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...]

My 100th Post: What I Have Learned, Part II

This is part two of my celebration of my 100th post to this web. Read Part I. 6.  Google Ranks Pages, Not Web Sites - this was at first hard for me to comprehend, but it now makes sense.  What this means to you, is that you should NOT worry about the whole site, that is, your entire site does NOT have to be perfect!  If you work hard (at the SEO, etc.), you may be fortunate enough to have … [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...]

Part 3. “Credible Information.” Using Social Media to Build Your Practice

Good morning. I closed yesterday by talking about the need for relevant and credible information.  Providing relevant information is Google's (and the other search engines) responsibility.  Providing credible information is my responsibility.  Promoting relevant and credible information is your responsibility. "Because the Internet says so...................." Now that you are provided … [Read more...]

Making Social Media a Part of Medical Practice, Part II

I closed my last post (yesterday) with a comment that doctors are not too internet savvy.  It is true.   I do think many doctors are very good with email and can search the internet, but the rest is a blackbox, especially this social media stuff.  Doctors need to catch up.  Social media is going to make us catch up.  I want to close the gap. One attribute of social media is the ability … [Read more...]

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