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EMS World 2012 Presentation Ideas

A few weeks ago I received my evaluations from participants in my two sessions at EMS World Expo 2011. I presented two sessions: Trends in Online Emergency Responder Education (view the slides) Using Social Media to Market your EMS Agency (view the slides) The evaluation scores and comments are about what I expected. I thought […]

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EMS Tips

Posts Outside the Service Area: Someone Always Knows

I am convinced that in the workplace any incident of wrong doing – cheating, stealing, etc. – is always witnessed or realized by a co-worker. The part I have never understood is the lengths individuals will go to either pretend what they know is happening is not happening or protect someone that is clearly violating […]

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Alternate Posting Locations October 2011

Blog.CentreLearn.com – My day job is being the Director of Education for CentreLearn Solutions. I add about two posts a week to the CentreLearn blog and manage our social media accounts. Top Questions about CL Courses for Firefighters, Paramedics, and EMTs Build your own Online Training Content FDA Drug Safety Communication on Zofran – this […]

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EMS Education Tips

Presentation: Learning Management Systems for Small Fire Departments

I recently presented at the Ohio Society of Fire Service Instructors Symposium in Columbus, Ohio. My three presentations were: Trends in Online Education for Emergency Responders Creating Social Media Content for Fire and EMS Education Learning Management Systems for Small Fire Departments John Dillon from C3Softworks helped me integrate audience polling into my PowerPoint presentations. I […]

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Health and Wellness

Alternate Posting Location: Tips for Running while Traveling

Shared some tips for running out of town, while traveling on the Loving the Run blog yesterday. Last night I ran at a health club near my hotel in Columbus, Ohio. Today I am giving several presentations at the Ohio Society of Fire Service Instructors Symposium. Trends in Online Education Social Media Content Creation Learning […]

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Social Media Tips

Posts Outside the Service Area: The Changing of the Seasons Edition

Each month I try to collect/curate articles of interest to me that you might find interesting as well. Enjoy reading. I am outside playing in a leaf pile. Early in the month, fresh off an outstanding EMS World Expo, Dave Konig shared the Ultimate Social Media Protocol by riffing off the ultimate EMS protocol written […]

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Social Media Tips

EMS Blog Promotion Tips

For a long time I joked that the only regular blog reader I had was my mom. I wrote dozens of posts that received less than 10 page views. Gradually traffic has built and I have used a variety of techniques, some successful and others not, to increase visits. I am now regularly surprised at […]

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Social Media Tips

Slides: Using Social Media to Market Your EMS Agency #EMSWorldExpo

Slides from my 2011 EMS World Expo presentation, Using Social Media to Market Your EMS Agency. Using social media to market your ems agency slideshare View more presentations from Greg Friese. If you are interested in having me present this or other topics at your conference please contact me.

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Operations

Video: Burbank Fire Dept Ambulance will be at #EMSWorldExpo

Video tour and showcase of new Burbank Fire Department Ambulance that will be showcased at EMS World Expo next week. I really like videos and social media efforts like this that give EMS agencies and Fire departments an opportunity to: 1) Showcase the work we do 2) Explain the important features of an ambulance or […]

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EMS Tips

Using Social Media at EMS World Expo #EMSWorldExpo

Dave Konig, the Social Medic, has written a great article about using Social Media tools and networks to prepare for and make the most of social media tools at EMS World Expo. I have one contrary comment – Put your #$%@! phone back in your pocket and talk to people. You just traveled across the […]