Thanks For The Memories
 "As of June 7, 2013, I will no longer post anything on social media including twitter, facebook, and blog posts, including the suspension of the Family Medicine Rocks Website and Podcast - Indefinitely - as I sort out the next step in my social media life..."This announcement was made on today's podcast which was Family Medicine Rocks Podcast 307 entitled, "Social Media Soul Searching." You can listen to the entire audio podcast in the player above, or download here.It has definitely been a long week for me as I celebrated my seventh year of being in social media with my initial blog starting in June 2006. I encourag...
Source: Doctor Anonymous - June 6, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Mike Sevilla Source Type: blogs

Thanks For The Memories
 "As of June 7, 2013, I will no longer post anything on social media including twitter, facebook, and blog posts, including the suspension of the Family Medicine Rocks Website and Podcast - Indefinitely - as I sort out the next step in my social media life..." This announcement was made on today's podcast which was Family Medicine Rocks Podcast 307 entitled, "Social Media Soul Searching." You can listen to the entire audio podcast in the player above, or download here.It has definitely been a long week for me as I celebrated my seventh year of being in social media with my initial blog starting in June 2006. I encoura...
Source: Doctor Anonymous - June 6, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Mike Sevilla Source Type: blogs

Social Media Soul Searching
Hope you can join me for the live podcast today, June 6, 2013 at Noon Eastern Daylight Time for Family Medicine Rocks Podcast Episode 307 for a show entitled, "Social Media Soul Searching."Based on the feedback I have received already from this week's posts, this will probably be the most anticipated podcast in a long time. I have been doing some social media soul searching this week, and sometimes have written posts that are out of character, even for me. This month is my seventh anniversary of having a blog, and earlier this week, I shared what I thought was the worst and what was the best about Health Care Social M...
Source: Doctor Anonymous - June 6, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Mike Sevilla Source Type: blogs

The Race For Relevancy
This is part three in a series during this blogging anniversary week for me. In yesterday's post, I talked about what I thought were the best and the worst about health care social media in my seven years being online. In this post, I start looking at the future as I have reached another crossroads in my social media journey.Why did you start doing social media in the first place? And, more importantly, why do you continue now? Are they the same reason? The reason I ask is that I've seen a lot of people (especially social media superstars) who started out for very noble reasons, get internet famous, and then kind of lose t...
Source: Doctor Anonymous - June 5, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Mike Sevilla Source Type: blogs

Reflections From Seven Years Online
It's blogging anniversary week here at Family Medicine Rocks, and as I was saying in yesterday's post, I've been reflective about where I have been in the social media world, and where I am at right now. What follows below are some things I consider the Worst and the Best about Health Care Social Media:What's with all the yelling? I've observed that through the years social media in the health care space has become more and more people yelling, and less and less people listening. What's funny (and sad) is that people try to champion the "breaking down of silos" and the bring together of different social media communit...
Source: Doctor Anonymous - June 4, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Authors: Mike Sevilla Source Type: blogs