Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Social media marketing is at an all time high with Twitter, Facebook. LinkedIn and now Pinterest.  I was not surprised to see that Pinterest “traffic” has increased by 145% since their  launch in 2008.  The demographic is primarily women “pinning” and “re-pinning” their dream wedding, decorating the perfect home and dressing children that they may not […]

Cindy O’Neill from Microsoft interviewed Perficient’s Martin Sizemore at HIMSS 2012 on accountable care, meaningful use, mobility, social media, cloud, portals and business intelligence solutions.

This afternoon Carol Rozwell presented a session titled The Social Scenario: Business gets Social.  In this session, she points out the drivers behind social media and described scenario planning as a tool to develop a social strategy. I thought her most interesting points were in  in how to go about setting your strategy for Social […]

The afternoon session of the Gartner conference started off with a collaboration by Gene Phifer and jim Murphy talking about Employee Portals.  Originally, most portals were aimed at employees.  More recently vendors and business have been turning to Customer portals.  But with the rise of social capabilities, the Employee Portal and Intranet are again a […]

We asked social media influencers at HIMSS 2012 to explain the importance of social media in healthcare.

On the HIMSS 2012 show floor we interviewed Perficient’s own Steve Nitenson on the importance of empowering patients through connecting them to their data.

Mashable.com has an interesting article about up and comer Pinterest.  I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard about it until about two weeks ago when  a colleague raved about how great Pinterest was and how easy it was to capture your interests from a variety of places and pin them to your page.   Little […]

Mashable.com has an interesting article about up and comer Pinterest.  I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard about it until about two weeks ago when  a colleague raved about how great Pinterest was and how easy it was to capture your interests from a variety of places and pin them to your page.   Little […]

Once upon a time, when you took a stroll down the aisle of an airplane in mid-flight, you would see lots of people playing solitaire on their Windows laptops. Today, you see many, many more people engaged in intense concentration on game of “Angry Birds.” Angry Birds is an addictive, fun, easy to play game […]

While HIE’s are gradually building up a head of steam and making significant strides in a number of areas, there is a dark horse jumping on the social media train and offering a viable low-cost alternative: SocialHIE(TM). First, let’s take a look at how the HIE landscape is changing. According to the 2011 eHealth Initiative […]

  What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution […]

  What’s coming in IBM Connections?  At Lotusphere 2012 IBM laid its plans for Connections in a general session. Of course, they had a disclaimer that the product is still under development, so these features may change by the time the final product is released. The theme for the new version include: Social platform evolution […]