FollowFriday
#ff #hcsmct @CTHealth @ctdph @CHCConnecticut @HealthJusticeCT @cshhc @CTHealthCenters @CTVoices @WCGMemorialFund
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 21:19Earlier today, @CTHealth tweeted about these groups being people that do #hcsmct right. It actually reflects an important discussion I’ve been in this week and I was glad to see the tweet and use it as a starting point for my follow Friday blog post.
For those who haven’t read my follow Friday blog posts, I list my suggestions for the week, and then provide some thoughts on why I’ve suggested them.
I use Twitterfeed to pull the blog post and create a tweet, so it will go up on Twitter, with a link back to the blog. Nice, easy, and automated.
For those who aren’t acquainted with the hashtag #ff, that is follow Friday, a means of sharing information about who you think is worth following.
#hcsmct is a newly concocted hashtag. There is a hashtag, #hcsm for Health Care Social Media. Different groups use variations of the #hcsm hashtag for their area, so some of us have talked about #hcsmct for people doing social media for health care issues in Connecticut.
@CTHealth is the Connecticut Health Foundation, a very important group dealing with health issues in Connecticut. @CTDPH is the Connecticut Department of Public Health. It is great to see a state agency making strong use of Twitter. They are now just a few followers away from the 2000 mark.
@CHCConnecticut is the Community Health Center, headquartered in Middletown with sites across the state. I am their social media manager. @HealthJusticeCT is a group focusing on raising awareness of and addressing health disparities in Connecticut. I’ve had some great discussions with people from @HealthJusticeCT.
@cshhc is Cornell Scott Hill Health Center in New Haven. The are a community health center, like CHC is and it is great to see them using Twitter.
@CTHealthCenters is the association of community health centers in Connecticut. I’ve spoken a little bit with people there and it is great to see them on Twitter as well.
@CTVoices is Connecticut Voices for Children, a group I’ve supported even before twitter was around.
@WCGMemorialFund is the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund works collaboratively to improve education for CT's children. This is a new group to me and I look forward to learning more about them.
Together, all of us can work find ways of addressing health issues in our state, whether it be focusing on children, health disparities, on serving the underprivileged, or focusing on public health issues.
I really look forward to seeing what #hcsmct can do together.
#ff @cjpwisdomphotos @lnreynolds @ckieff @adamkmiec @suzboop @dr_manhattan @jodmentum
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 19:48Sometime over the past couple of days, I reached my 3500 follower on Twitter. It probably happened at Digiday Social where everyone was talking about what matters is engagement and not number of followers.
With that, I'm using Friday Follow Helper again to come up with a list of people that I'm following. It is an odd combination of people, reflecting many different groups I connect with.
Starting off the list is @cjpwisdomphoto, a Connecticut Blogger I sometimes run into. Next is @lnreynolds with whom I often talk about social media as it relates to community health centers. I think I've mentioned both of them recently, so I won't spend more time talking about them today.
Next on the list is @ckieff. I often run into him at #digiday conferences. I didn't see him in New York yesterday, but we did retweet each other a bit. @adamkmiec was one of the speakers at Digiday who did some interesting hypebusting.
@suzboop is a long time friend from nonprofit technology. I used to run into her a bit in virtual worlds, but I haven't been as active in different virtual worlds recently, so it has been a long time since we talked. She listened in on some of the #digiday conference and asked about how it related to #nptech. Hopefully, I'll expand on this more soon.
@dr_manhattan is another interesting contact from the realm of virtual worlds. I'm not sure where I first connected with him, but it was with respect to the virtual worlds, and he shared a link to an android app for virtual worlds that I've started playing with. Very cool!
Ending this weeks list is @jodmentum. We spoke a bit this week about the changes to Facebook and what it means to all of us.
#FollowFriday @lnreynolds @joecascio @nateosit @cherylbudge @cjpwisdomphotos @vcha_advocacy @cartooninperson
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 20:42This week, I used Follow Friday Helper to come up with my list of people to follow. Basically, the list fits into two different groups. The first group is friends from the health care social media circles, especially people working with community health centers.
@lnreynolds @nateosit @vcha_advocacy and @cartooninperson fall into this category. I’ve known @lnreynolds the longest. We’ve often talked social media and community health centers via many channels. I haven’t known @nateosit quite as long, and I don’t believe I’ve met him face to face yet. He’s a little more on the geeky side, which I enjoy. @vcha_advocacy and @cartooninperson are fairly new people for me to be talking about CHC related stuff with.
The other group is the Connecticut group, @joecascio, @cherylbudge, and @cjpwisdomphotos. These are all people I’ve met face to face and have communicated a lot with. I’ve been to Joe’s house. He’s drank my hard cider, and I hope he had a great birthday. I’ve met Cheryl at various social media events. Ending out the list is @cjpwisdomphotos. I’ve only met him a few times, but we communicate a bit via different channels.
