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Social Media

Take the Online Footprint Quiz

May 20, 2013

Are you net savvy? Take this quiz to determine your online footprint. Do you have a practice web page? Has the practice web page been updated in the last year? Do you send e-mails to patients? Do you have an office blog? Are you on Facebook, as a dentist? Do you Tweet? Are you listed [...]

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Scheduling Posts in Facebook

May 13, 2013

A Guest blog from Deploy Dental. The opinions expressed are from Deply Dental not Dr. Larry Emmott. However I believe it is valuable for dentists to get various takes on technology issues in order to make good technology choices. _____________________________________________________________________________ By: Deploy Dental Are you still using third party applications like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, etc. to [...]

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Come on to the Dentist

May 9, 2013

A very cool compilation of instagram images people actually took in the dental office, created by My Social Practice. HT Kevin Henry

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Sesame Upgrade

May 8, 2013

My friends at Sesame Communications have upgraded their website and launched the next generation of web design and SEO (search engine optimization) services. Web design includes a new responsive design framework that creates an optimized view from a single website for users on mobile devices, smartphones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers. The system responds to [...]

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Illinois issues regulations on how dentists can participate in Groupon

May 2, 2013

From the ADA: Illinois is the latest state to issue regulations on how health care providers, including dentists, can participate in social couponing websites without violating unethical fee-splitting laws. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulations on April 10 issued a statement that says as long as health care providers follow certain rules, advertising [...]

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Evaluating Facebook Home

April 25, 2013

A Guest blog from Deploy Dental. The opinions expressed are from Deply Dental not Dr. Larry Emmott. However I believe it is valuable for dentists to get various takes on technology issues in order to make good technology choices. _____________________________________________________________________________ By: Deploy Dental On April 12th, Facebook officially released its new mobile app called Facebook [...]

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Patient can sue dentist who tried to censor online reviews

April 24, 2013

More bad news for Stacey Makhnevich: A patient who faced legal threats after writing a negative review about his dentist has cleared a key legal hurdle, as a New York court rejected the dentist’s “ridiculous” arguments for dismissing the lawsuit. via Pain relief: patient can sue dentist who tried to censor online reviews | Ars [...]

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Graph Search Could Change Everything

April 23, 2013

The following is an excerpt from my Dentalcompare article. Follow the link for the whole thing. …There it is, “dentists my friends liked.” With Graph Search a patient “like” becomes far more valuable than it was before… With Graph Search the person looking for a dentist … can search their social graph to see which dentists [...]

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How to See EVERYTHING in Your Facebook News Feed

April 14, 2013

Are you frustrated with yet another change in how Facebook works. The linked Mashable article gives some tips on navigating the new system. Facebook’s algorithms determine by default what appears in your stream, a few additional, new options give you much greater control over what appears in your News Feed. For example, you can choose [...]

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Anti-Buzz: Public Journaling

April 9, 2013

Hello, it’s been a while. A couple of weeks back, in my last article before my little break to get married, we hit on something very important: software metaphors. Another piece of metaphorless software that you are likely familiar with, Facebook. Even with ‘book’ in its name, Facebook, and social media in general, don’t really [...]

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Facebook Changes News Feed (Again)

March 18, 2013

Have you noticed another change in the look of Facebook? Have you been hearing the buzz? Facebook announced in a press conference last Thursday that it has drastically revamped the all-important News Feed, turning it into a “personalized newspaper” that emphasizes what friends are sharing. via Facebook Changes News Feed; Implications for Merchants | Practical [...]

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Facebook Likes Can be Revealing

March 17, 2013

Research from the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Center and Microsoft Research Cambridge: Simply by delving into volunteers’ Likes, the researchers could determine in 95 percent of cases whether a person was Caucasian or African American and in 88 percent of cases whether the person was heterosexual or homosexual. They could determine whether the person is [...]

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Bing Now, a Crowdsourcing Tool to Find Local Businesses That Aren’t Crowded

March 12, 2013

Cool or creepy? A research project called Bing Now, demonstrated at Microsoft’s headquarters last week, could give Web searchers a way to gauge the current vibe of a bar or restaurant before they book a table. via Microsoft Demos Bing Now, a Crowdsourcing Tool to Find Local Businesses That Aren’t Crowded | MIT Technology Review. [...]

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Anti-Buzz: Don’t Panic

February 23, 2013

Welcome to my new time slot! After some discussion we’ve decided that pushing me to the weekend was a good call. We’ll see how it goes. Last week I gave you a heady piece about online society. I sort of stepped around some salient points about the relationship between businesses and social media, and decided [...]

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Bye, bye, Facebook: Americans abandoning in droves

February 20, 2013

Hmmm, A new Pew Research Center poll finds that a huge group of users, 61 percent, are taking breaks from Facebook…When asked why users were abandoning Facebook, 21 percent said they have run out of time to check in with the site. Some 10 percent “pointed toward a general lack of interest in the site,” [...]

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Google+ the Second Most Popular Social Media Platform?

February 18, 2013

HT Susan Richardson from Sesame Communications There’s been a huge shift in the social media landscape. It’s no longer the duopoly that we’ve assumed it was for so long. The third big social media platform has truly arrived and it’s blown Twitter out of the water… GlobalWebIndex’s latest report on Social Media usership is the [...]

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What Facebook’s Graph Search Means for Dentists

February 15, 2013

Dentalcompare article. This is a must read. “Graph Search “ If you have not heard that term before; pay attention it will soon have a huge impact on your dental practice via Emmott On Technology: What Facebook’s Graph Search Means for Dentists | Dentalcompare.com.

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Social Media Habits from Amex Open Forum

February 4, 2013
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Facebook Introduces “Graph Search”

January 31, 2013

A Guest blog from Deploy Dental. The opinions expressed are from Deply Dental not Dr. Larry Emmott. However I believe it is valuable for dentists to get various takes on technology issues in order to make good technology choices. _____________________________________________________________________________ By: Deploy Dental At a recent media event, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg commenced with what had [...]

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12 Unexpected Social Media Tips

January 25, 2013

From Amex Open Forum Believe it or not, social media extends beyond Facebook and Twitter. It’s any website where people can discuss content. YouTube is social media. Your blog is social media. Pinterest is social media. And yes, Facebook and Twitter are too. So if you want to leverage social media in a big way [...]

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