Social Media University, Global (SMUG)
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Here are my slides from this morning’s keynote at the 2nd Annual Mayo Clinic/Ragan Communications Social Media Summit.
As you will see toward the end, we announced formation of the Social Media Health Network this morning. Here is the news release, and here is the blog post on our Center for Social Media site where you can get more information.
On September 13 and 14, Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation hosted its second annual Transform symposium. If you weren’t able to attend in person (or even if you did, and want to review any of the presentations), we now have them uploaded as a playlist on our Mayo Clinic YouTube channel. I have embedded the playlist below:
Please feel free to embed the playlist or any of the individual videos on your blog, or otherwise share with those you think would find them interesting and helpful.
I’m in Alexandria, Minnesota this morning for the Health Care Auxiliary of Minnesota annual meeting. Here are the slides for my presentation:
I hope the Auxilians in attendance will share their comments and questions here, so we can continue the conversation relating to the program, and how they can apply social media.
I’m in Philadelphia today for a presentation and panel discussion as part of the third annual Lee White Innovation Institute. Here are the slides I will be using:
I plan to update this post with some thoughts after the discussion. I hope event participants will continue the conversation here in the comments.
When I was in Washington, D.C. last week I had a free evening that gave me a chance to go see the Nationals play a baseball game. It’s relatively unusual for me to be overnight in a city instead of traveling (I generally fly in one night and out the next), but in this case I had the extended opportunity.
Here are some photo memories from the adventure (click any of the photos to view a larger size):
The view from the back concourse (I arrived just after the game started):
I got a really good seat through an interesting exchange. As I was standing in line to buy a ticket, a guy came up to the group and said, “Anyone here alone?” I said I was, and he said, “Here, take this. It’s a really good seat…It’s about a $70 ticket.” Before I could reach for my wallet to give him a token of my thanks, he was gone.
While it would have been nice to see rookie phenom Steven Strasburg pitch, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have gotten a seat like this if I had been there the next night:
At Nationals Park the between-innings diversions have a governmental/historical feel, such as the Presidents Race:
George won this time.
It was REALLY hot that night, and was almost unpleasant even in shorts. But a nice rain shower cooled things down significantly (and also led to a rain delay):
And after the rain delay I was able to even get a slightly better seat in the 18th row:
All in all, as I left a little early to catch the Metro back to the hotel, it was a memorable night:
