A lot of times in the online world, you see “best of” lists for women. And that’s cool. I think that in a lot of instances women are woefully underrated in comparison to men, still. However, this does not mean that we should not give a big round of applause to men who are working their butts off. While it’s important for women to support each other, and while it’s important for men to support each other, a little cross-pollination in the way of support could do wonders, methinks. Therefore, with the women having gone first on Monday, I now present 60 men whose praise must be sung.
Musings
60 Women whose praise must be sung
Recently, I had the great honor of appearing on a list called 200 Fearless women online and in Social Media. As I scanned the names, I had two sensations. First, I could not believe my great fortune in appearing on such a list. It was a humbling experience. But I also lamented that so many wonderful women so seldom get their own credit. I want to highlight those women here. Follow them on Twitter, get to know them, and you’ll see why they’re on my list of top women in the world.
[Incidentally, I’m sure the formatting on this will not look quite right, and I do apologize. These kinds of posts are difficult to get to look good – at least for me. It’s the content that counts!]
3 ways Social Media will change health care
Dr. Susan Giurleo is an amazing woman whom I met initially via Third Tribe. I asked if she’d be willing to write her thoughts on how health care could more effectively use Social Media, and this is her response!
Social media isn’t just for business, marketing or showing all your friends how cute your kids are. Social media has the power to change how we access and use health care. The Pew Internet Research Foundation found that over 80% of Americans search for health care information online. Many use information and suggestions offered by friends and family on Facebook and Twitter.
Social media is changing how we find information, communicate and how we define “relationship.” Patients and health care providers can leverage social media to improve health outcomes and lower costs.
Here are just 3 ways I think social media will change health care:
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anybody can play the fool
I am starting to dig into Mark Twain’s epic autobiography, and I just got through reading his accounts of how he ended up publishing General US Grant’s memoirs. There are two rather surprising discoveries in these Twain writings. First, you can tell that he absolutely worshiped Grant, as many likely did in the 1880s. Grant, after all, had led the Union to victory in the Civil War. This is funny only because Twain was often so cynical that seeing him idolize a person is downright weird!
The other lesson you see in these writings, though, is something quite different. What you learn is that Ulysses S. Grant, “Unconditional Surrender” Grant, the man who accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, was often played for a fool.
Social Media and the Journalist
In this section of the Engagement Series, I want to explore how industries other than marketing are using Social Media engagement. I asked this question of Debbi Morello, a journalist and a woman whom I admire a great deal. This great post is her response!
Where do I begin? Needless to say there is a great deal of discussion and many opinions about journalists using social media and if you asked a journalist six months ago I suspect the answers would be different than they are today, or more specifically, since the dawn of the Arab Spring. More broadly, since the beginning of 2011, what I consider to be an unprecedented year insofar as ‘news events’ literally one after the other in natural disasters, civil unrest and conflict. Try to imagine these “major news events” before social media. I know for the younger audience, that may be difficult. For the more seasoned of us, it’s not.
I am one of these “cross-cutting” people, an experienced journalist, experienced in the world of disaster relief, experienced in conflict zones … at a time when the only way to transmit information was through satellite phones… kind of like messages in a bottle when we fast forward to 2011. And certainly being a purist and a traditionalist I was not using any social media tools at this time last year, May 2010. Fast forward to May 2011, I’m in a new world.
You can only control your own destiny
When we think of Abraham Lincoln, we think of a man who is idolized not only by Americans but by people from all around the world. Because we idolize him so, it seems easy to visualize everyone during the Civil War (well, okay, everyone in the North) idolizing him. In fact, though, few things could be further from the truth. Abraham Lincoln, after barely winning the Presidency in 1860, was in fact despised and ridiculed by most people he encountered.
How can a man whom so few admire evolve into one of the most beloved historical figures in the world? Circumstance is certainly one aid. Would Lincoln have been such a great President if he had not encountered all of the events of the Civil War? Would he have been remembered as such a great man if the war had not forced him to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
But there is another side to this man’s long-lasting fame too, I think. It can be summed up by a short line that appears in Team of Rivals.
Lincoln never wrote a letter while angry.