Life and pondering the merits of a NO REFUND CULTURE
My most recent company (Aurora) blog post muses the challenge of getting the mass media to report about health issues that affect the minority. The post is Oliver Twist themed: Please sir, I want some more…
April 13, 2010 - 11:34 pm
Tags: Simple Things, Social Media
Posted in Modern living | 4 comments
After more than three months of not blogging (which did include four weeks of holiday) I am back tending my weblog.
So why the absence?
Well I had to make a conscious decision over the Christmas holiday to take enforced leave from social media engagement (especially about getting my pants in too tight a virtual bunch about [...]
December 20, 2009 - 10:31 am
Tags: google wave, Social Media
Posted in Modern living | 5 comments
I have just been having a little play with Google Wave and it looks super fun.
My gmail is neilphilipcrump@gmail.com – so add me to your contacts and invite me to a wave – desperate to try it out with lots of people on it at the same time – the video demos make it look [...]
November 18, 2009 - 9:30 pm
Tags: Social Media
Posted in Modern living | 6 comments
I had a discussion today with about 10 other healthcare communications folk. I asked them about their social media use – pretty much all of them had a:
LinkedIn profile and some were actively engaging in group discussion
Facebook profile (no one admitted to playing one of those annoying farming games!)
Twitter account and were actively tweeting and retweeting
Google reader and actively [...]
October 14, 2009 - 12:38 am
Tags: sidewikis, Social Media
Posted in No Refund Culture, Sensible(ish) post | No comments
OK – have you heard of sidewikis? No, well I hadn’t until a couple of days ago either. The bottom line is that if you have downloaded the latest Google Toolbar you are able to leave a sidewiki entry (and also read the entries of other people) on ANY page on the Internet (where the [...]
August 23, 2009 - 4:40 pm
Tags: Social Media
Posted in Sensible(ish) post | No comments
A short post on my company blog about the use of social media by the pharmaceutical industry – forget the cloak and dagger theories about lack of engagement – it’s all about the regulations in which the industry operates: Jonathan Edwards was a toddler once you know…
June 24, 2009 - 1:06 am
Tags: Social Media
Posted in Loved stuff | 2 comments
I love this video, MaestroJ cited it as an illustration of how something on the web goes viral through word of mouth.
Enjoy…
Get married to Chad - ACHIEVED
See my family more
Watch the entire box set of The West Wing (nearly at end of season three of seven) - ACHIEVED
Catch up on Lost
Go to Oz to see friends - ACHIEVED
Try making something at a blacksmiths
Try glass blowing