on a Sunday afternoon, on our way back from shopping for a toddler bed at IKEA. Typically while I’m riding as a passenger, I space out and stare out the window and neglect to pay attention to the negotiations [...]

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Is social media the platform for solving healthcare's problems?

The past several days I’ve seen a few interesting developments and discussions on the potential of social media for a more enlightened, and even productive, healthcare provider community.
One is The Bedside Trust, a sort of thinktank of healthcare executives and providers that has set up shop as a social network on the SocialCast platform. The [...]

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9 for ’09: brand communications hypotheses for the new year

Every marketing expert with a blog and a pulse has already released a “predictions” list for 2009 — they’ve become as ubiquitous as the end-of-year best-of albums and Oscar favorites. Neither a soothsayer nor a guru, I won’t endeavor to predict the future. But I can make some educated guesses, based on a lot of [...]

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