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Nexxt Up/ISH It or Diss It: Blair Giles @Baby_Blair - Still got 5
As the new generation of hip-hop shape today's music industry, Blair Giles prepares to take his place amongst the current freshman class of artists. Born in Baltimore; Giles is ready to be in the forefront after working behind the scenes for just a few years.
Giles dropped off his latest recording which is his own personal take on the 1995 track released by Luniz. "5 on it" is a classic record that is easily recognized when that beat is dropped. Remixes, after samples after samples has this song been through and now Blair Giles is here to give you his version; Letting you know that nothings changed at all, he Still Got 5.
Check Out This New Young Hip-Hop Star & Let Us Know What You Think? ISH It or Diss It
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Music ISH: Trey Songz -Never Again [Video]
Music ISH: RICK ROSS – 'CLIQUE (FREESTYLE)'
Maybach Music boss Rick Ross bigs up his own clique ("Hottest ni**as in the game") in the video for his remix to G.O.O.D. Music's "Clique," which can be found on his latest mixtape The Black Bar Mitzvah. Rozay travels from city to city by tour bus and private jet on his "MMG Tour" with Meek Mill and Wale. The video ends with him hitting the stage at WGCI's Big Jam in Chicago with Usher to perform "Touch'N You" and "Lemme See."
Music ISH: FUTURE F/ KELLY ROWLAND – 'NEVA END (REMIX)'
MUSIC ISH: THE GAME F/ WALE – 'STRIPPER' + THE GAME F/ BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY – 'CELEBRATION (REMIX)'[Video]
TV ISH: Rihanna Performs 'Diamonds' On 'The X Factor UK'
Rihanna performs her smash hit "Diamonds" on X-Factor UK. Diamonds became her 12th #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100, which ties Rihanna with Madonna. Mariah Carey still sit comfortably number one by having an impressive 18 #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. But check out RiRI smoking performance..
ish Pod: Joe Budden 'A Loose Quarter' [Mixtape Download]
Friday, November 23, 2012
Celebrity ISH: Rick Ross Ft. French Montana "All Birds" Official Video
Self Made Vol. 2 album. Last week, we watched the visual for Omarion and Wale's standout "M.I.A." This week, MMG returns with another fan-favorite in "All Birds" with French Montana. The Spiff TV-directed clip features neon laser beams, plenty of money, and the obligatory but always entertaning cameo from Birdman.
Fashion ISH: Cynthia Rowley's New Flask Bangle [Must Have]
Music ISH: @JoJoistheway (JoJo) 'We Get By' [Listen Now]
Listen to JoJo's "We Get By" after the jump.
Fashion ISH: Alicia Keys Releases Second Reebok Collection
Instagram for us. But somehow, she's still found the time to gift us with two brand new killer collections for Reebok Classics. Just in time for Christmas? Uh, sorry Santa, but we want Alicia to bring us our pressies this year. Check out these sweet shoes, and we have a feeling you'll want her coming down your chimney, too.
ISH It or Diss It: Wiz Khalifa Feat. Cam'Ron "The Bluff"
Music ISH: @NickiMinaj 'Freedom' Official Video
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Music ISH: RIHANNA F/ CHRIS BROWN – 'NOBODY'S BUSINESS'
Fashion ISH: Christian Louboutin 2013 Spring Shoe Collection
One of the must-have brands of every true fashionsta, Christian Louboutin, proved once again that there's nothing that can stop it from conquering the world with the help of its latest collection. The brand's spring 2013 shoe collection makes it clearer than ever that these dreamy "red bottoms" will never cease to amaze its fans as the designer seems to have 'armed' himself up with a bottomless bag of ideas. Apparently, after a fall 2012 season in which dark, cool tones dominated the fashion scene, the designer chose to spice things up and infuse a bit of color in his designs. Check out his latest collection — after the click
TV ISH: Miguel performs 'Do You…' on Jimmy Fallon [VIDEO]
ish Pod: RIHANNA F/ KANYE WEST – 'DIAMONDS (REMIX)'
Bad Girl RiRi calls on her big brother Kanye to assist her on the Remix of her new single 'Diamonds.' I personally like Mr. West on the remix, but I would have put his bars on the end of the song! Diamonds is the current first single off Rihanna's 7th album Unapologetic, and it #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Does this remix have what it take to make this single go #1
Fashion ISH: Chanel Hula Hoop Bag Set To Hit Shelves
Monday, November 19, 2012
The original hula hoop bag that walked the runway had the fashion world abuzz for weeks. While there can be know doubt that this bag qualifies as avant garde there was a question of practicality. However a brand such as Chanel cannot survive on mere eccentricity; it has to translate into commercial sales, which the miniature hula hoop bag should be able to do. While you can no longer hula hoop the same way as with the runway bag it will still remain 2 feet in diameter ensuring that the bag will be the must have fashion accessory for 2013. This little slice of childhood will be available at Chanel retailers in spring 2013 for $2,400.
