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No Joke: World running out of IP addresses.

July 29, 2010

Here’s the story as given to me by a friend. It sounds about right.
The internet protocol used by the majority of web users, IPv4, provides for about four billion IP addresses — the unique 32-digit number used to identify each computer, website or internet-connected device.
There are currently only 232 million IP addresses left — enough for about [...]

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Claim your Listing

July 28, 2010

 I have written about this several times in the past Here: However it is a still a big issues most dentists know nothing about. If you have not done it recently: Google your self immediately. What do you find?  See the map like the one shown here (for Chinese food in Alameda if you are interested). [...]

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Practice and Thrive

July 26, 2010

I just received a new ADA e-mail newsletter called Practice & Thrive focused on practice management issues. The July issue has articles on patient satisfaction and the economy. Interesting take away: 66.7% of general dentists update fees every year. The link below is from the satisfaction article and links to the ADA Dental Practice Hub (membership [...]

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Grow Your Practice Webinar

July 26, 2010

The link below will take you to Webinar on Growing your dental practice.
New Ways to Grow Your Practice as a Dentist (ExecSense Webinars).

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500,000,000 Facebook users

July 22, 2010

Internet rumor from DoctorBase…amazing. What does it all mean? DocotrBase says it means we can’t ignore facebook, OK, sure…but what does it all mean?
People in the world with Internet access: 1,800,000,000
People in the world now on Facebook: 500,000,000
For the mathletes out there like ourselves, that’s over 25% – better than 1 in 4 – of [...]

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.CO Get the Perfect Domain Name

July 21, 2010

Another chance to get the perfect domain name? Maybe. In theory dentists and other professionals were expected to use the dot pro domainsreleased in 2003 and hardly anyone did. The dot com name had already become a generic term and much desred as a web address. Dot pro never gained traction with users or the public for a [...]

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Dental Ratings Network

July 21, 2010

The link below is to a ratings site designed by the very smart people at PLZ. For better or for worse user reviews are gaining in power. You can think of online reviews as e-word of mouth. If you haven’t done it recently check your google local listing. Any reviews? Are they positive? How about [...]

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AppointMaster-What is it?

July 16, 2010

I have not used this product but it looks interesting. It allows patients to make appointments online. I believe this could be very effective for re-call not so sure about complex restorative.
AppointMaster-What is it?.

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Ethics and Facebook

July 15, 2010

There are some ”amazing” doctors who can’t type…huh?
…the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs last month passed a resolution to “study the issue of physician’s use of social networking, as exemplified on sites such as Facebook and Twitter” and report to the AMA’s House of Delegates at its meeting in November.
via Docs venture [...]

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Who owns the website???

July 14, 2010

Great tip from Jason Lipscomb. Plus. Who owns the domain name? That is the name of your web site like (www.drjenkins.com). You as the practice owner should own the name. However sometimes the web developer registers the name to themselsves.
Most important SEO tip ever!!! Make sure you have the log in information and a way [...]

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Facebook vs. Website

July 12, 2010

The DoctorBase blog item linked below makes some good points and has some ideas I can’t yet agree with. The good point is that you do not need to spend big bucks for web hosting. Hosting BTW is the cost of having a sever on the Internet store your site and make it available. What [...]

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The Healthcare IT Guy

July 9, 2010

Another good online resource. The link below is to a blog written, as the name implies, by a Health Care IT guy. I found it via Medpedia. The blog is designed more for physicians but still has lots of information that is relevant to dentists.
The Healthcare IT Guy — Shahid’s healthcare IT, EMR, EHR, PHR, medical [...]

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5 Social Media Trends to Watch Right Now

July 8, 2010

From the AmEx Open Forum via Mashable. The five trends are:

Location
Group Buying
Mobile Ads
Mobile Payments
Policy

Follow the link for details. Trend one, location, has particular significance for dentists. Also see here for more social media insights.
Overall, the focus on location is great news for a lot of small businesses, many of whom have vested interest in catering [...]

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DocNog Find a Doctor App

July 7, 2010

I-Phone app.
With this simple and easy-to-use application, you can search for family doctors and specialists, hospitals, and urgent care facilities.
via DocNog California free download for iPhone, iPod and iPad – iFreeware.

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The anti-buzz: Social Media

July 6, 2010

The buzz: Social Media is useless.
The other buzz: Social Media is the key to mobilizing a gigantic army of customers with unquestioning loyalty to your business who will do your bidding forever and ever.
The anti-buzz: Social Media is word-of-mouth finally made concrete. You can participate in the conversation yourself, so long as you make the [...]

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20 Ways Businesses Use Twitter

July 5, 2010

20 Ways Businesses Use Twitter: 20 Ways Business are Using Twitter – BusinessWeek.

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Word of Mouth 2.0

July 5, 2010

Click through to this article from the Doctorbase blog. Some very interesting statistics and observations. They see Facebook as the answer. I am still reserving judgement on Facebook in particular on the other hand I have no doubt social media is the awesome, huge, mega force of the future.

 A recent report from Nielsen (the TV & [...]

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Before and After

July 1, 2010

Research by Sesame Communications (details here) found that potential patients searching for a cosmetic dentist were influenced by before and after galleries. Follow the link below for some samples from TNT.
Tips.TNTDental.com.

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SEO Sweet Spot – Three-Words

June 30, 2010

Interesting. Try it out; create a three word search for your practice and see what happens. For example: dentist – city – cosmetic.
How many words does it take to get to the center of good search traffic? According to a new study by online ad network Chitika, three – as in, three-word search queries drive [...]

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Worldwide Social Media Day

June 30, 2010

June 30 is worldwide social media day…who knew?
Watch Worldwide Social Media Day Live Streams.

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