Drug reference guide.

I was not particular about taking an appointment with a specialist doctor as I know my ailment was a minor and a quick checkup will suffice.

Even then, I had to seek an appointment as the only hospital nearby is a posh and high end one. I was punctual for my appointment but which doctor keeps it up? Of course, I took it in my stride and awaited my turn.

Other patients who were sitting next to me were talking about a special mobile phone that the doctor is using as a drug reference guide. It is a software developed by Epocrates and is now used by over 500,000 health care professionals.

Yes, I too remember reading about it online. With the Epocrates’ drug guide loaded on their PDA or smartphone clinicians can immediately access the information needed to make prescribing decisions – such as drug dosing, side effects and health plan coverage.

“This announcement was paid for by Epocrates”.

What you can do in Social Authority?

Social Authority is silently moving up the scale that measures the popularity and usefulness of social marketing.

Every social community site including the giant (is it still a giant?) announce them to be a place for sharing photos, videos and what not. But the moment a social media site comes online, a few thousand bloggers and webmasters become members and the statistics is proudly displayed in their sites.

Because, every one wants visitors and social community sites are considered the most effective medium to get your blogs/websites across thousands from many nations. It is highly convenient media to market self with no money to advertise.

I have recently joined Social Authority, which can also be used to promote yourself and this is how it is done:

You clicked on the link and saw my profile page in social authority.

You have seen the images of my friends which are hyperlinked to their profiles. You can add them as your friend, add their friends to your list of friends and so on. Your contact grows to literally thousands in a matter of days.

You can send messages to your friends all at once or individually. Well, you can add links to your online presence in your message. Here is my special friend’s profile-Chris Lang. http://socialauthority.ning.com/profile/ChrisLang

You can invite more friends if you know their email ids. They become members and they invite their friends. Well, isn’t that how Orkut or MySpace has grown?

Then, there are groups you can join and what you see on my page is the names of the groups that I have joined, the number of members in each group. Groups are the best place to ask questions and answer others’ questions showing your knowledge.

You can start a discussion (your profile is linked through your image) on anything that is related to the topic of the group; include links to your websites and blogs. You can reply to discussions and follow them too through daily email digest.

In my profile page, the next thing you see on the left sidebar, the titles of the discussion that I have started and all are hyperlinked to the actual thread. Viewers of your profile are impressed by your frequency of activity and the number of replies you get.

Next shows my blog’s last five posts that is displayed here via its feed. You can configure it show the titles only, change the feed URL daily if you have more blogs/websites.

The center part of my page displays all my recent activities like who I have added as my friend, who has made a comment on my profile, what blog post I have made (yes, you can write a blog post or copy yours made elsewhere). As the displays increase, you can remove some of them.

Even this page is given a RSS URL by social authority. Isn’t that very thoughtful?

Then, my profile is displayed as I have edited/configured as follows:

Social Status: Intermediate Social Marketer

About Me: I am a Maths lecturer in India. I blog for fun and money. My life slogan: Pass it on; Share.

Website: http://theshelters.com

Blog: http://theshelters.net

So, you are again an opportunity to show your links.

After this part, you can your choice of photos and videos. Mine is blank because I have nothing of my own creativity.

The last part displays my blog posts’ synopsis with a link to full read.

At the top men, you can see the members of Social Authority, find out various forums and groups. You can customize your page’s appearance, edit your preferences etc.

Have I left out anything?

Listen to Chris on secrets of social bookmarking.

Sometimes (I mean rarely), the comments for my blog posts turn out to be meaningful and lead me to gain further knowledge in Internet marketing.

I was first terribly impressed with Chris Lang's knowledge about social bookmarking and hence introduced him to you in a small way through my blog post, "Think again before submitting .."
I would request you to read the comments that pos received so far and you will know more about Chris Lang.

He goes like this: "So social bookmarking if done wrong can actually hurt you." This will awaken many of us who are just dumping links on social bookmarks hoping to get backlinks.

I for one doing just that-dumping and hoping to get readers and backlinks. I think the time has come to buy his e-book on "social marketing".

Feedback on Acnexus.

The last time I blogged about my embarrassment due to pimples and the various acne treatments that I tried before using Acnexus, the blog post received several comments and a couple of them were even sympathetic.

I didn’t know that I am not alone with this womanly issue at my age. I wanted to share my feedback with my blog readers about the effectiveness of Acnexus (how do you pronounce it?)

Not only the acne disappeared in 5 days but it didn’t recur since then. It must have been over 60 days since I last used Acnexus. I am facing my students with confidence now.

No wonder the product is the most used in the world for acne removal.

Embed Documents in your Blog with DocsToc

An interesting announcement drew my attention today. File hosting service Docstoc (http://www.docstoc.com/) is released a nice alternative solution for sending large attachments to friends, family, and co-workers. A small application, called OneClick (http://www.docstoc.com/oneclick), installed on your computer enables a right-click contextual menu, allowing easily send a file located on your hard drive either publicly or securely to your online free storage. Once the file’s been transferred, you will get a link to the Docstoc-hosted document inserted into a new e-mail message that your recipient can open and read.

Sounds interesting already? When I checked the related site, I found that it provides an interesting solution for the blog owners as well for sharing documents in several popular formats (.doc, .pdf, .xls, .ppt) with the blog readers. Embedding the document in the blog or Web Site is easy as ABC. The entire process consists from five steps:

1. Upload your document to Docstoc Web Site, or find a document already residing in your Docstoc account, or any other public accounts. You can even upload document anonymously, if you do not feel like register or login.
2. Get to the page where the document is uploaded.
3. Find the embed code on the right from the document display page and copy the code inside the box in full.
4. Change the embedded object settings if needed (for example, box display box dimensions).
5. Embed the code on your blog or Web Site.

Embed Documents in your Blog with DocsToc

Sell your blog content to Oronjo!

I received an email from a company called Oronjo today offering an opportunity to sell my blog's content, pictures, music to their clients.

The whole concept is absolutely new and also it is very easy-I mean the process is easy.

Advantages:
No need to submit your blog for approval
So no Google PR eligibility
Offer to sell any content
Offer to sell whole or part of blog article
Free to join
WP plugin offered.

Disadvantage:
Their suggested price per article is very low but you can set your own price.

I browsed through the web site completely and found it difficult to understand initially. But when I started the registration, activation and setting up the offer to sell, everything came to light.

I still have some doubts o be clarified and asked them my questions and awaiting their answer.

Try it and spread the word please.

XFX GeForce 8800 GT graphics card.

Every time, when a new video game device comes on the market, I have this irrepressible urge to buy it. My husband accuses me of having a false sense of requirement.

He pointed out when I upgraded my PC with a DVD writer and asked me when I last used the CD writer. I realized that I never used it so far. “So why do you want a DVD writer now which you will never use?”-he asked.

But somehow I have always managed to shut him up and go about buying what I wanted.

When I wanted to buy another set of flash video games, my son informed that I need to buy one of the latest video cards in order to view the high resolution graphics of the latest video games.

I carefully avoided the glare from my husband and made a secret pact with my son to upgrade my PC with XFX SLI Ready GeForce 8800 graphics card.