Comments on: Why Social Media Works

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:54:37 +0000

Great social sites ….but need more sites to be added…

By: Web Design West Palm Beach

Web Design West Palm Beach — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:10:04 +0000

Web Design West Palm Beach…

Another web 3.0 topic worth discussing in detail….

By: Joelle Johnson

Joelle Johnson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:02:14 +0000

Sanford Health / USD Medical Center is now on twitter.

https://twitter.com/SanfordHealth

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:15:19 +0000

Yakima Valley Memorial is on Twitter, as well as their foundation and many staffers:
https://twitter.com/YakimaMemorial
http://twitter.com/memfound

By: Ed Bennett

Ed Bennett — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:22:00 +0000

You can add the University of Maryland Medical Center to the list:

http://twitter.com/ummc/

By: MedTouch PRO » MedTouch PRO Industry Insights - November 3, 2008

MedTouch PRO » MedTouch PRO Industry Insights - November 3, 2008 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:47:03 +0000

[...] Needham, a writer for Webiscope, has a great review on social media, as well as a long list of hospitals currently using Twitter to get the word [...]

By: Marc Needham

Marc Needham — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:54:38 +0000

Angela – it is mostly a side-of-my-desk kind of thing but, as Bill pointed out, most of it is automated – fed by RSS feeds from our main website. When I get in most mornings I run a quick saved search I have for Twitter and hit a couple of our sites to make sure nothing wacky is going on. The rest email me when there is activity, like a comment to approve/reject.

We also have a couple of major projects in a holding pattern right now and some of the spare cycles have been used to get these little presences rolling.

Bill – it falls on my and my team’s shoulders. Our customer service department was involved when we set up our response matrix for general inquiries received through the website. We _kind of_ use the same matrix to determine how best to respond to social media situations.

Since Bill isn’t mentioning it, here’s another for the list above:

*Henry Ford Health System*, MI:
http://twitter.com/HenryFordNews

By: Bill Ferris

Bill Ferris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:08:28 +0000

@Marc – Great stuff and thanks for the list. At Scripps who is charged with keeping up with the Tweets? Is it you, someone in PR?

@Angela – In terms of updating on Twitter, there’s a 3rd party service called Twitterfeed that will take a RSS feed and automatically generate a Tweet when new items are added. So if your news releases are in a feed, that portion can be done automatically at least.

By: Angela Gow

Angela Gow — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:10:06 +0000

How do you find the time or prioritize time to update these other social media outlets? I’m sure we can all relate to the challenges of keeping our own website current, not sure where I would find the time to update several other places.

It is great to see that so many other health care organizations are embracing this. I think that each one that does, makes our case to the powers that be stronger.

By: Marc Needham

Marc Needham — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:35:34 +0000

… and mine since I’m on a roll:
http://twitter.com/mneedham