You’ve certainly heard the old adage about the cobbler’s children and the state of their shoes. Well, I’m afraid those of us at Greystone.Net have been so caught up in helping clients and trying to stay current in this fast moving Internet world, that we neglected our own site for too long.
College basketball fans are sure to have heard Dick Vitale exclaim during a particularly terrific basketball game that he can’t believe he gets paid to do what he does. I had that feeling as I participated in pre-design user testing with a group of Chinese nationals.
If it’s votes for a politician, 55 percent is almost a landslide. But when a recent study by Deloitte suggested that many Americans would like to be able to email their doctors, a reporter asked me if I was surprised that it wasn’t more.
In case you missed the big news last week, Facebook announced that it has added its 200 millionth member. That’s right – Facebook Nation is now the fifth largest country in the world. If your temptation is to discredit the impact of this amazing growth on healthcare by assuming that these new members come from the ranks of teenagers and college students, you would be making a big mistake. A majority of Facebook users are now over 35, and the fastest growing segment of Facebook users is actually women over 55. According to CNN, “There are now about 1.5 million female users older than 55 on the site — roughly a 550 percent increase over six months ago.” As a 33-yr old who has recently received friend requests from my mother and several of her friends, I can personally attest that the AARP-ization of Facebook is for real.