YouTube: The Dental Marketing Goldmine You Might be Missing

A website alone is no longer enough to effectively market your dental practice online. If you want to reach the greatest audience and keep up with the latest digital trends, you need to be on social media. You’ve probably heard this advice before. Most likely, your mind goes to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or maybe Pinterest. … Read more

How YouTube Has Made Me A Better Hygienist

Some people look to YouTube for educational videos and others look for entertainment. When you think of YouTube, what is your first instinct? Have you ever thought that YouTube could make you a better clinician? I write articles from a place of experience and I connect with the written word on an emotional level. This … Read more

Whoa – oh – whoa – listen to the music

Bit of humour for September first – Aside from what you learn on YOU TUBE – the music is amazing!!!  Like something out of Mission Impossible………now there’s a thought, Mission Impossible V – Tom Cruise plays a super agent dentist…….  

Branding: Honour excellence not commodity

I’m in mourning at the resignation of Steve Jobs – it is the end of those who can effect change through passion. “When commentators list the most influential people of all time, Steve Jobs is usually right on top. And often Microsoft CEO Bill Gates isn’t even on the list.” Please watch this early YOUTUBE … Read more

There’s one thing I’m certain of; return I will to old Brazil

Since 1998, I have been a member of a forum called ROOTS. It has provided me with daily collegial education ever since. Like any discussion forum, there is the usual coterie of egos, flaming and silliness. But, like anything where the sum is greater than the parts, it soldiers on and daily, we learn, we … Read more

You KNEAD an iPAD……

It boggles the mind… Here are 15 reasons why your dental practice Needs an iPad: Using the KeyNote app you can show your patients powerful before and after pictures in a creative presentation. Have more than one office? Conduct a staff meeting that all of your offices can participate in by using the GoToMeeting or Webex app. Are you a … Read more

On a clear day you can see “the obvious”

The world of online “forever” just got even better. YouTube wants to help you make your own practice animations for patient education purposes. Granted it will take time, but with MacOS Lion about to launch and iMovie used by most 6 year olds to document their summer at camp, the time has come to learn … Read more

How Consumer Technology & User-Generated Content Are Changing Ed-Tech

By Audrey Watters – June 26, 2011 – from ReadWriteWeb Once you’ve read the blog posting, view both the video clips from YOUTUBE – one explains the concept, the other demonstrates it in the most incredible way possible – editor I’m at the ISTE 2011 conference this week, which purports to be the premier ed-tech conference in … Read more

More and more, the folks are gittin’ it!!!

From Dr. Bicuspid – June 14, 2011 They have social networking icons – SOBBBBBB!!!!! Heraeus Kulzer is offering free instructional videos on YouTube, including 30 clips covering a range of topics, such as impression techniques, posterior restorations, and live demonstrations of whitening procedures, as well as Heraeus products, the company announced. Read more http://www.youtube.com/user/HeraeusKulzerLLC Related … Read more

A video series!!!! I’m farklempt, talk amongst yourselves…will it float?

From PRWeb – April 27, 2011 Tri Hawk Corporation announced today the premiere of the first in a series of videos demonstrating the ability of its Talon burs to cut supposedly impenetrable materials. The 3-minute video can be viewed on the company’s website (http://www.trihawk.com). Image via CrunchBase Inspired by the YouTube sensation “Will It Blend?” … Read more

Proof – this is pudding – you’re validated

Just received this in the email moments ago……..have been looking for comments to be posted to this blog as the intention is to take the email blasts we receive from companies which invariably are posted to any number of dental blogs and reframe them as a Clinical eChronicle.  While it’s exciting to see these innovations, … Read more