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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Is Google Buzz Worth All This…Buzz?

February 9, 2010
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As expected, today Google announced a new social feature integrated into Gmail called “Buzz”.  This is yet another effort Google has made to get more involved in the growing trend of social communication.  Their past efforts in social networking (Orkut, Jaiku, Dodgeball, etc.) are largely considered to be failures.  Will Google Buzz be a success?  [...]

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5 Reasons to Claim a Google Profile Today

February 9, 2010
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The option to claim your own profile on Google and have it displayed within search results for your name has been available for nearly a year now.  With the growing popularity of social media networks, it’s surprising to see a relatively small percentage of web users have actually utilized this free service.  The truth is, [...]

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5 of the Best Facebook Medical Practice Fan Pages

February 8, 2010
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At first discussion, many of the medical professionals I speak with don’t see the value in having a Facebook fan page.  In order to explain the benefits of these pages to physicians and practice managers I often use examples of existing pages from other practices.  Therefore, I went on a quest to find the absolute [...]

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