From the monthly archives:

February 2010

Favorite Articles and Popular Tweets of the Week – 2/26/10

February 26, 2010
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Are you ready for another round of Friday favorites?  The following links represent our favorite articles and most popular tweets of the week.  Enjoy.
Our Favorite Articles of the Week

Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day – While industry insiders argue over which Twitter metrics matter, it’s hard to ignore  Ben Parr’s report regarding the staggering [...]

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Best Hospital Facebook Pages – Health Systems

February 26, 2010
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Today we conclude with our final article of the “Best Hospital Facebook Pages” series with the health system category.   This 4 part series has been categorized in the following manner:

Individual hospitals
Specialty hospitals
Children’s hospitals
Health systems

Health systems are different from the other pages we have reviewed, because they each include a group of hospitals rather than a [...]

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Best Hospital Facebook Pages – Children’s Hospitals

February 25, 2010
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If you’ve been following the AP “Best Hospital Facebook Page” series, you’ve already seen some great examples of hospital pages.  Today we are detailing the best children’s hospital pages which was the most impressive of all 4 categories.  The series is being published and categorized as follows:

Individual hospitals
Specialty hospitals
Children’s hospitals
Health systems

The online marketing folks at [...]

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Best Hospital Facebook Pages – Specialty Hospitals

February 24, 2010
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For day 2 of our “Best Hospital Facebook Page” series, we are detailing specialty hospitals that have made the most of the Facebook fan page format.  The series is being published and categorized as follows:

Individual hospitals
Specialty hospitals
Children’s hospitals
Health systems

Reviewing the specialty hospital category was a pleasant surprise.  There was a nice selection of pages to [...]

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Best Hospital Facebook Pages – Individual Hospitals

February 23, 2010
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Exhibiting an alert presence on Facebook
In the last several days, we have reviewed over 300 Facebook hospital fan pages.  A special thank you goes out to Ed Bennett for his efforts in tracking a large quantity of hospital pages on his website, Found In Cache.  Without this resource the process of reviewing would have taken [...]

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Favorite Articles and Popular Tweets of the Week – 2/19/10

February 19, 2010
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Are you ready for another round of Friday favorites?  The following links represent our favorite articles and most popular tweets of the week.  Enjoy.
Our Favorite Articles of the Week

HOW TO: Make Your Small Business Geolocation-Ready – Leah Betancourt details ways to capitalize on the emerging trend of geolocation for your small business.
A Comprehensive Video Guide [...]

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Build Your Own Social Network With Buddypress

February 19, 2010
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A “social network in a box” solution
If you’ve ever dreamed of creating your own successful social network, it’s no longer as difficult as it may have once seemed.  BuddyPress allows you to create your very own social network within the world’s most popular blog framework – Wordpress.  Best of all, the installation and implementation is [...]

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Best Hospital Fan Pages – Nominate Your Favorites

February 16, 2010
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As a follow up to our 5 Best Facebook Medical Practice Fan Pages, we would like to recognize the best examples of hospital and healthcare system Facebook pages.  If you know of any great examples, please nominate them (including a link) in the comments section below.

The winners will be divided up into three groups – [...]

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Mashable’s Google Buzz Button Measures Success

February 15, 2010
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about Google Buzz.  Social media experts have been praising and demonizing Google’s new service since it launched on Tuesday, February 9th.  Within days of the launch, Google made quick changes to the Buzz experience in response to consumer [...]

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Favorite Articles and Popular Tweets of the Week – 2/12/10

February 12, 2010
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Happy Friday.  Here’s a another round of our favorite articles and most popular tweets (based on clicks) of the week.  Enjoy.
Our Favorite Articles of the Week

When Does Social ‘Aggregation’ Become ‘Stealing’? – Lisa Barone of Outspoken Media makes some interesting points about the Wordpress aggregation plugin, BackType.  Is it content theft?
Wanna Write? Read Voraciously. – [...]

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