Monthly Archives: March 2009

Honoring a Mayo Clinic Innovator

By Lee Aase | Published: March 20, 2009
Dr. Earl Wood, who helped Mayo Clinic pioneer heart surgery and also invented the G-suit that made high-altitude flight and space travel possible, died this week at age 97. You can read about him and see a documentary about his work here on the Mayo Clinic News Blog. As I was searching for some related [...]
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Yammer 111: Twitter-Yammer Integration with #yam

By Lee Aase | Published: March 18, 2009
Thanks to @tomburket for the heads up this morning on this new Yammer feature, as described in the Yammer blog: You can now import your Twitter updates into Yammer, using the #yam tag. After linking your Yammer and Twitter accounts, any tweet (message posted to Twitter) that contains the #yam tag will be automatically imported into your Yammer network. The Yammer [...]
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Is SxSW Swamping TwitPic? Or is TwitPic just Unreliable?

By Lee Aase | Published: March 17, 2009
Until yesterday, my experience with TwitPic had been quite good. If you’re not familiar, TwitPic is a utility that lets you upload pictures from your iPhone (if it’s available for Blackberry, please let me know) to Twitter using clients like Twitterific or Twittelator, and publish a link to the photo as part of your tweet. [...]
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Patients and Social Media

By Lee Aase | Published: March 14, 2009
In many ways, SMUG has been my personal laboratory for learning about social media and how I can apply these tools to my work at Mayo Clinic. I’ve been able to experiment with blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms with my personal accounts, which then helps me see how they can be used for [...]
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Twitter 130: Listening with Twitter

By Lee Aase | Published: March 13, 2009
In Twitter 107, I compared two desktop applications for improving your Twitter interactions: Tweetdeck and Twhirl. In this course, I will take you through a case study of what can happen when you listen and engage through Twitter. Several months ago, I set up a Twitter search for the term “mayo clinic” and subscribed to [...]
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