Monthly Archives: August 2009

Join the Revolution!

When I first saw the video I’ve embedded below, it was via an email link from my department chair at work. It’s really cool when your boss’ boss passes stuff like this along! The video also includes a neat statistic that has particular relevance for SMUG and SMUGgles, as captured in this screen shot: Sort [...]
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RAQ: How can I update both Twitter and Facebook?

Here’s a question from yesterday (I’m paraphrasing): I don’t do a very good job of keeping either Twitter or my Facebook status updated. Is there a way I can do both at the same time, or use Twitter to update Facebook? Answer: Twitter 110, which was developed more than a year ago, lists some options [...]
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Is all health care local?

This presentation from John Norris caught my eye on Twitter because of how he promoted it through a tweet: Give his presentation a review and then I’ll share some thoughts that he stirred in me (since I work for @mayoclinic, and particularly with our Twitter account.) Hyper-Local Social Media and Healthcare View more documents from [...]
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Creativity and the MacGyver Mindset

Here’s an interesting story from our Mayo Clinic Medical Edge TV news feature about the nature of creativity, and how it doesn’t just apply to art and music: It’s nice to have a Mayo Clinic neurologist validating and outlining more rigorously something I’ve felt intuitively, and that is consistent with what I call “The MacGyver [...]
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A Present for Evelyn

Our family is in Grand Rapids, Michigan this weekend visiting my daughter Rachel, her husband Kyle and my granddaughter Evelyn, who turns one today. Evelyn got to open one of her presents Saturday night when we arrived, as she sat in the lap of her Aunt Rebekah. This is one of those priceless moments that’s [...]
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