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Music ISH: AMA Performances [Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj]
(See for yourself)
We loved Bieb's perfromance it was cute and he sapped (sing and rapped) Big Sean's verse to 'As Long As You Love Me'... then performed 'Beauty & A Beat'...Check it out and other performances from the night!
Nicki Minaj looked like a hip-hop snow bunny during her solo performance of 'Freedom' at the 2012 American Music Awards on Sunday (Nov. 18). Wearing a pink-colored wig, white fur coat, matching booty shorts and white boots, the Harajuku Barbie brought a winter wonderland to the AMAs.
Taylor Swift performed her fan favorite 'Red' track, 'I Knew You Were Trouble,' live for the first time at the 2012 American Music Awards. How'd she fare?
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Music ISH: 2012 American Music Awards Winners
Check out this list of the 2012 American Music Awards winners and keep checking back throughout the show to see which artist ends up winning big!
2012 American Music Awards Winners:
Artist of the Year
Justin Bieber — WINNER!
Maroon 5
Katy Perry
New Artist of the Year
J. Cole
Carly Rae Jepsen — WINNER!
One Direction
Favorite Male Artist – Pop/Rock
Justin Bieber — WINNER!
Flo Rida
Favorite Female Artist – Pop/Rock
Kelly Clarkson
Nicki Minaj
Katy Perry — WINNER!
Favorite Band, Duo or Group – Pop/Rock
Maroon 5 — WINNER!
One Direction
The Wanted
Favorite Album – Pop/Rock
Justin Bieber, 'Believe' — WINNER!
Maroon 5, 'Overexposed'
Nicki Minaj, 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded'
One Direction, 'Up All Night'
Favorite Artist – Rap/Hip-Hop
Nicki Minaj — WINNER!
Favorite Album – Rap/Hip-Hop
J. Cole, 'Cole World: The Sideline Story'
Drake, 'Take Care'
Nicki Minaj, 'Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded' — WINNER!
Favorite Male Artist – Soul/R&B
Chris Brown
Trey Songz
Usher — WINNER!
Favorite Female Artist – Soul/R&B
Beyoncé — WINNER!
Mary J. Blige
Favorite Album – Soul/R&B
Chris Brown, 'Fortune'
Rihanna, 'Talk That Talk'
Usher, 'Looking 4 Myself' — WINNER!
Favorite Artist – Adult Contemporary
Adele — WINNER!
Kelly Clarkson
Favorite Artist – Latin
Don Omar
Shakira — WINNER!
Favorite Artist – Electronic Dance Music (EDM)
David Guetta — WINNER!
Calvin Harris
Favorite Female Artist – Country
Miranda Lambert
Taylor Swift — WINNER!
Carrie Underwood
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Music ISH: @BigSean Pushes Back Release Date of 'Hall of Fame' Album to 2013
In his second webisode titled 'Fear,' the D-Town MC talks about his greatest fears. "Everybody is afraid of something whether you know it or not," he contemplates. "A bullet, a person, a place, heights, snakes, roaches…something."
"I always feared of not ever living the life I dreamed of or not being successful or rich," he continues revealing that he was thisclose to being dropped from Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music label.
Later in the video, we are privy to a closed-door meeting with his management team as they discuss postponing the 'Hall of Fame' album.
"I'm playing myself if I come out too early. I'ma take my time with it. My first album was not all the way where I wanted it to be," he says about his debut LP 'Finally Famous.' "The first project I put out and felt comfortable with was [my mix tape] 'Detroit.' We really did it how we wanted to do it. We shot the proper promotion. I'm not about to do this to my album. We about to do what we did with 'Detroit' ten times better."
We can understand Sean's fear of dropping a rushed project into the marketplace without proper promotions, so delaying the album's release is a good thing. In the meantime, we encourage fans to check out Big Sean's latest mixtape 'Detroit' until he releases his long-awaited second album next year.
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Have there been many women inventors?
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Deanne Bell, engineer and co-host of PBS's "Design Squad," talks about inspiring inventive creativity in young people, especially girls.
"Prototype Online: Inventive Voices" is a production of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center. Written and hosted by Paul Rosenthal. Audio production by Benjamin Bloom. Theme music by Will Eastman. Art Molella, executive producer. Deanne Bell was originally interviewed on 3 May 2007 by Paul Rosenthal; podcast released 5 June 2007.
Paul Rosenthal: From the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, welcome to Prototype Online: Inventive Voices. We're coming to you from the National Museum of American History in Washington. I'm Paul Rosenthal.
If you go to Google, and search on the phrase "Girls Engineering Careers," the results probably would not surprise you. "Why Girls Don't Consider Engineering Careers." "Guiding Women Into Engineering Careers." "Commonly Held Myths That Often Discourage Girls from Pursuing Engineering Careers." These are just some of the results that you'll find there. Here's another one. "The Ohio State University Women in Engineering Program is hosting the First Annual in Engineering Career Day for Girls." So, again, are these results surprising? Probably not, and frankly I do find it quite encouraging to see that the need to get girls and young women to consider careers in engineering has not only been identified, but there are lots of individuals and organizations who are trying to do something about it.
