I’ve been researching how regulated industries, specifically financial and medical, are handling the rapid growth of social communications online. Needless to say the government regulatory agencies—FINCA, NASD, FDA—are overburdened by their existing mandates, let alone trying to figure out what it means when my Aunt Patricia “likes” the Facebook page of some osteoporosis drug from Merck. While we tend to guard our financial information carefully, we as a society seem more than willing to get on message boards and tell others everything about our prostitis or hemoglobin counts.
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Regulations: Using Social Networks In Healthcare and Finance Is Hard

Why Facebook Will Disappear (and Google won’t) in the Social Internet
Image via CrunchBase Jeremiah Owyang and Charlene Li have pointed down the shadowy pathway towards the future of social computing, and not surprisingly they see Google: “Revealing Google’s Stealth Social Network Play.” Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn today look and act like first stage examples in any communications revolution–much like 19th century daguerreotypes were staged like [...]
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I'm Rohn Jay Miller, a strategic consultant and designer who works with clients to engage their customers on the Social Internet.
For the past twenty years I’ve built digital products, services and content for marketing, e-commerce, and social media. I write and speak on management, digital strategy, online influence, design thinking and social networks. And I blog for Social Media Today. I can be reached at rohnjay@rohnjaymiller.com.
AMA & Aquent Webinar: The Fabulous Collision of Search and Social
Social networks and search engines are the two primary ways we seek and browse online for information and personal connections. Google and other search engines have seen huge amounts of traffic growing from social networks and are working frantically to take advantage of this transformation.
These two massive worlds of social networks and search are colliding, and this will change the Internet forever. Click here to watch this Webinar sponsored by the American Marketing Association and Aquent.
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