Archive for the ‘Social media’ Category
Finally… Moseley website goes live
Posted by: Rob Benson in Community, Social media on May 5th, 2009
Finally have got Moseley Festival website live at http://www.moseleyfestival.org.uk/
Fairly straightforward Wordpress installation. Not sure about the use of Upcoming for the events listing. Would a WP calendar plugin be any better? Might try again next time round.
Creating the site did show me that it is quite quick to create an OK looking site – we are all publishers. And it made me realise that my job as a corporate web monkey is to help people be their own publishers. I’m thinking a few ideas for how this can apply to healthcare – patients sharing information via blog sites, for example. Half of healthcare is about giving and receiving the right information… and there are a million ways to make it easier.
Anyway, off topic now. http://www.moseleyfestival.org.uk/ is pretty simple, i know, and needs a few graphical tweaks to make it nice and lovely, but it does the job, so I’m pretty happy with it. Now it’s the big plug! Twitter here we come!
NHS plans for digital
Posted by: Rob Benson in Community, Health, Social media on March 19th, 2009
Just returned from interesting meeting at which regional plans for NHS digital were outlined. It’s something I need to think more about, but I’m getting towards some ideas on how online could potentially help health service delivery. Read the rest of this entry »
The healthy social media society
Posted by: Rob Benson in Social media on February 26th, 2009
Dr Aric Sigman’s assertion that the increasing use of electronic devices is reducing social contact (see Telegraph technology blog), and therefore is potentially harmful to health, is clearly utter tosh.
The web is an essentially social phenomenon. It puts people in touch with each other.
I’ll take my past few weeks for example. Read the rest of this entry »
What’s the ROI of social media?
Posted by: Rob Benson in Performance measures, Social media on February 24th, 2009
Just coming back from a Social Media summit at Aston Science Park, where a handful of speakers told businesses and consultants about the positive aspects of social media – the ability to communicate, share stories and ‘help their business’.
It was an interesting introduction, but there was a bit of an elephant in the room when it came to spelling out why companies should be doing this, and what the actual results would be. Getting closer to your customers was the driving force behind CRM, and there is much debate about its benefits to the bottom line (sorry, will reference this allegation in time!). What is the return on social media? Read the rest of this entry »