So, that’s this week’s #ff
#ff #ct #politics @ChrisDonovanCT @ChrisMurphyCT @JoeCourtneyCT @RepJoeCourtney @BlakeForMilford @journalinquirer @CTNewsJunkie
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 06:42As we head into the political season, I thought I should highlight some of the candidates that I follow on Twitter, as this Follow Friday (#FF) post. For those who are Twitter regulars, hashtags, like #ff, #ct, and #politics are ways of marking topics when you have only 140 characters to use, and Twitter accounts regularly start with an at-sign to indicate they are twitter accounts.
I’m starting off with @ChrisDonovanCT. Chris is running for Congress in the fifth district and this is his campaign Twitter account. He will be opening his campaign headquarters in Meriden this evening after starting his tour around the district this week.
There is a site called Klout which measures the influence a person has on Twitter. It is a scale of 0 to 100, and Chris’ Klout currently comes in at 29.
Next, is @ChrisMurphyCT. Chris Murphy is currently the Congressman from the fifth district and he’s running for U.S. Senate. I ran into Chris last week at an even in New Haven. He says that he’s been working on his social media and his campaign twitter account has a Klout score of 50.
Joe Courtney has two Twitter accounts that I follow. One is his reelection campaign twitter account. It has a Klout score of 1, with only 167 followers and hasn’t been updated since February. His Twitter account as Congressman, @RepJoeCourtney has is much more active and has a Klout score of 48.
At the end of the list for today is @BlakeForMilford. Friends of mine live in Milford and had been asking me about Ben’s online presence. @BlakeForMilford only has 25 followers, hasn’t been updated since July, and doesn’t even have a Klout score yet.
For those of you who don’t want to follow the politicians directly, there is always the Journal Inquirer with over a thousand followers and a Klout score of 31 and @CTNewsJunkie with over 3000 followers and a Klout score of 43.
These days more and more politicians are using Twitter to get their message out. President Obama mentioned Twitter in his speech last night, so it remains More and more news organizations are using Twitter to highlight their headlines, and everyone can benefit from this by checking out specific Twitter accounts, even if they choose not to tweet themselves.
#ff #EAv API @benrobbins @Mamacita @MrktgMommy_JWil @rough_edges @ejc @Merlandre
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 09/02/2011 - 13:55I’ve taken a little time to relax amidst the post hurricane Irene cleanup, do to a little recreational programming. It the sort of thing that I do when I’m stressed. My latest project has been to play with the Empire Avenue API. Using this, I’ve come up with a few people to suggest for Follow Friday.
@benrobbins owns 50 shares of (e)AHYNES1. His Empire Ave shares are trading at about 44 and he has strong earnings. He also has a strong KLOUT score. He describes himself as an “Entrepreneur, inbound marketer, [and] general web geek”.
I’m not sure who I originally came across @Mamacita. I want to say that it was through something like MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog several years ago. I bought a few of her Empire Ave shares when I first started. She also currently has strong earnings and a strong KLOUT score. She describes herself as a “Social Media Specialist, Writer, Speaker, Internet Watchdog, Absentminded Professor, Education Advocate/Critic, [and] Mommy”.
Next on my list is @MrktgMommy_JWil I think I probably found her on Empire Ave. She owns 10 shares of (e0AHYNES1. She has strong earnings, but her KLOUT score is only in the twenties. She describes herself as a “Blogger at MarketingMommy.com. Mother, Christian, book-lover, and hockey fan.”
@rough_edges is next on my list. He doesn’t have a lot of Twitter activity, but still has pretty good earnings. Not surprisingly, his KLOUT score is in the twenties. This is another person I probably found via Empire Ave. He owns 50 shares in (e)AHYNES1. He lacks a description on Twitter.
@ejc describes himself as a “Lead designer at Scopely. Full time Designer, Developer, Illustrator, Mac Nerd. Part time Writer, Actor, [and] Improviser.” He has strong earnings and a good KLOUT score. I only own a few shares in (e)EJC and he doesn’t own any in me. I’m not sure how I stumbled across him.
Ending off this week’s list is @Merlandre. He describes himself as a “retired HR director”. He owns 10 shares of (e)AHYNES1 has had good earnings, but his KLOUT score is only 30.
I’ve bought a few more shares in each of them, and will probably do some similar buying over the coming days. Later, I hope to write in more details about how I came up with the list, some of the caveats, issues with the #EAv API, and other ideas I have about programming with the #EAv API. Let me know your thoughts, especially if you have looked at the API.
