Monthly Archives: December 2010

Christmas Eve Reflections on 2010

It’s 6:30 on Christmas Eve morning as I begin writing this. Why am up early on my first of five days off from work? Because my youngest daughter, Ruthie, needed to get to her nursing assistant job at 7, and we had to get a car free from six inches of new-fallen snow. Part of [...]
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If you’ve got one of these…

…why would you not get a Facebook page for your business or organization? Here are four reasons why a Facebook page is better than a Yellow pages ad, and why it’s not even a close call. A Yellow Pages ad is expensive. A Facebook page is free. A Yellow Pages ad typically has a distinctive [...]
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Facebook 140: @ is where it’s @

Those who have used Twitter are familiar with the @ lingo: When you put @username (e.g. @LeeAase, @MayoClinic, @MeredithGould) in a tweet, you are replying to or mentioning that Twitter user in the public space. Facebook developed similar functionality several months ago, but I have to confess I haven’t used it as much or as [...]
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Facebook for Business: The Video

A week ago today I participated in a Rochester Chamber of Commerce seminar on Facebook for Business. I led off the discussion and then took lots of notes from Alan De Keyrel’s keynote presentation, which I summarized in this post. Now Alan’s company has posted the video from the event so you can see it [...]
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Behold The Power of Twitter

At noon today, I had an opportunity to conduct a Twitter training class for physicians from one of our clinical departments at Mayo Clinic. I wanted to show them the reach and speed of Twitter, and how it can spread messages widely and quickly. So, at 12:28, I put out this tweet to my Twitter [...]
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