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Comment on Facebooking for Better Health by Facebook: More Than Status Updates | Group 3 Solutions

Facebook: More Than Status Updates | Group 3 Solutions — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:28:54 +0000

[...] Reprinted with permission from Dobies Healthcare Group. This post originally appeared here. [...]

Comment on Texts and Tweets for Haiti by Social Networks and Healthcare Information | Group 3 Solutions

Social Networks and Healthcare Information | Group 3 Solutions — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:26:40 +0000

[...] this year, we showed how online engagement after the earthquake in Haiti helped prove that people are using social media to connect with others [...]

Comment on Texts and Tweets for Haiti by Dobies Healthcare Blog » Blog Archive » Social Networks Providing Health Info, Support

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:21:04 +0000

[...] this year, I showed how online engagement after the earthquake in Haiti helped prove that people are using social media to connect with others [...]

Comment on Changing the Face of Men’s Health, One ‘Stache at a Time by Dobies Healthcare Blog » Blog Archive » Using Twitter to Blame, and Beat, Cancer

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:30:07 +0000

[...] in November, I blogged about a movement that used Twitter, Facebook and mustaches to raise awareness and money for men’s health. Today, I stumbled upon another fantastic [...]

Comment on Getting the Message: Using Texts to Encourage Healthy Habits by mingopeinnopy

mingopeinnopy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:19:48 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know about this topic up to the present. Thanx!

Comment on Real Moms Text! (Or, if you can’t reach ‘em, text ‘em) by Dobies Healthcare Blog » Blog Archive » Getting the Message: Using Texts to Encourage Healthy Habits

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:55:50 +0000

[...] Thankfully, however, some have discovered ways to harness the positive power of the text message. For example, researchers in New York have discovered that sending medication reminders via text message to young liver transplant patients can improve the rate of adherence thus reducing the chance of organ rejection. Another study found that people were more likely to wear sunscreen if they received a daily text message reminding them to do so. And public health programs in California are using text messages to educate teens and young adults about STDs and sexual health. We’ve even recommended the use of texting to help our clients reach out to Gen Y moms-to-be. [...]

Comment on Social Networking, the Old-Fashioned Way by Carol Dobies

Carol Dobies — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:13:45 +0000

Kelly, I thought you worked all weekend – Remind me to tell you about using my Sprint phone to call home when I climbed my first Fourteener – I need to take lessons from you on disconnecting!

Comment on Medical Travel Is On The Rise – Caveat Emptor! by Dobies Healthcare Blog » Blog Archive » Watching the Flat World of Global Healthcare Emerge

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:30:27 +0000

[...] week’s article in Modern Healthcare talks about the emerging phenomenon of medical tourism (also known as medical travel and medical outsourcing). As with most articles, the conversation [...]

Comment on ‘Bing:’ Microsoft to Launch New Search Engine by Dobies Healthcare Blog » Blog Archive » Bing: A Test

Dobies Healthcare Blog » Blog Archive » Bing: A Test — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:50:10 +0000

[...] 2, but Microsoft is already running a preview of Bing. So let’s continue our test, started with this query on Live Search a few days ago [...]

Comment on The Basic “Be”s of Blogging by Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 26 May 2009 20:22:47 +0000

Another BE is BE Transparent. If you are a marketing/media person commenting on your own department’s or company’s blog, identify yourself as such. Check out the backlash that the media relations director for the Warriors (NBA) created when he posted on the Warriors World blog.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/24/SPE617Q63U.DTL