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From Southwestern Vermont Medical Center CMO Blog: This week I had an interesting conversation with my son. A college senior, he’s considering job options in his field of environmental science. Possibilities include various types of nonprofits, research, and environmental education organizations. As we talked about his ideas, and he does job interviews and gets offers, [...]

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I’m convinced that all media will soon be social — that is, nearly all content we consume will be recommended to us rather than programmed at us. Stay tuned for more on that. But I was fascinated by Facebook’s new ad system and the data I was able to find. For example, you can now [...]

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I spend a fair amount of my time tracking general Internet trends and theorizing how those trends will play out in healthcare.   And as I prepared an upcoming talk, I’m struck by how quickly the concept of a website as a destination will fundamentally change. This blog is a great example: what started off as [...]

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Wall Street Journal’s Article, “GOPers Think U.S. Health Care Rocks, Dems Not So Much” “America has the best medical care in the world,” Rudy Giuliani said last year. Most Republicans agree with him, but most Democrats don’t, according to a new poll from the Harvard School of Public Health. The difference is striking: 68% of [...]

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Here is a recording of one of our most recent webinars. Have you been tasked with finding a Content Management System (CMS) but are overwhelmed with the acronyms? Or do you currently have a CMS but find yourself spending all of your time managing the things it’s supposed to manage for you? Either way, this [...]

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I’ve been working on a talk and have seen the wisdom of chucking out the traditional bulleted Powerpoint list in favor of a completely visual (read: all pictures) presentation. For the last decade, Edward Tufte has complained PowerPoint’s density of information is so low, its only media analog is Soviet propaganda. Me? I just want [...]

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