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What Would the Community Think
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of having lunch with Colleen Young. During our conversation Colleen mentioned a website I might be interested in called FeverBee.com, a site that has an extensive collection of articles on building and sustaining an online community. When I got back to my desk I loaded up the site.…
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The Good, The Bad & The Googled
I admit it, I google myself. A lot. Sometimes two, three times a week. It started innocently, sparked by a tangent on a recent #hcsmca chat. We were brainstorming ways to use social media as a recruitment tool for health care practitioners when a few of us got sidetracked, debating the ethics of using Google…
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Highway to Health
In June 2010 I was asked to join a committee tasked with developing a new tool to help link patients to services and resources in the hospital and the community. We heard feedback from patients that they were overwhelmed by the volume of resources available and didn’t know where to start or couldn’t find the…
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Call me Ed(itor)
In the ever-changing world of working at a research hospital, I’ve recently taken over as the editor of the hospital’s monthly patient education newsletter. I couldn’t be more excited.
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