Writing about social media

StethoscopeThe folks at East Tennessee Medical News were kind enough to ask me to write a brief overview on the potential role of social and digital media in medical practices. It is now in the latest issue and online.

It works as a companion piece to a nice story by Bridget Garland about Wellmont Health System’s award-winning use of Facebook in their practice in upper-East Tennessee.

How about you? Do you use social media to help find medical advice or even to select a physician? I’d be curious to learn how you use online resources to manager your health care tasks and chores. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.

I thought it would be a good idea to collect some links of blog posts Katie’s friends and readers wrote in response to Henry’s death. I think- at some point in the future- she’ll take some comfort from the kind words shared and the frank and serious conversations Henry inspired.

By the time she gets ready to read these, I wanted them to be easy for her to find. So, I’m putting together this online memory album of blog entries about Henry and his family for Katie to read when she’s ready.

It is quite likely I won’t catch all of them, but I’ll do my best. Please feel free to let me know if there are others you know about.

Katie has been courageous in sharing the story of Henry’s addiction and the events that led to his hospitalization and death. Now, she has taken on the challenge of bravely sharing the raw wound of grief as she also pursues justice in the search for those who assaulted her son. Her courage has inspired words of comfort and support from bloggers across the online spectrum: from the New York Times to small personal journals.

A collection of blog posts penned in the days following Henry’s death follows after the jump.

UPDATE: To date, I have identified and linked to posts on 161 blogs.

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Knoxified

Thanks to the good folks over at Knoxify this morning for sharing some photo love. They’ve featured my “O Little Town” photo (that I previously spotlighted here) from my Flickr set as one of their “View of Knoxville” featured photos. That’s a nice way to start the day.

Why don’t you head over and explore Knoxify today? There’s usually a good conversation or three going on.

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A Decade of Change

old_mac512Though I am tempted to launch into my decennial argument that the decade doesn’t end until we reach 2011, everyone is already starting to put out retrospective lists of the current decade.

By way of Michael Silence over at No Silence Here, I have been reviewing the Webby Awards’ list of the ten most influential internet moments of the decade. Mostly, it got me thinking about how the work I do has been affected by the ongoing evolution in digital communications and social media.iphone

I’d like to write a more in-depth blog post article about this topic, but I need your help. Why not share some thoughts with me on how the internet has changed the way you work (or even your occupation entirely) in the past ten years in the comments section. Feeling shy? Feel free to send me a note to blog (at) shanerhyne.com

I’ve been negligent in thanking some blogging friends for giving my new blogging project a shout out on their blogs and elsewhere, so allow me to rectify that situation now.

First, thanks to Michael Silence over at the Knoxville News Sentinel where he blogs at No Silence Here (and allows me to contribute as my schedule allows). He included a nice mention of the blog in his Sunday column in the paper’s printed edition earlier this month.

Also, R. Neal– one of East Tennessee’s great bloggers and host of Knoxviews.com, shared nice words about my blog (and Rikki Hall‘s wonderful new blog, too) and even included it in his live-stream in the sidebar.

Michael and R. Neal are two of the leading lights in blogging in East Tennessee (and I’d put them up there with high national rankings, too). In addition to providing me with entertaining reading for several years, they’ve also been actively encouraging me to get back to blogging full time. Of course, this all puts some amount of pressure on me to make sure I work hard to continue to earn their recommendations. Thanks for the support, guys!

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