Month: September 2013

Tracking and Organizing Your Social Media with Bitly

Tracking and Organizing Your Social Media with Bitly

In this business you need to keep up with available and emerging technologies, but the trick to staying productive is to pick and choose the tools in which to invest your time. The tools I choose typically have some competitive advantage over other tools in the area of efficiency–there simply isn’t enough time in the day to explore inefficient tools in the hope that there is some hidden benefit as yet unexplored that will change the calculus of efficient time management. But this article makes me want to re-consider Bitly, a tool I have used solely to shorten links. It would seem I’m missing out on some potentially interesting Bitly tools. Analytics for links across multiple sites and media is just one benefit of Bitly, and this article explores other Bitly tools of which many are unaware.

Happy exploring!

Choosing the Right Study Section

Many researchers are unaware that they can choose a study section for their investigator-initiated application in some instances. This is not an option for every agency and foundation, but it is for the NIH, for example. In fact, any researcher applying to the NIH who does not spend some quality time researching the study section listings and other abundant materials available to applicants at the Web site for the NIH’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is missing a strategic opportunity.  Continue reading “Choosing the Right Study Section”

A Great Resource for Biomedical Research Grant Proposal Writers

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the utility of using field-specific models of effective communication when expanding into a new area, I thought I would offer more examples. Yesterday’s example was specific to patient-centered engagement and research, but today I thought I would share the resource I suggest to the biomedical research proposal writers in my training sessions. For these writers, many of whom are research faculty and fellows, the sample applications offered by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) provide a wonderful resource. Continue reading “A Great Resource for Biomedical Research Grant Proposal Writers”

Shifting to Writing for the Emerging Patient-Centered Research Paradigm

For those of you who are interested in patient-centered research, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has released a report that may be of interest to you: Partnering with Patients to Drive Shared Decisions, Better Value, and Care Improvement – Workshop Proceedings. This report has an accompanying four-page meeting summary, as well, and I would recommend this summary not just for its content, but for its utility as a writing model for those strategic communicators new to the area of patient-centered research. Continue reading “Shifting to Writing for the Emerging Patient-Centered Research Paradigm”