Twitter

After meeting with with Hyland Software at last year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta, I’ve kept an eye on what they’re doing with social media. This year, I caught up with their Twitter account manager, Kaitlin Maurer, who gave me the details of her tweeting and blogging success. Check it out:

I had a chance to meet up with Matthew Browning at HIMSS11. Matthew is a nurse and healthcare IT entrepreneur, whose product—YourNurseIsOn.com—is getting a lot of buzz. Matthew talks about how important Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are to his marketing efforts.

I talk to a lot of health care B2B marketers, and most of them say that social media hasn’t matured enough to be a viable marketing tactic for their organizations. That may be true for their individual organization’s traditional marketing objectives. But social media still has a place in their marketing mix, and that place [...]

So let’s say you took my advice: you gathered Twitter handle info from your trade show prospects and you grabbed a grundle of other Twitter handles from your trade show re-tweet promotion. Now what? Nurture your little birds. Chances are, most of the Twitter accounts won’t be held by people who are qualified leads. You’re [...]

Trade show leads and Twitter: Are they compatible?

11 June 2010

On the heels of my last post on trade show lead gathering, the thought occurred to me that in the social age, health care B2B marketers may want to be gathering more than just the standard trade shows contact information. As customer and prospect interactions on social networks increase in volume, health care vendors should [...]

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Twitter’s like a box of chocolates, or, Health care hashtags

31 March 2010

Apologies to Forrest Gump, but you truly never know what you’re going to get out of Twitter. Like many of you, I follow some common hashtags for our industry on Twitter: #hcmktg (short for health care marketing), #hcsm (short for health care social media) and #healthIT. Lately, I seem to be posting more to and [...]

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