Your EMS organization or fire department can monitor the social web using searches and RSS feeds. Step 1: Create at least one Google Alert for your department, organization or business. Consider other alerts for names of key personnel, community name with key words like fire and EMS, and other search terms relevant to your business […]
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Social Media Activity Triage
Find new to us house. Make offer on house. Offer accepted. List old house. Sell old house. Move all stuff to new to us house. Those 6 sentences sum up almost every minute of my free time since early March, 2012. Life has been busy and hectic for me as I am sure it has […]
This video is a nice overview of what it takes to become an EMT (at least in New York state). Does your EMS education program have a video on YouTube? (hint: you should. YouTube is the 2nd leading search engine behind Google which owns YouTube)
Google+ is Google’s foray into social networking and how to use it for business is the topic of [amazon-product text=”Google+ for Business” type=”text”]0789749149[/amazon-product] by marketing expert and social media evangelist Chris Brogan. In the book, which I read on my Kindle Fire, Chris overviews Google+ with a focus on business. Considering the challenge of writing a book during […]
A reader asked, “Do you maintain a calendar of EMS conferences?” That sounds like a huge project to build and maintain a calendar. To find upcoming EMS conferences I would do the following: 1. Check for an EMS conference calendar at the big 3 EMS media websites – EMS1.com, EMSWorld.com, and JEMS.com. 2. Search Facebook […]
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2012 Challenges and Connection Points
Challenges in 2012 As I look ahead to 2012 I see several challenges on the horizon: 1) Continuing to build on the momentum and success I have in my job at CentreLearn, as well as my passions like the EMSEduCast podcast and writing projects like this blog and my EMS1.com column. 2) Learning new skills […]
The new App, Google Currents, creates a digital magazine of Everyday EMS Tips. To access: 1. Install the Google Currents app on your Android device from the App Market or iPhone/iPad from the iTunes app store. 2. After installing search for Everyday EMS Tips 3. Subscribe to the Currents edition of Everyday EMS Tips 4. […]
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3 Kindle Fire Feature Requests
I have been enjoying my Kindle Fire immensely for the last three weeks. I have used it to read 4 books (and counting), watch lots of videos, browse the web, update my social network status, and stream my favorite podcasts. My kids have also been using it to play lots of games like Slice It […]
At the Pinnacle EMS conference Chris Montera and I talked about reasons to use video conferencing. Is your service using video conferencing? ParamedicTV is powered by EMS1.com