HSMAI-South Florida Blog Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary

Amazing to think that’s it’s been only two years since “Scoop”, our Chapter’s blog began. Back in September 2007, when I started writing, we were in the early years of social media.

How time flies when you’re having fun! Time and technology have indeed moved fast. And now with our Chapter’s Twitter account, Linked-in group, and Facebook fan page, we’re keeping pace.

Our Blog was our Chapter’s first entrée, however, into interactive media. We were ahead of most other chapters with our website, as well. (Thank you Stacie Faulds.) We’re proud to say that it also was a contributing factor to our Chapter’s award winning status at national’s 2009 Leadership Conference.

In the early months of the Blog, we covered a wide variety of topics. Our “Table of Eight” which used to be a featured column in our Chapter’s printed quarterly newsletters, became just one of the many articles in our Blog. Our philosophy then (and still) was to maintain a comfortable, chatty style; to be educational and informative, but still enjoyable; to be of interest and relevant to our local readers and Chapter members.

This year we added something new – our linking capability. (Thank you Sheryl Cattell.) Our reach and readership has been expanded as our Blog also appears not only on our website (hsmaisouthflorida.org then click on Blog), but is repeated (“picked up”) in our other social media outlets. Since we didn’t originally have these links, you may have missed some of our early articles. In the next few weeks, I’ll be re-posting a selection of them.

Our readers still are a bit shy. Most prefer to email me directly with their questions and contributions rather than post comments on the site. Whichever method you prefer, we invite you to scroll back to some of those previously posted items, read, subscribe, and give us your input.

Best, Julie Wernick, HSMAInsider

P.S. Hope you can join us for our Social Media Panel, Wednesday, October 28th in Ft. Myers.