Comments on: Social media experience at Mayo Clinic http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/27/social-media-experience-at-mayo-clinic/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Atul Rai http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/27/social-media-experience-at-mayo-clinic/comment-page-1/#comment-210688 Atul Rai Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:04:09 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/27/social-media-experience-at-mayo-clinic/#comment-210688 quite agree, Jim. I believe that rather than being a separate event or activity, knowledge-sharing should be a natural by-product of the work people are doing. i had penned a few thoughts on this ... <a href="http://atulrai1.blogspot.com/2008/11/mashlogic.html" target="_blank">http://atulrai1.blogspot.com/2008/11/mashlogic.ht...</a> this way, its easier for people to connect with the idea of knowledge-sharing ... it becomes just sharing information about themselves, rather than about technology, or work ... and thats far simpler to do. quite agree, Jim. I believe that rather than being a separate event or activity, knowledge-sharing should be a natural by-product of the work people are doing. i had penned a few thoughts on this …

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this way, its easier for people to connect with the idea of knowledge-sharing … it becomes just sharing information about themselves, rather than about technology, or work … and thats far simpler to do.

]]> By: Lee Aase http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/27/social-media-experience-at-mayo-clinic/comment-page-1/#comment-210367 Lee Aase Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:36:19 +0000 http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2009/01/27/social-media-experience-at-mayo-clinic/#comment-210367 Thanks for your thoughtful write-up, Jim. My point is that most of the constraints large organizations have are self-imposed. They think they need to shoot HD video with a two-person crew, when for the Web a single person can do the job. It has taken us a while to get over that at Mayo Clinic, and we still want to shoot video that will be at least the equal of most of the video on the Web, but we need to think economically. And if you have people already hired to communicate for your organization, social media tools are primarily better ways for them to accomplish what they already need to do. Thanks for your thoughtful write-up, Jim.

My point is that most of the constraints large organizations have are self-imposed. They think they need to shoot HD video with a two-person crew, when for the Web a single person can do the job. It has taken us a while to get over that at Mayo Clinic, and we still want to shoot video that will be at least the equal of most of the video on the Web, but we need to think economically.

And if you have people already hired to communicate for your organization, social media tools are primarily better ways for them to accomplish what they already need to do.

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