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Social Media: Is sharing a luxury?
By jaymeh on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
My sister is a manager on a level 1, cardiac intensive care unit in Pennsylvania. She has a staff of 85 nurses beneath her and together they care for 30 patients at any given time. I am fascinated by the intensity of this. Recently I spent a few weeks with her and my family. There were a few mornings that I woke up and walked the 1/2 mile down the road to her house (from my parent's house - where I was staying) to meet her for coffee when she got home from her 12 hour overnight shift. While she never shared too much, she did share the bigger, more generic, picture: deaths, survivals, miracles.
It got me thinking about people who share tons of private information in social media outlets: in reality, this is a luxury. These people on my sister's unit don't have the chance to sit up in bed and fill in 140 characters about their recent diagnosis, procedure or medication. They aren't given the opportunity to read replies to their status updates from loved ones or acquaintances scattered all across the globe.
My tendency is to scoff at people who pour their hearts out in public venues like Facebook or Twitter (ex: should I really know all the details of your recent break up/the labor you went through to give birth to your new baby/the death of your parent/the sour milk you accidentally poured on your cereal? I'm not so sure.) However, thinking about all of these people on her unit who may or may not make it through the night, maybe I should know all of those details. Maybe that's what it's there for and I'm just shy or overly protective of my 'private' information? I'm still trying to figure it all out.
My sister and I lead very different lives. She works a hundred million hours a week while she and her hubby care for their three small children. I, on the other hand, work from home (in Colorado) for Enspektos (parent to Path of the Blue Eye) managing projects and research. It's wonderful and challenging, and avoids human trauma. During this time of year I ski nearly every day and my thoughts are often dedicated to snow conditions, powder turns, and how I can get my psycho kitten, Chloe, to stop knocking over the Christmas tree.
Going forward if any of you have questions about Living the Path or Path of the Blue Eye, please let me know! I look forward to being a part of this community and gaining insights from you all. Happy Holidays, Jayme.
Everyone: Thanks for Jumping in!
By fjohnmar on Friday, December 10, 2010
Everyone:
Thanks so much for jumping in to introduce yourselves. I'll be chiming in very soon.
Re: [Living the Path Q&A Center] You Joined the Party, Now It's
By merryjwhitney on Monday, December 6, 2010
I’d say my Internet habits would be better described as “cruising” than “hanging out.” Generally, I stop in at a few favorite sites to catch the latest scuttlebutt, toss in my own two cents and then go on to the next one. My best “stay and browse” site-pick is probably Barnes & Noble.
Since late summer, my free time for surfing has been a bit less “free” — but I did learn exactly what the phrase “flood plane” means. The definition was indelibly etched across my mental screen, as I watched frogmen (U.S. Coast Guard) in boats patrolling the suburban street in front of my daughter’s half-submerged trilevel. Eerie!
During my subsequent grandchildren-watching afternoons (Gracie, 13; Johnny, 10; and DJ, 8), we invented a game of “Court” to take their minds off of the loss of all their toys and “real” games. The kids take turns being judge, prosecutor and defendant, and by default, I’m the defense attorney.
It’s hysterical. Little Gracie excels at “Prosecutor” and is incredibly imaginative: I tried throwing a curve-ball, that my client the defendant “is an identical twin” and that the witness could not state with certainty which twin did the crime. Without batting an eye, she called another “witness” (she plays all the voice-parts), a “twin expert,” who declared that every set of identical twins has a mole on the cheek opposite his/her twin’s mole.
I said, “Wait a minute — that isn’t true!” She replied, “I know it isn’t, but Johnny doesn’t have a twin, either.” Shades of her mother and uncles.
As the judge, Johnny usually rules my way: Regardless of whether the prosecutor or defense attorney has the better argument, the grandmother controls the cake and ice cream stash. And DJ, as judge, just likes to smack the gavel and yell, “Order! Order in the Court!
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Meet and Greet Me!
By JMCalo on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
My program, the Idaho Tobacco and Prevention program, has added social media marketing to its outreach toolbox. I do a lot of the managing for this effort and am still learning how to reach people and start conversations that don't look like public health speak. I'm learning a lot by exploring the wisdom of people who've been doing this for awhile. When I'm not at work, I'm painting watercolors and writing my blog, hiking, snowshoeing and generally staying active. My art website is www.snoringdogstudio.com and my blog is at www.snoringdogstudio.wordpress.com. I hope to meet more professionals on this site who can share their wisdom with me.
Great to Meet You Jean!
By fjohnmar on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Meet & Greet
By eiobri on Wednesday, December 8, 2010
I've been fascinated by using the internet to learn/educate about health since I got my Prodigy email account back in 1995. During that time, working as a marketer for Philadelphia-area hospitals, I always volunteered for the web projects, until in 1999 my role became dedicated to that. In 2006 I switched to the pharmaceutical side of health care and then started working for interactive agencies.
Currently, I work at Siren Interactive where we do relationship marketing for rare disorder therapies, which is a fascinating niche. Rare disease patients/caregivers, and the healthcare professionals who treat them, find the internet an invaluable resource. I'm a big fan of Twitter and moderate a weekly tweetchat on the topic of pharma marketing and social media. To participate, simply follow #socpharm on Wednesdays at 8 pm ET. You can also see my thoughts on Siren's blog at http://sirensong/sireninteractive.com. I look forward to more interaction with all of you on Path of the Blue Eye!
Eileen O'Brien