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From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Facebook Stats…Amazing

March 31, 2010

The following are from the official Facebook stat page here:

More than 400 million active users
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
More than 35 million users update their status each day
More than 60 million status updates posted each day
More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month
More than [...]

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Five Things Your Spam Filter Must Do

March 31, 2010

Spam. Unsolicited bulk email (UBE). Junk email. Unsolicited commercial email (UCE). Call it what you will, it’s become a major headache for companies. The volume of spam emails sent has increased exponentially during recent years, and so has the cost of dealing with that spam. While awareness of the problem has certainly increased, many companies [...]

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Treatment Room Computer Desktops

March 31, 2010

Here is a really simple yet effective tip. On the treatment room computers remove all the icons. That is all the little icons that are there for Dentrix, Schick,My Computer, My Documents, Practice Works, Internet Explorer and all the rest. This makes for a cleaner look and will be less tempting for a curious patient to [...]

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Twitter Unveils New Homepage

March 31, 2010

Twitter has just rolled out a new homepage that non-logged in users see when they visit Twitter.com. It features scrolling trending topics, “top tweets” a tweet from Justin Bieber was the first one I saw… go figure, and a “who’s here” with avatars of well-known users and brands that are on the microblogging service.
via Twitter [...]

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The Best Free Software of 2010

March 30, 2010

Free…what’s not to like, from PC Magazine.
Get what you DON’T pay for: Here are 196 programs that cost nothing but will make your computing life richer—all while keeping your wallet fat.
via The Best Free Software of 2010 – Reviews by PC Magazine.

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Document Scanner in your Keyboard

March 30, 2010

Rick Willeford pointed this product out to me at the Hinman Meeting. It is a scanner built into the computer keyboard. I routinely advise dental offices to get a flatbed desktop scanner in order to scan in x-rays. Rick agreed with that but he pointed out that scanning x-rays is a rare event while front desk people scan [...]

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Fun Dentist Reminder Cards

March 29, 2010

Cute.

Fun Dentist Reminder Cards.

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OSAP

March 29, 2010

Another online resource for dentists, Safety and Asepsis.
OSAP.

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Healthcare debate was not really about their health at all

March 26, 2010

From the LA times.
…healthcare has been, is and will remain a surrogate issue in the never-ending fight for national political control.
via Americans’ verdict: Obama’s healthcare debate was not really about their health at all | Top of the Ticket | Los Angeles Times.

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How the Tablet Will Change the World

March 24, 2010

Interesting article at the link. I am not ready to buy into all the tablet hype. As the author notes you still need a keyboard to do any real work.
…it also represents an ambitious rethinking of how we use computers. No more files and folders, physical keyboards and mouses. Instead, the iPad offers a streamlined [...]

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Eight Seconds

March 24, 2010

According to marketing research visitors spend an average of eight seconds on a web page before deciding whether or not to remain on the site.

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DoctorBase

March 24, 2010

I just had a quick tutorial on another online marketing service called DoctorBase. It is linked below. The focus of DoctorBase is not neccesarily to get your practice web site high on the Google ranking but to get web surfers to a landing page that is designed to get theses potential patients to follow up with a phone [...]

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Confucius in 2010

March 24, 2010

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.
-Author Unknown

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User Competency Matters

March 23, 2010

I am not sure I follow all the thinking in this article. However I understand the main idea. If you are creating a social media connection for your patients what are they good at? Here is an obvious example. If you treat teenagers as an orthodontist your patient population will have different Internet experience and skill than [...]

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Sleep apnea may extend life

March 23, 2010

What???
…moderate apnea may in fact extend their lives rather than shorten it.
via Israeli couple finds sleep apnea may extend life.

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Beauty Contest

March 22, 2010

Who is best looking? Check it out on Facebook.

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Great Time in KC…But

March 22, 2010

Friday in Kansas City
Saturday in Kanas City
Great Group I met some wonderful people…but I am such a weather wimp. Beautiful sunny spring day to snow over night. The people here from Missouri and Kansas just took it in stride but I was amazed at the sudden change.

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Hinman 2010

March 22, 2010

I will be presenting three session at the fabulous Hinman Dental Meeting in Atlanta March 25-27. Details here:

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Tower Placement

March 21, 2010

Do not put the tower on the floor, it is likely to be damaged from cleaning activities; it could easily get wet from spills or mopping and it will pick up lots of dirt and dust. It needs to be close to a power supply and allow access in and out for various cables. For [...]

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The Million Follower Fallacy

March 21, 2010

Audience Size Doesnt Prove Influence on Twitter: A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence.
via The Million Follower Fallacy – Audience Size Doesnt Prove Influence on Twitter – NYTimes.com.

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