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With QR Codes, Hospitals Are Finding It’s Hip to Be Square

By Jenn Riggle
While hospitals haven’t embraced location-based services like Foursquare or Facebook Places, they’re moving forward with their mobile strategies by using QR codes and creating mobile websites.
QR or “Quick Response” codes have been around for a while, but they’ve only recently gained mainstream acceptance and seem to be popping up everywhere – on store [...]

SOBCon Presentation: Integrating Social Media into the Larger Mix

The SOBCON presentation “Integrating Social Media into the Larger Mix” that I gave on Saturday sparked quite a discussion at the event as well as on Twitter. Here is a brief narrative version to accompany the deck, which is also embedded in this post.
Integrating Social Media – SobCon 09 Presentation
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There Is No Social Media Department

When a new competency is embraced by a larger entity, it is the nature of a corporate organization to turn that group into a department. In fact, most PR and advertising agencies actively seek to build or acquire a social media department to meet the growing demand for conversational services (Silo image by eirikref).
The [...]

Integrating Social Media Into the Mix

Any social media strategy worth its salt is a nod to Aristotle’s Metaphysics: “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” By shunning silos, social media can (and should) be integrated with traditional media, email, direct and mobile marketing efforts.

Think about it (Image: Light Chaos by Kevin Dooley). Customers, donors or [...]