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New Look for Social Media Health Network Site

Posted on May 17th, 2013 by Lee Aase

If you’re reading this post, you’re seeing another milestone in our integration of blogging and social networking into our overall Web experience for Mayo Clinic. Long-time members of the Social Media Health Network (or even those who visited the site yesterday) may remember the green theme we have used for this community site for the [...]

Saving Lives with Gus: Learning with Dummies

Posted on April 11th, 2013 by Lee Aase

In the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, our goal is not to do all of the social media at Mayo Clinic, but to provide guidance and assistance so others can use these tools effectively for health-related purposes. We particularly want to help our Mayo Clinic staff bring their ideas to fruition, so that’s why [...]

Call for Presentations: Social Media Week at Mayo Clinic

Posted on April 2nd, 2013 by Lee Aase

The Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media will again host its Social Media Week in Rochester, Minn. in October, and we hope you will plan to attend. To help us develop the strongest program, we invite you to submit a presentation proposal to be considered for inclusion. More on that in a bit, after a [...]

Dr. Farris Timimi on Why Physicians Should Engage in Social Media

Posted on February 11th, 2013 by Lee Aase

Farris Timimi, M.D., the medical director for the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media, recently was interviewed for a feature about social media on TheHeart.org. Dr. Timimi discussed why physicians should be engaged in social media and answered some common objections. Click the image below to watch the interview:

Renewing our Advisory Board

Posted on February 11th, 2013 by Lee Aase

When Mayo Clinic launched our Center for Social Media in 2010, one of our first acts was to create an External Advisory Board for the Center and for the Social Media Health Network to bring in thought leaders from other institutions and industries, as well as patient representatives, to help us develop our programs. We [...]

February Social Media Residency SOLD OUT!

Posted on January 25th, 2013 by Lee Aase

As of this morning we have reached capacity for our Feb. 6-7 Social Media Residency in Scottsdale, Arizona, and will not be able to accept further registrations. We have cohorts scheduled to meet in Rochester, Minn. Apr. 15-16 and in Jacksonville, Fla. June 13-14. The Social Media Residency provides training for Mayo Clinic employees, but [...]

Redesigning Residency

Posted on January 21st, 2013 by Lee Aase

In the last 16 months we have had more than 250 people participate in our Social Media Residency program, an in-person 1.5-day intensive crash designed to help health care workers become familiar with various social media platforms and to consider how they might apply those platforms in their work. We’re currently in the process of [...]

Share Your Mayo Clinic Story!

Posted on January 14th, 2013 by Lee Aase

Mayo Clinic has made it easier than ever for patients who want to tell their stories online, and for those interested in learning about the experiences of patients who have faced similar challenges, by integrating Stories throughout our MayoClinic.org Web site and our Facebook page. One new thing you may notice in our universal navigation [...]

2013 Network Member Benefits

Posted on January 10th, 2013 by Lee Aase

All employees of organizational members of the Social Media Health Network automatically are upgraded to Member accounts the network site by validating their email address. This will give them full access to Mayo Clinic’s online social media training resources, including the soon-to-be-released online version of our Social Media Residency. Member organizations also receive these additional benefits: [...]

Integrating the Green and the Blue Sites

Posted on January 9th, 2013 by Lee Aase

In the coming week you will see the beginnings of our plan to integrate the content currently on the Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media site (a.k.a. the Blue site) and this Social Media Health Network (the Green site). The Blue site has heretofore been our open site, available to anyone in the world who [...]

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