How This Blog Has Developed…into a Business!

  Blogs, the simplest form of social media, can improve health education and at the same time aid interested doctors in marketing their medical practice.  It's a win-win. I started about 2.5 years ago with retinaeyedoctor.com.  It started as a bit of challenge to myself, but resulted after my attorney wife, Amy, introduced me to the techniques of Internet Marketing. Google Made … [Read more...]

Wong Gets Oriented

I took my son for his orientation to St. Mary's College last week.  It gave me an idea of how dependent these kids are on the Internet, not just computers, but the world wide web.  It also made it clear to me just where we "live" now and where we will be "living."  More and more we'll all be turning to the Internet for our credible health information...just look at what the kids do now. Many … [Read more...]

Web Site is One Year Old!

RetinaEyeDoctor.com was started one year ago!  I remain as energized as ever about social media, the Internet and patient education.  Creating one of the few objective souces of health information has been a lot  of work...but also very rewarding and fun. Traffic "Traffic" on the web is a good thing.  Traffic refers to the number of people coming to a web site.  The traffic here now … [Read more...]

The 100th Post to RetinaEyeDoctor.com: What I have Learned, Part I

This week celebrates my 100th post to the site.  I started in April, 2009, hit the 50th post in August and have been continuing to develop the site.  In August, to celebrate my 50th post, I wrote about what I had learned.  I would like to continue that theme this week. 1.  Stay Focused with Your Writing/Blogging. This is probably the hardest part about developing a weBlog.  This is also … [Read more...]

Social Media for a Medical Practice

When I started this blog/web site in April, I had a good idea of what I wanted to say, but I had no idea how a blog and social media would work together. Yesterday, I addressed over 60 eye doctors at a local continuing education conference. I discussed how I envision social media helping doctors and their patients by providing both with relevant and credible health information. My … [Read more...]

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