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Health and Wellness Social Media Tips

Podcast: Cooking Safety Tips

As you begin your Thanksgiving cooking preparations follow these Everyday EMS and Holiday cooking tips from Bill Delaney of Montgomery County Fire Rescue. Bill is the Social Media public information officer and program manager for community safety for MCFRS. You can follow him on Twitter or visit the MCFRS blog. //

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Twitter Goodies: Applications, Widgets, and Buttons

If you are using Twitter this screencast shows how to add a Twitter “follow me” button to a page, post, widget, or sidebar. Twitter has a set of buttons available as a link from the Twitter Goodies page. View this screencast for a quick demonstration on how I added the Twitter button to a post […]

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Operations Social Media Tips

8 Things to Tweet About

During a conversation this week – face to face – with an Everyday EMS Tip reader asked me about what he should be tweeting about. Like many EMS professionals he has established a personal social media presence and is also considering a social media strategy for an organization that he coordinates. As a regular Twitter […]

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News and Events Social Media Tips

#CoEMS: Check out the Latest Updates

#CoEMS is Twitter shorthand for the Chronicles of EMS – the reality series by and about paramedics. The pilot episode was shot last week in San Francisco. Yesterday I had a chance to talk with paramedic and filmmaker about the footage for the pilot episode. All I can say now is that what Ted, Chris […]

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News and Events

Chronicles of EMS – Reality Series by and about Paramedics

Chronicles of EMS is a reality series that takes a look at how social media and the EMS Industry are coming together to provide realtime communication, the sharing of best practices and how paramedics from around the world are able to share ideas, thoughts and dreams on how to improve our industry as whole. The […]

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News and Events

Article: Hot Products from EMS Expo

During EMS Expo product innovator and paramedic Dan White joined the EMSExpoLive.com crew for several video segments, audio podcasts, and streaming podcasts to discuss new and innovative EMS products at EMS Expo. Dan has written a great recap of the innovative EMS products that caught his attention at EMS Expo for EMS1.com. Many of the […]

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News and Events

EMS Expo Live Schedule

This week I am EMS Expo. I present twice on Wednesday (learn more at eps411.com/emsexpo2009). On Thursday and Friday I will be teaming up with Jamie Davis, Chris Montera, and Ted Setla to record audio and video podcasts for the EMSEduCast, MedicCast, EMS Garage and EMS Leadership. This is the schedule of when we will […]

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News and Events

EMS2.0 – a movement for EMS Professionals

My friends HappyMedic, CKEMTP, and Timothy Clemans have started a movement they called EMS2.0 which started with a series of blog posts. EMS2.0 now has a Google Group, a set of goals, and core principles. You can learn more and join the EMS 2.o Google Group. As Everyday EMS Tips readers know I am a […]

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Social Media Tips

Finding Work with Social Media

In 2009 I have gone all in with social media. The connections I have made have led to a podcast (EMSEduCast.com), a new live online EMS education training program (EMSBootCamp.com), and a new website (PIOSocialMediaTraining.com). Together these projects have broadened my audience and exponentially expanded my network. They are also becoming a small and growing […]

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Social Media Tips

Top Twitter Tools for EMS Professionals

Twitter – the microblogging or messaging tool – is supported by a plethora of third party applications. Sure you can tweet from twitter.com, but it is nearly impossible to read posts from your growing list of followers on the website. If you want to share links, photos, and videos I consider these twitter applications to […]