Online Consultations: Get on the train or get run over by it!

Its only been 30 days since we last pounded the table about "now-generation" technology that delivers HDMI quality, live video consultations via the Internet.

In point of fact, we've been pounding the tables and screaming from the rafters on this very topic for more than three years.

Its only within the last year that the technology has finally evolved to the point where its top quality, low maintenance and efficiently priced for any small business, no less large business than never wanted to spend mid six figures for "enterprise video teleconferencing" solutions.

Lo and behold,  the NY Times must be following this blog, because today, contributor Catherine Saint Louis is credited with a column that focuses on the rapidly growing use of this exact technology within the health care arena.

The article is objective, insightful. The article title  "Should Surgeons Meet Patients Online?" is almost irrelevant; the debate about whether plastic surgeons should be consulting on line is tantamount to asking whether barn doors should be sealed like a crypt. 
The fact is, the genie is out of the bottle. 

And the technology that powers the technology that was once only imagined by The Jetsons is easily procured. We've promoted our friends at Montreal-based LCN Technologies on several occasions, as we think they've got the best for less..We've also tripped over a few other vendors...

Now all you need to do is research the questions that need to be asked of those vendors, and compare their answers and offerings.  

Opining About Twitter:

The NY Times' David Carr opines today that he's convinced Twitter will not only endure, but expand into every tiny intellectual crevice known to modern man.

We've talked, and even "tweeted" about this topic in the past. We've pointed out that a continuously growing universe of Branders, Marketers, and a slew of corporate communication gurus believe that Twitter is as important today as having a website was ten years ago.

Fifteen years ago, this pundit insisted to his clients and prospective clients, that if you were a business, and you didn't have a website, even a rudimentary single page that merely displayed who you were, then you really weren't in business. And you probably wouldn't stay in business for very long.

OK, a bit severe of a message perhaps, but pretty prescient nonetheless. 
In the course of celebrating this past Thankgiving, we opined about the benefits and usefulness of Twitting.  

And, in today's NYT, David Carr takes his own stab at it. Don't be shy--this is a topic that anybody should chime in about--so we invite you to post your own opinion!