Category: Conferences

SMUG Changing Lives…

…or at least one life. After the presentation I did Thursday in Minneapolis for Aging Services of Minnesota, Kris Glaros Hanson came up to me and said that my presentation to the group last September had significantly changed her career plans. I asked if she’d be willing to tell about it on camera, so here is her story:

I look forward to seeing how Kris puts her SMUG training to work on the site she will be launching, theseniorconnections.com.

If you’d like to share your SMUG experience, either your thoughts about one of my presentations or the online curriculum, please do so in the comments below. If you’d like to write a recommendation for my on LinkedIn instead, that would be great too. Here is my public profile.

And of course I welcome your constructive suggestions for improvement, too.

University Communications in the Third Millennium

I have the delightful opportunity this morning to present on social media for the Marketing and Communications Conference for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. I’m even going to get to meet a real-life Chancellor, James McCormick. I’m thinking I might ask what it would take for me to get SMUG accredited, but a more realistic goal would be to avoid have Chancellor McCormick (or one of his colleagues) tell me it’s OK to still use the title Chancellor for my office in this tongue-in-cheek university.

I think we’ll have a lot of fun with this, and hope to post some video later from the event.

Here are the slides:

University Communications in the Third Millennium

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Meanwhile, I think it’s pretty exciting that they have a Twitter hashtag established for the conference: #madmn. Please feel free to follow a long and chime in. I’ll be getting started about 9:15 a.m. CST, just after the real chancellor gets done with his greeting.

Air Medical Transport Social Media

A friend and colleague at Mayo Clinic who works with Mayo Medical Transport is part of a national organization involved in air medical transport. He asked me to do a Webinar today for some of his national peers, as this industry is looking at how social media could possibly be used to improve communication.

These are the slides I’m using for the presentation. Much of the material is similar to what I’ve used elsewhere, but there are some EMS and air medical transport examples sprinkled in.

I will be inviting participants to tweet, if they are involved in Twitter yet, using the #airmed hashtag.

Social Media in Air Medical Transport

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Closing the Gap with ICSI

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I’m attending a conference in Bloomington, Minn. this morning, called “Closing the Gap: Innovative Strategies to Patient Involvement,” sponsored by ICSI, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement. I’m doing a presentation on…you guessed it: Social Media.

Here are my slides:

Patient Involvement Through Social Media

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I’m encouraging participants in the conference to get involved with the discussion through the #ICSIgap hashtag on Twitter.

American Heart Association Social Media

I’m honored to be leading a conference call this afternoon with representatives from local chapters of the American Heart Association, discussing how they can use social media to spread the word. The conference call runs from 1-2 p.m. CST, and we’ll be using the #AHAchat hashtag for discussion.

The slides for my presentation (which will be about the first half or so of the discussion) are embedded below. They’re based on my 35 Theses, but I’ve incorporated some examples from AHA and their existing use of social media, and I’m not including the Octogenarian Idols section. If you want to contribute to the discussion via #AHAchat on Twitter, I’m sure you’d be welcome. Otherwise, please feel free to join in the comments on this post.

Social Media Advocacy

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If you’re not sure how to participate in a Twitter chat, check out Twitter 115 and Twitter 116 for tips.

Here is the Twitter search widget so you can track the conversation, even if you haven’t yet joined Twitter: