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Should We Expect Health Care Professionals To Post And Tweet?

SocMed Sean

Often absent from the online conversation, however, is the voice of the health care professional. Doctors that I have discussed social media with have a broad range of opinions about whether they should engage with their patients online. Gen-X doctors seem to bridge that digital-divide, trying to figure out the right balance.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication

Waxing UnLyrical

But what if you could connect with your doctor using social media ; asking for advice via a quick Twitter or Facebook message? Attending the session “A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network“ at SxSW last year really opened my eyes to the social media obstacles healthcare professionals face.

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Social Media: The Key to Transforming Doctor-Patient Communication [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

and will be particularly interesting to you if you work at the intersection of health care and social media. You put on your Dr. Mom hat, jump online and feverishly Google their symptoms, you check social media to see if any of your friend’s children are sick. This originally ran on Nov.

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Hey PR pro! Are you using paid?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In addition, the most popular social media platforms are now publically-listed companies and are striving to drive ever-increasing shareholder value by earning ad revenues. That means Facebook, Twitter and other social networks have made gaining organic visibility almost impossible.

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Creating Great-Performing Social Media Content - Tips for Share-Friendly Posts

The Social Media Hat

Want people to talk about your content on social media? A lot of websites enable users to "like" on Facebook or "tweet"on Twitter right on the page, but enabling comments does a lot more. This allows you to customize the description, title and image so that the social network doesn't auto-populate those things for you.

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity SMM

It’s an outstanding list, categorized by industry including Automotive, Chemicals, Electronics, Telecommunications, and a dozen other sectors, but all of the names were linked to the individuals’ LinkedIn profiles—no Twitter links! List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011. Serious disconnect there.).

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Bayler Healthcare System Takes A Leap Into Pinterest: Interview with Ashley Howland (Part 1)

Diva Marketing Blog

About Ashley Howland is the social media manager for Baylor Health Care System. She took on Baylor’s social media efforts in 2009 “on the side” and it quickly turned into a full time job. You’re right; health care was very slow to adopt social media. On a high level why do you suppose that’s the case?

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