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The Value of Data Visualization
Love this – it explains a lot in two minutes. There’s so much value sitting locked away in data; finding the core of it and displaying that key message graphically makes it instantly accessible to people. The Value of … Continue reading
Posted in Data & Mapping, Working Smarter
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Publishers are Facing Their “Jacob’s Ladder” Moment.
Remember that movie? A vietnam soldier dies after a vicious combat, but he refuses to let go and after a moment of flatlining his vitals resume. Upon returning home he is increasingly freaked out by what appear to be horrible … Continue reading
Posted in Industry Trends, New Media, Philosophy
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Why I Like Google Plus So Far…
The hype rocket has blasted it into the clouds, the early adopters are scrambling to grok it and master it, the critics are picking it apart, and most of the world is too busy on Facebook to pay it any … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Tech Tools
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Your Company’s Knowledge Base – The Wiki
Often times, I’ll learn some institutional process, like the proper way to fill out a blank form, or how to route the blank…only to scratch my head over it 6 months later when it comes up again. “Now what goes … Continue reading
And Now for Something a Little Different
I’ve been lucky enough in my work to meet a lot of people around the country, doing great work in mission-driven fields. These tend to be public sector and non-profit organizations, and they’re very smart people with a ton of … Continue reading
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Figuring out Google Wave
I find myself in that odd position again, one foot in a world that hasn’t heard a thing about Wave “…you mean gmail??”, and a social media/tech world on fire about this thing. So this is for the first camp. … Continue reading
Posted in Tools, Using Social Media
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“Meaningful Use” Recommendations Harm Rural Hospitals
This is a guest post by Louis Wenzlow, Director of Health Information Technology at the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative (RWHC). The RWHC is a cooperative of 35 rural hospitals (including 28 Critical Access Hospitals) that promotes regional collaboration for health … Continue reading
Getting Started with Twitter
Oh, finally! Thanks to a great post, I discovered this four-minute video, “How to use Twitter in 10 easy steps.” Now you can stop scratching your head and check out Twitter! A few notes I’d add for those getting started: … Continue reading
Posted in Using Social Media
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Rural Medicine – serving more, with less, over huge distances
Just saw this stunning statistic in an article in the Nebraska Journal Star: …rural America—where just 9 percent of the nation’s doctors serve 17 percent of its citizens scattered across 80 percent of its geography—is not an ideal place to … Continue reading
Figuring out why you’re using social media
Just saw a great quote on the distinction between “Social Media” and “Social Networking”: Social Media are tools for sharing and discussing information. Social Networking is the use of communities of interest to connect to others. You can use Social … Continue reading