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[26 May 2007 | 3 Comments | 43 views]

Jeremy Pepper has an interesting post about social media and healthcare over at Pop PR Jots.
Jeremy joined in a panel with Amy Tenderich, from Diabetes Mine.
From his post, these three paragraphs – in particular – struck a cord.
When explaining social media, I use a Town Hall analogy. From a conversation with a friend, she wrote it out like this: Imagine a small New England town with a highly civically-active community. On a regular basis this tightly-knit community hosts Town Hall meetings to discuss current events, areas of concern, etc. Now …

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[30 Mar 2007 | Comments Off | 135 views]

Facebook is an interesting social media community. For ASCCA’s interests of connecting with college students, it seems like the natural community to engage. ASCCA wants college students to work as counselors, program staff and for internships. So, we’re trying something new to reach them.
ASCCA is going to run approximately 50,000 flyers a day, for three days, targeted at students from the following universities: University of Georgia, University of Florida, Troy State University, Montevallo, University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of North Alabama, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) and …

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[8 Jan 2007 | 3 Comments | 23 views]

For the past week, I’ve seen references to this story on TV and in the newspapers.

The parents have been overwhelmed by media attention. They started a blog to answer questions. So far, the one post has received 1477 comments. They are ess…

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[19 Dec 2006 | Comments Off | 7 views]

For about 20 years, Camp ASCCA has been taking trips to Disney World just before Christmas. This week, almost 40 campers and counselors are down in Florida enjoying the Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom.
…the Disney Trip is one of the most popu…