Ignore an obvious trend at your peril!!!

Copy genius – it reads faster and in this sound byte era enacts greater impact than “if I see further, it’s because I stand on the shoulders of giants.”  A few years back, it became apparent to those of us geeky enough to pay attention to the tech world, that “cloud computing“, mobile information and learning, and EDU-TAINMENT were going to be the sine qua non of the dental industry and the dental profession. iPHONES may be superceded by ANDROID units, but when iPHONES first came out,anyone familiar with APPLE and Airport et al,knew that in time, the iPHONE would be a router for your laptop and indeed, that is the way of the world. The one OBVIOUS facet of APPLE’s return to prominence was simplicity and ease of usage, and when MOBILE ME was in it’s infancy, it became increasingly apparent that integration of all the hardware in a platform was the future. In time business would understand that THE POWER OF WORDS would be superceded or at least augmented and exponentiated by the MANNER OF PRESENTATION.  Read below and then consider if what your practice needs is a new website or a blog with push technology or a Facebook page or a link of all your clients to a Twitter account. Doesn’t matter what you know how to do if your client base has no idea that the service is available.  Don’t put it on a bus, or a bus 

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stop, pickup truck or in the Toronto Star, that’s inelegant…..do it with style, make your client base part of your family. It’s simply an iteration of newsletters with far greater immediacy and relevance and if your family of clients like you as they should, they make it go viral.

And if the vendors and sales representatives in the dental industry think this is a load of hooey – I’d suggest they >>read this<< and remember, that this applies to the next generation of dentists and their client base. You can’t sell digital innovation with decades old technology and print media that looks like it was done on a Gestetner machine.

Determined to further Google’s top spot in the tech industry, returning CEO Larry Page has begun to restructure the company, and add financial incentives to employees to create a winning social media strategy.

Larry Page (Google CEO)

As Larry Page regained the reins of power at Google in recent days, the once-again CEO unleashed a swarm of changes and demands of the company in an attempt to reinvigorate innovation at the Internet giant. First order of business: Get social media right.

In a confidential memo sent out to all Google employees on Friday, Page explains that success in the “social” sphere is necessary for Google to compete, Business Insider reports. To help ensure the proper level of motivation, Page altered the company’s compensation policy in such a way that up to 25 percent of employee bonuses is now directly linked to how well Google does with social media in 2011.

Even employees not directly involved with the company’s social media strategy and products are expected to play their part, Page says. All employees are now expected to test new social products, and give feedback to the development teams.

“This is a joint effort so it’s important that we all get behind it,” Page writes in the memo. Employees are also now expected to hock Google’s latest social creations on their friends and family. “When we release products, try them and encourage your family and friends to do the same.”

Unfortunately for everyone involved, Google isn’t exactly known for its stellar performance in the social realm. In fact, it has so far stumbled at every attempt to step into the social market in a significant way that truly connects with users.

Just last week, Google launched its latest social product, dubbed Google +1. The service functions similarly to Facebook’s “like” button by allowing users to recommend links to people they know. Whether or not +1 will be the first move in the right direction for Google’s strategy remains to be seen.

In addition to spelling out the company’s new social media goals, Page began his tenure this week with a sweeping overhaul of the company’s management structure, reports the Los Angeles Times. The reorganization included the promotion of six executives to the level of senior vice president, as well as the resignation of SVP of product management Jonathan Rosenberg.

Page also looked to the success of Google’s Android and YouTube departments — both of which have near autonomy at the company — as a blueprint for how to restructure the company to cut down on bureaucracy and further fuel ingenuity and innovation.

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