I believe health care consumers do far more than just consume. In a recent post I introduced the term COMsumers and their COM habits. In this post I am going to demonstrate how health care consumers exhibits all 8 COMsumer habits: Continue Reading…
Tag Archive - Online Communities
10 Reasons Why Patients Blog and The 5 Reasons Why They Don’t Tell Their Doctors
Patients blog ? Now have you thought about patients who blog?
I recently attended (well listened-in) to the Medicine 2.0 conference.
I found the Patient Bloggers Panel was one of the most memorable sessions of the conference. Why? It was a reminder of the human-side of Healthcare. Continue Reading…
Internet Radio Episode 1: What Is Social Media From A Subscriber’s Perspective?
The Social Media Pearls Show will launch its first episode this Thursday!
May 17th 2012.
This first show will be with four of My Subscribers!
That’s right – My Subscribers.
Isn’t that fitting? After all, where would I be without My Subscribers? Continue Reading…
18 Social Networks For PetLovers, Owners & Pets
As part of my niche social network series, today I am going to cast a light on social networks for pets! Yes, that’s right, social media networks for Pets-Lovers, Owners and their pets. With over 170 million dog and cat owners in North America alone, there is clearly a strong social community centered around pets. Continue Reading…
Social Media A to Z Series: Rocking the A to Z of Twitter and Tweets
For this post, I am returning to my A to Z Series of Social Media where T is for Twitter.
I have had quite a few conversations about Twitter lately that forced me to reflect on my own perspective– a year ago. The general theme of these conversations were 1) “I have a Twitter account but do not use it” and 2) “There is “too much noise ” on Twitter- I cannot see the value and don’t have the time”. A year ago I would have said exactly the same thing. The analogy I like to use is that a year ago I use to look through the window of the “Twitter House” and all I saw were fragmented sentences (or at least what looked like sentences) being hurled around in an internal whirl-wind of nonsense! However, so many people were raving about this 140-character “mumbo jumbo” capability I had to take a closer look. Continue Reading…
