A few things happened while I was blissfully off-line for a week (gasp!)
The Diabetes OC (Online Community) has been busy, for one. The results of the 2nd annual Diabetes OC Blog Awards are in. I am honored to be named “best female blogger” for 2006. THANK YOU kindly to everyone who voted.
Top honors this year went to Diabetes Self-Management, a new pro blog from the magazine of same name written by a team…
Dear Readers,
Please humor me as I declare today official “Tell-Another-Person-About-DiabetesMine Day.” Self-serving? I guess so. But I figure after winning that journalism award I can indulge just a bit. Also, if Mr. “Insider” over at PharmaGossip can do it, so can I. After all, I’m busting my chops for my online community, too. So, with apologies to Jack, I echo:
Thank you so much for your loyalty and discerning good taste in choosing DiabetesMine.com…
Hello, medical bloggers, friends, and readers. That weekly compilation of happenings in the health care blogosphere that we affectionately call “Grand Rounds” will be hosted here at DiabetesMine.com next Tuesday. Pre-Rounds is a new series of interviews with the host bloggers, published on Medscape.com. Check out mine HERE (requires login.)
In keeping with the September tradition of “Back-to-School,” I’d like us to take the opportunity to celebrate education. That is, theme of the week will…
Any doubts about whether the blogosphere really matters were WIPED OUT last week — when I was contacted by two fund managers from Fidelity Investments, looking for the inside scoop on new continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology.
They’re currently backing DexCom, Abbott, and Minimed, and their long-term investors are “excited about excited about CGM replacing fingersticks, while the other half (of their investment community) is just worried about reimbursement,” they told me.
Apparently, these Small…
Back in April, a communications consultancy called Envision Solutions released the first-ever formal analysis of the healthcare blogosphere, a thoroughly researched 110-page report on who’s blogging, why, and what it all means. Founder and blogger Fard Johnmar was at the helm. DiabetesMine (that’s me!) was fortunate enough to correspond with Mr. Johnmar during the research phase, and caught up with him again recently to “pick his brains” on the project and what it divulged.
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