In the first post of this series I explained how I recently went to the Mayo-Ragan Healthcare and Social Media Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. In continuing on, here are some of my other takeaways from that conference:

1. Blogs: Wonder how Mayo finds out from their patients all those great experiences that they blog about on their Sharing blog? They use a great technique which is to actual give patients that visit physicians for appointments a special card that invites them to visit the blog and contact them to share their story.
2. Blogs: Another great tip from Mayo. Setup a blog that is set to private. Keep it ready to go live in case an emergency happens.
   
3. Social Media: Do you find yourself working for a company (like so many of us) that blocks social media sites from its employees? Visit StopBlocking.org to learn more about this and start getting the ammo you need to combat your company's restrictive policies.
4. Resources: Two more tools out there for you to share documents with others....Slideshare.net for powerpoints and Scribd.com for documents.
5. Resources: Try using Audible.com for audiobooks. There's lots out there to learn and listening instead of reading really helps with time management.
6. Resources: Use DropBox for free online storage of your video or audio files. Under 2 GB is free on this site.
   
7. Podcasts: For iPhone users only...try using Audioboo and iTalk. Audioboo is free and iTalk has a free and fee version. The speaker on the iPhone is great and so easy to use with these apps.
8. YouTube: Check out the When I Grow Up video from Kaiser Permanente. Great video, this had the room cheering.
9. Social Networks: Kaiser Permanente showed off their amazing internal social network that has been very well received. They used Jive Software to create this.