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Re: Zen and the Art of the Tweet

philbaumann — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:19:44 -0000

lol - I think Tibet's a wee bit too cold for me, so I'll be around for while.

Re: Healthcare’s Google-Facebook-Twitter Platform

philbaumann — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:25:09 -0000

Certainly! Trust the at the center and circumference of health care. Hospitals will have to get more involved and it's going to take a lot of leadership that's been sadly missing over the last 10,000 of the Web.

But 2009 seems to have been a bit of a turning: at least a small but vocal minority like @LeeAase of Mayo has advanced the cause. We'll see what 2010 brings.

Re: Healthcare’s Google-Facebook-Twitter Platform

philbaumann — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:22:49 -0000

Agree - privacy will have to be thought out. And certainly hospitals and other hosts for these communities will need to provide visible, clear and understandable guidance regarding privacy.

It's a challenging balance between privacy (and dignity) and the utility of searchable public data that may benefit another.

Re: Twitter Lists Are Here to Stay – Deal With It

philbaumann — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:03 -0000

I agree with you about a Like feature for Lists - that there should be some way to tag a list with metadata. Given the many different lists for the same topic (as your example demonstrates), the aught to be a way to help bring some order about.

I'm sure applications will be built on top, such as Listorious (http://listorious.com/) but eventually Twitter will need to help provide their own mechanisms.

One other thing I didn't point out in my post is Search for Lists: I'd like the ability to search lists. I'm sure we'll see some developed over the API or Google will refine its Social Search to include Twitter Lists.

Re: Twitter Lists Are Here to Stay – Deal With It

philbaumann — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:27:44 -0000

My pleasure!

And you do know you're a goddess, right? - http://twitter.com/PhilBaumann/goddesses :)

Re: Twitter Lists Are Here to Stay – Deal With It

philbaumann — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:56:19 -0000

I appreciate where you're coming from - but a lot of people do care about ego. Maybe not you or me or @Doctor_V, but the fact is human nature is on full display on Twitter.

I agree with you: Lists enable connection and discovery. I"m not against them - I'm simply pointing out their potential, for good or ill.

Re: Twitter Lists Are Here to Stay – Deal With It

philbaumann — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:53:44 -0000

@Doctor_V It isn't about ego. I listed 9 uses for Lists and not all referenced ego. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in making my point that it isn't about ego.

You don't think people are going to use Lists from an ego-perspective? Of course they will and some people will get hurt. We may think that's funny because we have different views on what lists are about, but I stand by my claim.

Also, people can get hurt by being on lists by people who don't have very good intentions. See the post linked to in #8 above.

Oh, btw, you're a Demigod - http://twitter.com/PhilBaumann/demigods :)

Re: Free eBook: 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter

philbaumann — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:18:56 -0000

Thanks, Andres

Just attended Digital Pharma conference in Bridgewater, NJ today and did get
the sense that Pharma's making some steps forward after meeting with some
very brilliant people with the drive to make changes. Perhaps smaller
organizations will have an easier time - but anymore there's certainly no
shortage of discussion about social media and various industries.

Keep up the work on the blog!

Re: Contact

philbaumann — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:01:06 -0000

Primarily due to avoid spam. But I may re-consider it.

Thanks!

Re: A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave

philbaumann — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:59:33 -0000

Atit,

I'm sure clinical collaboration will evolve and refine as these technologies become more powerful, cheaper and easier to use. There will be many problems which will need to solved - beyond just the technological - but over time I think the needs of practitioners and patients will drive innovation and adoption.

Re: A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave

philbaumann — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:23:13 -0000

Thank you!

Re: A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave

philbaumann — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:41:24 -0000

@Matt_Perez

Is the demo up anywhere online to view?

Re: Google SideWiki: How to Brace Yourself for a Communications Bitch Slap

philbaumann — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:06:20 -0000

Neil

Yes, not having any notification system is a real problem. As brazen as it
is for Google to have rolled this out, there should have been at least an
organized way of notification.

But since there's no opt-in and SideWiki can appear on almost any site,
there's no inherent way to notify the site owner.

