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World’s first surgery updated on twitter

Tibi Puiu — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:47:26 +0000

We live in very interesting times, people. Times in which the world becomes smaller and smaller as the time elapses, a world in which we become ever closer to one another, and social media is playing an ever bigger role.

I can only rejoice as I see social media getting a mainstream use and finally becoming what’s intended to be in the first place – a medium for conversations, community building, contribuitons and networking.

Recently, something quite remarkable came to my ears. Seems like a team of highly open minded surgeons from the Henry Ford Hospital used social media, particularly the twitter micro-blogging channel, to live cast the surgery performed on a 60 year old man, suffering from kidney cancer. Updates were regularly sent via twitter during the procedure, such that the patient’s relatives and friends may be up date to his current state. Dr. Rajesh Laungani, Twittered the updates from a laptop in the operating room (OR) while the surgeon, Dr. Craig Rogers, directed the surgery.

Here’s some twit excerpts, from Dr. Craig’s twitter account:

# Dr. Rogers places a laparscopic sponge on the defect created by the tumor and holds pressure for a few minutes#hfhor 8:50 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# Dr. Rogers is using suture to stop any residual bleeding#hfhor 8:44 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# The kidney is now completely perfused and no longer on clamp#hfhor 8:43 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# Stacey Dusik is providing superb surgical scub assistance during this crucial portion of the case#hfhor 8:42 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# Dr. Sameer Siddiqui has provided excellenct assistance during this cruicial portion of the partial nephrectomy.#hfhor 8:41 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# After the clamps are removed there may be some residual bleeding that can be controlled with suture#hfhor 8:39 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# Bulldog clamps are now being removed from the kidney blood vessels.#hfhor 8:35 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# 28 minutes – tumor is excised, bleeding is controlled, we are about to come off clamp#hfhor 8:34 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

# the capsule of the kidney is cinched closed over the bolsters and the floseal using Weck clips#hfhor 8:32 AM Feb 9th from TweetDeck

“With the way medicine is going, patients are looking for more information about procedures going on. This kind of lets them know our world, what we go through in the OR and what kind of new technology we’re using.” said Laungani.

Hey and if you feel that’s not enough, Dr. Craig and Dr. Rajesh also taped the procedure and broadcasted it on YouTube! Social media at its best!

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We’re hiring bloggers !

Tibi Puiu — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:29:37 +0000

As each day passes, we’re becoming ever stronger and confident in our own resources. Alas, work and resposability has begun to stack and now we’re in need of qualified help in the blogging department.

What we’re looking for are bloggers that can write for ZME Tech or/and ZME Travel. The perfect candidate should have:

excellent use of English.
an eye for technicalities (especially for ZME Tech)
knowledge concerning link bait (lists, features, virals etc.)
knowledge regarding social media and, preferably, be an user.
minimal SEO skills.
previous experience with WordPress and blogs.

General job requirements include:

2-3 posts a day, during the weekdays (monday to friday), as well as 1 feature post per week (link bait).

Benefits:

Only a few hours a week of work. You could possibly gain a decent amount of money for just 4-5 worth of work per week.
Work from home.
Decent salary pack.

All those interested, please send out an e-mail to tibipuiu@gmail.com.

b5media rolls out a new design

Tibi Puiu — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:37:33 +0000

Our colleagues from b5media just rolled out a new design these past few days. The fact that they’re one of the biggest blog networks out there, serving over 20 million page views a month, is extremely impressive, and this had to be releved in the blog network’s main page as well. An excellent design was needed, and it has been delivered.

The old design was simple and subtle, that did it’s job pretty well. The new one is sophisticated, aesthetic and very artsy like. Actually, it very resembles a professional conventional ad/marketing agency, which tells a lot about how blog networks or blogs in general have been developing recently. Great stuff, guys! Keep up the good work.

Kind regards,
ZME Media

Greetings…

Tibi Puiu — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:27 +0000

And welcome to the ZME Media official blog. This will be the gathering place of various collective thoughts, as well as news and updates from our blog network or various web services. But first, as a fitting blog debut post, it’s only fair to start with a small introduction in the world of ZME.

ZME Media first started out as a small blog network when it was founded by Tibi Puiu and Andrei Mihai back in May, 2007. Since then, ZME Media hasn’t only developed into a major player in the blogosphere, but has also expanded it’s reach into fiends as SEO, usability/findabilty, social media and blogging consulting, as well as more technical areas like webdesign and development, after hiring a team of highly talented programmers.

What the future will hold for us is still unclear, what’s certain, however, is that we’ll do our best to make our services 100% sustainable and further improve our work’s quality. Thank you for your constant support and wish us luck in the future!