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Twitter Interview With Diario Medico

Today, journalist Alain Ochoa (@alainochoa) conducted an interview on Twitter with me for Diario Médico (@diariomedico), Spain’s leading medium for health professionals. We mainly talked about mobile technology and its use in medicine. Follow the link to read the whole tweeterview titled Mobile health from Croatia.

3 February 2010 | internet, interview, iphone, medicine | No Comments

Interview with Lee Aase

Maybe you read the post I recently wrote about a slideshow describing how Mayo Clinic utilizes social media in fantastic ways. This slideshow was created by Lee Aase (@LeeAase), who happens to be manager of Syndication and Social Media for Mayo Clinic (@mayoclinic). Mr. Aase, despite his busy schedule, was kind enough to [...]

2 June 2009 | interview, medicine | 2 Comments

How Mayo Clinic utilizes Web 2.0

Lee Aase (@LeeAase) is manager of Syndication and Social Media for Mayo Clinic. During Community 2.0 Conference which recently took place in San Francisco, he presented how Mayo Clinic has been taking advantage of Web 2.0 and social media. Take a look at his slide show to learn how Mayo Clinic fantastically promotes itself with [...]

14 May 2009 | internet, medicine | 9 Comments

How is Twitter influencing public health

Among the people I follow on Twitter there are some who seam to be always present. They have a large number of updates, which are more or less evenly distributed throughout the day. It is pretty obvious that these people basically spend their entire days on Twitter. How they manage to do this is a mystery to [...]

10 May 2009 | internet, medicine | 6 Comments

RT @ivorkovic: Twitter homepage parody

Twitter is getting more popular every day, and a lot of people around me started using it. I published this Twitter parody months ago, just when I started my blog and maybe two people were reading it. Now I got like five people reading my blog, so I was thinking why not publish it again. [...]

12 December 2008 | humor, internet | 2 Comments

Wasting your life online

Are we all spending too much time on the Internet? It seams that a lot of people I know, the people whose blogs I am reading, the people who I follow on Twitter, are actually some kind of electrical beings living inside the biggest web of all. They are constantly online. Seriously, when they are [...]

11 December 2008 | humor, internet, interview | 1 Comment