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Top 10 Reasons People Don’t “Like” Your Facebook Posts

May 29, 2013

From Amex Open Forum: Your business is finally on Facebook, but no one seems interested in what you post. Find out why, so you can stop wasting time and start attracting fans. via Top 10 Reasons People Don’t “Like” Your Facebook Posts | | The New OPEN ForumThe New OPEN Forum. All ten reasons are [...]

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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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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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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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E-mail for Business Development

March 15, 2013

From Amex Open Forum: Quick question: Is the number-one marketing tool to grow your small business: Facebook, Google+, or Email via 10 Smart Ways to Grow Your Email List – OPEN Forum :: American Express OPEN Forum. The answer is e-mail. The linked article is mostly about growing a business e-mail list. That does not have [...]

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Google SEO and You

February 28, 2013

If you are reading this blog you are (by definition) aware of the power of the Internet to spread information. The Internet has fundamentally changed how people seek and find information, which in turn has destroyed the old ways of business communication like printed magazines and yellow pages ads. Actually there are two things which [...]

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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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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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Yankee Dental Hands On Jan 31

January 20, 2013

I am very excited to be presenting two 3 hour hands on programs at the Yankee Dental Congress in Boston, Jan 31. Sesame Communications is sponsoring and helping me present two sessions on social media and digital marketing. We will look at your Google presence, discuss YouTube and Facebook among other online resources and then [...]

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The Roach, the Brand and Social Media

January 7, 2013

From Bruce Terkel Think back twenty years ago. You had just checked into your hotel. You went up to your room and found a disgustingly large cockroach scrabbling around in your bathtub. After you screamed or screeched or hopped up on the toilet tank, you called the front desk and… …Now picture what would happen [...]

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The Importance of Author Profile Photos

January 2, 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 Google Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) are typically very similar in appearance. [...]

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Facebook Pay to Play

December 12, 2012

You have worked hard and have managed to get 523 people to like your practice on Facebook, Congratulations. Now whenever you post some interesting dental tidbit on Facebook 523 people will see it and be reminded of your dental office… Not quite. The upshot is that brands can still access fans of their Facebook pages [...]

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RecordLinc

December 3, 2012

I am working with a new online service designed to help dentists securely transfer patient information. It is called RecordLinc. More to come.

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