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Monthly Archives: March 2010
A Special Delivery
My colleague Nicole Engler, who works with our Mayo Clinic Cancer Center and its communications, is a great Mayo Clinic employee and a true believer in the power of social media. She’s involved in the leadership of a young professionals group in Rochester that invited me to do a presentation on social media and be [...]
Posted in Health Care, video Tagged Austin Engler, Birth, Car, Mayo Clinic, NBC, Nicole Engler, Today Leave a comment
A Twitter Quote That Crushes It!
I’m listening to the audio version of Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book, Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, and Gary just used one of the best, most direct lines about Twitter’s value I’ve heard recently: If you’re not using Twitter because you’re in the camp that thinks it’s stupid, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Social Media Tagged Crush It!, Gary Vaynerchuk, Lee Aase, Social Media, Twitter 1 Comment
Why I’m glad I’m not at SXSW
Watching some of the tweet stream, I’m sure I would have really enjoyed being in Texas for South by Southwest. But I’ve had a lot of fun this week watching basketball, including Wednesday night when my son Joe, a high school freshman, got his first game action with the varsity team in the first round [...]
Posted in Personal Tagged Austin, basketball, Ed Bennett, High School, Lee Aase, Minnesota, SxSW Leave a comment
Where have all the polyps gone?
When I heard that Peter Yarrow of the ’60s trio (with Paul and Mary) had recorded The Colonoscopy Song to increase awareness of the need for colon cancer screening among those of his vintage, all sorts of lyrical possibilities ran through my mind… Where have all the polyps gone? Long time passing Where have all [...]
Posted in Health Care, Social Media Tagged Cancer, CBS, Colon cancer, Colonoscopy, Lee Aase, Peter Yarrow, polyps Leave a comment
Twitter + Facebook = Kidney Donation