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		<title>A Buzzword With Staying Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past September marked the five year anniversary of receiving my MBA. At a recent informal get-together to celebrate the occasion, it was a pleasure renewing acquaintances with former classmates and discussing the various paths we have taken. What a wild ride it has been! Career changes, relocations, layoffs, promotions – you name it. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Outlook for Hospital Web Budgets (aka, “the Chicken Tastes like Chicken&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Benchmarking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask any market researcher if they have some examples of funny things people have said on surveys, and then stand back and watch what happens. I am willing to bet that you will have to stop him or her after a few minutes. Do not be surprised at any excessive exuberance, as we research geeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Analytics Reporting Remains a Challenge for Healthcare Marketers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of our recent research on internal reporting of external Web analytics data are in, and have been sent to all who participated in the study.  According to the 40 organizations who participated in the research, it is clear that this is an area where many continue to struggle.  Here are some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New metrics confirm old ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we went live with two new areas in our Greystone.Net Benchmarking database:   traffic from referring sites, and mobile traffic. Both areas were added based on feedback from participants. After I had a chance to review the preliminary data, two interesting findings jumped out: 1) Mobile traffic to hospital Web sites continues to increase. Roughly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital Intranets: Can’t we all just get along?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The results of Greystone.Net’s recent research on intranets in hospitals and health systems are in. Thanks to all who participated! We received responses from nearly half (46%) of our 125-member panel of healthcare marketers. All respondents who completed the survey have received a complete copy of the results. Several main conclusions stood out: 1) Overall, intranets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Apologies Necessary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good internal reporting of Web data should document successes, illuminate failures, and serve as a key component in evaluating overall strategy. Yet for many healthcare Web marketers, the challenge of producing quality reports has proven to be extremely elusive and frustrating. In my experience, most organizations do not go much further than tracking basic Web analytics metrics like page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Watching Your Keywords?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.greystoneblog.net/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I don’t really pay attention to our top search terms,” says one of my customers, a marketing analyst at a prestigious academic medical center. “They are mostly just a variation of our hospital’s name.” For a lot of analysts at hospitals and health systems, especially those cursed with having an easily misspelled name, I can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Results of recent study on Web budgets</title>
		<link>http://www.greystoneblog.net/results-of-recent-study-on-web-budgets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greystone is pleased to announce the results of our recent survey on hospital/ health system Web budgets. We sent the survey invitation to more than 100 healthcare marketers, and received responses from 65. (please note:  Greystone’s research panel is made up of hospitals or health care systems with at least one FTE dedicated to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you compete using Compete?</title>
		<link>http://www.greystoneblog.net/can-you-compete-using-compete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have recently received inquiries  from several hospital or health systems Webmasters who want to know our opinion about Web sites like Alexa, Compete.com, and Quantcast.com. These  “third party web data providers” use proprietary algorithms to estimate the number of visitors on any Web site, and have become a major resource for many Web marketers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curling for Social Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Roberts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last week and a half during the Vancouver Olympics, several of my colleagues here at Greystone and I have been held hostage during our lunch hour watching the unique and exciting sport of curling. If you’ve never watched curling, the sport is very similar to shuffleboard on ice, but with a few interesting [...]]]></description>
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