Phil.

Re: Wave and Healthcare

philbaumann — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:28:04 -0000

I think the most confusing part here is the "public" wave - currently, a wave is public insofar as you have a Google Wave account. But as time moves on, I suppose we'll see the emergence of a truly public wave platform.

I'm looking forward to exploring the health care uses of Wave. Once we see the development over the API, we'll have even clearer views of just what can be done with Wave.

Phil

Re: Healthcare on Google Wave

philbaumann — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:44:23 -0000

Ah! That's why - I thought it was, but it I don't see public@a.googlewave.com invited now. I'll fiddle with it.

Which of course raises the whole issue about permissions, privacy and security. For instance, what if you're participating in a wave you don't realize is public and embedded elsewhere? As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be an obviously easy way to know that a wave is public unless you're really paying attention. Is there? (Other than the yellowed bar that says "[not-yet-implemented-user] gave everyone access")

Re: #SMHC notes posted

philbaumann — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:43:44 -0000

I'm commenting here via Google Wave.

Sorry to have missed you at ALI. But I was very impressed with the attendees at my workshop.

Thanks for the notes!

Re: Free eBook: 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter

philbaumann — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:49:16 -0000

Caution must be taken on any platform.

Re: Another Ultimate Social Media Dashboard

philbaumann — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:48:23 -0000

Nick :)

Re: Media Skills Workshop – Healthcare Communications

philbaumann — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:53:23 -0000

Thanks, Robert. :)

Re: Google SideWiki: How to Brace Yourself for a Communications Bitch Slap

philbaumann — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:03:41 -0000

Indeed - I'd imagine a lot of big brands will get a lot of graffiti, which
is common: the bigger the name, the louder the attention.

At this point, given the "geek" nature of SideWiki, I don't know how
widespread it will be adopted. Nevertheless, the proverbial cat is out of
the bag as far as distributed messaging is concerned.

Since the future is uncertain, my view is for organization to revisit their
communications and online strategies. The better companies are at engaging
with their base and earning their trust, the easier the task of confronting
detraction - or spamming or trolling. It won't be easy, but that's why
business is call business.

Re: Google SideWiki: How to Brace Yourself for a Communications Bitch Slap

philbaumann — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:10:04 -0000

Thanks.
Now I can comment on Disqus. And SideWiki. And then tweet the comments and
start all over. :)

Re: Google SideWiki: How to Brace Yourself for a Communications Bitch Slap

philbaumann — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:42:21 -0000

Perpetual Beta.

Re: Google SideWiki: How to Brace Yourself for a Communications Bitch Slap

philbaumann — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:13:44 -0000

I have no doubts that Google is fiendishly working to catch up. Remember,
their mission is "To organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful". That has social media all over it. As a
media/advertising company, social information is perhaps the most important
for Google.

One thing Google needs to get right is affordances. Their problem still is
that they leave advanced features hidden. FriendFeed had this problem too.

Re: Google SideWiki: How to Brace Yourself for a Communications Bitch Slap

philbaumann — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:46:05 -0000

@Medxcentral

I could see Google mixing SideWiki with Wave.

The problem Google has is that it hasn't been much of a leader in the social web business. Perhaps Facebook will counter with something of their own (they're problem, of course, is the walled garden).

Twitter as well could enter this business - develop some combination of TweetBoard, SideWiki and whatever their ReTweet project will be.

ReTweets on Twitter are already comments about a web page, in effect. So far, though, ReTweets are very limited metadata. If Twitter can engender, capture and consolidate comments via its own product, I could see an even more viral impact there. But I'm not sure if Twitter is ready to zoom out its focus on it core product just yet.

The challenge I think each company has is none of them have all of the ingredients. Google's got search down; Twitter has real-time; Facebook has numbers and social media.

We'll see if Wave rides or crashes on its hype.

Re: Free eBook: 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter

philbaumann — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:44:30 -0000

Deborah,

Yes, there's lot to sort out, which is why I highlighted that. It's easy to
violate HIPAA and so we'll need more public discussion about its role in the
21st Century. Thank you for sharing!

Phil