http://blog.sidboswell.com/2009/03/08/old-school-veterinary-medicine-and-web20/ Yet another weblog clogging up the internet tubes... Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:23:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.sidboswell.com/2009/03/08/old-school-veterinary-medicine-and-web20/comment-page-1/#comment-332 Cindy Helton Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:37:41 +0000 http://blog.sidboswell.com/?p=390#comment-332 Being married to a retired veterinarian and working in social media, I have to agree with you. I do think that there is going to be a percentage of the veterinary world that "gets it" and those will be the ones that jump out to the head of the pack. Veterinarians, as a whole, are hard working, jack-of-all-trades in their practices and marketing often times gets left on the: "I'll get to it some day" list. I was recently asked some questions regarding PR by a veterinary task force which resulted in a blog post: Social Media Marketing for Veterinarians. I was amazed when I started researching that very few veterinarians are out there doing ANY social media. Seem that as a profession they pretty much have the "stick up a website and they will come" mentality. I did discovered the American Veterinary Medical Association uses social media fairly well but that was about the extent of it. My conclusion was pretty much yours- you need to be where your clients are and you need to be listening and engaging or you are going to be out dated and left behind. Being married to a retired veterinarian and working in social media, I have to agree with you. I do think that there is going to be a percentage of the veterinary world that “gets it” and those will be the ones that jump out to the head of the pack. Veterinarians, as a whole, are hard working, jack-of-all-trades in their practices and marketing often times gets left on the: “I’ll get to it some day” list. I was recently asked some questions regarding PR by a veterinary task force which resulted in a blog post: Social Media Marketing for Veterinarians. I was amazed when I started researching that very few veterinarians are out there doing ANY social media. Seem that as a profession they pretty much have the “stick up a website and they will come” mentality. I did discovered the American Veterinary Medical Association uses social media fairly well but that was about the extent of it. My conclusion was pretty much yours- you need to be where your clients are and you need to be listening and engaging or you are going to be out dated and left behind.

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