You knew it was coming, and now is the time, Folks: launch of the 2009 Summer Reading Guest Post Series here at the ‘Mine.
I’ll be traveling most of the next four weeks, first domestically, and then in Germany and Holland.
And what will be happening here at the blog? Even more informative fun than last year, I hope. I’ve been very fortunate to be able to invite some of the country’s premiere experts on…
It’s difficult to describe the feeling of being physically in the same room with 30 people with whom you have a longstanding online intimacy, seeing their faces and hearing their voices in the flesh. With the likes of David Mendosa, Jeff Hitchcock, Manny Hernandez, Scott King, Kerri Sparling, Fran Carpentier, and a whole mess of other bloggers and heads of online D-communities gathered, it felt something like a meeting of the mafia bosses — in…
It was a VERY long day, traveling from San Francisco to Indianapolis for the Diabetes Social Media Summit. And it started out pretty hectic, too, what with waking up just after 4am, and with SFO crazy-crowded before 5am. I barely made it through security in time to catch my first flight, so grabbed the quickest gluten-free breakfast choice I could find: the one most people think is “healthy” but shot my sugars into the 300′s…
Talk about nothing changes! For this week’s trip back in time, I’m reprinting a post from September of 2005 about attempting to navigate the American healthcare system — and what a bumpy ride that is. Just for confirmation that we’re all still struggling with this same baloney, check out #patientsfirst on Twitter. Now, buckle up and enjoy the ride…
Amy’s Tour of Health Plans, aka Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride in Slo-Mo
If I learned…
As the Diabetes Social Media Summit hosted by Roche approaches, I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the question of Pharma engagement here. Is Social Media destined to be just another forum for them to push marketing mantras and build brands? Or can there really be valuable two-way interaction between the chronically drug-dependent (us PWDs, for example) and the industry that sells us our meds?
A whole lot of blogosphere debate is going on,…