In fact, just for the fun of it, if you try Googling "Boys Engineering Careers, " many of the results are identical. It's about guiding women toward careers in engineering. So clearly, there is minimal need for support services for boys interested in engineering careers.
Now, if you listened to our last podcast, you would have heard from inventor and engineer Nate Ball, who is in his mid-twenties and just won the Lemelson MIT Program Student Prize for Invention. Here is Nate, at the beginning of a bright career in invention, and already he's looking at the generation that's following him by being a mentor and role model for younger students. One way he does this is through his role as co-host of the PBS program, "Design Squad."
In each episode of "Design Squad, " a group of high school students work in teams to tackle a real life engineering challenge. They confront a problem, identify possible solutions, and build prototypes to see if it works. They are limited only by their own imagination and creativity. Well, there's also a time limit, and they don't have an unlimited budget, but it's mostly their own imagination and creativity. One of the goals of the program is to change and improve the public image of engineering; and if the search results from Google show anything, that is an especially important step in getting more girls to follow that career path. Which is one of the reasons why the program's other co-host, Deanne Bell, got involved.
Deanne, who grew up in Florida, is one of those girls who managed to ignore or clear any hurdles that appeared down this particular career path. Knowing that she wanted to be creative and wanted to design, she studied mechanical engineering and architecture. This led her to a R and D job in the aerospace industry, creating optical navigation equipment, including a night vision system for helicopters. Deanne knows first hand the challenges girls face in following careers in engineering, as well as the challenges the engineering field faces in getting girls to have interest. With this new role hosting "Design Squad, " Deanne has a great platform to do something about it.
Deanne Bell: Well, I, when I was young, actually got involved in some creative problem solving competitions with a team, and I think that teamwork was really critical. I loved, after school, getting together and building solutions to these problems. In particular, we built a lot of mechanical solutions. So, when I was younger I built all these gadgets in my backyard, from a musical washing machine to a hands-free hair washing machine and a mail delivery and sorting system. They were all very whimsical machines, and it was fun just to tinker and really go through the design process. I built lots of things that didn't work, and then realized how to build things that do work. After I did that... I did that from elementary school through high school, and it kind of just sold me on the fact that I loved to design, and I liked to build things and invent.
Paul: It's funny that you're putting it as creating and building, because some of the folks that I've talked to, as well, about what got them into it is they liked to take things apart and see how they worked. It's almost like the opposite that... Do you take things apart, too? Does that...
Deanne: Oh, I take apart. Actually, some people used to make fun of me because I had a motor collection that I was very attached to. I actually took it to college with me. I had a box of motors. I used to go to the thrift store and get old broken down VCRs and old equipment, and take them apart, and salvage the motors, because who knows when you need a motor? Who knows when you need one of varying torque or speed. So, yeah. I would take things apart all the time, just to really tinker at them, and see how they work. Sometimes I put them back together, too. [laughs]
Paul: So how did you end up then, now with this TV show?
Deanne: That's actually a pretty crazy story. I was working aerospace out in California, and I decided that I wanted to go travel. I wanted... I am very passionate about learning about other cultures, and I left. I took a leave of absence to go travel in Asia for about six months. I was in the Phillippines and thought that I really want to get back into my career. I started looking, and I saw a posting online for a PBS show. They were looking for a mechanical engineering host, and I knew instantly, "That's for me." The next day I flew all the way across the planet and showed up for a first-time audition. Thankfully, they liked me; so after a month, I ended up getting signed on to be the host.
Paul: Let me ask you then, how busy does that keep you? It's a fascinating job, and I want to talk more about the role that you play now in encouraging young people to get involved in this. But, for your own personal interest in building things that you've always talked about, do you get the opportunity to still do that?
Deanne: My role as a host on the show is as a mentor, but we're hands-off in the sense that we really let the students and the participants on the show build for themselves. Because I know, and Nate, my co-host, also knows that that's critical to where we are today. That when we were younger, we built everything. We went through that design process. So our role on the show is to present the challenges, to come on and advise them on their design process, to help them take what they're aiming toward and help them refine their focus and really come up with a successful solution.
It's funny. Because we are not hands-on so much in building their devices, we end up in the back actually building our own little gadgets. In one episode, the kids were tasked to build a water pump for a water slide, to go from a pool all the way to the top of a water slide. We were like, "Well, we need to build water guns!" So, we just started cutting away at PVC and building our own water guns back in the back; and everyone on the show was like, "You guys are crazy! You're always building!" [laughs] So yeah, we had our fun building, as well.
Paul: Persistence at it is probably one of those characteristics that's not going to go away from you, just because it's the students who are building. I see that. Well, no surprise: the number of girls who are getting involved in this. I think there are so many organizations, people, and groups that are looking and trying to find ways to inspire girls, in particular, to get involved in science, engineering, technology, invention. What are the challenges that you see to that, and what are some of the possible solutions and suggestions that you could make?
Deanne: I think there's a couple of challenges. One, in general, it's just a stereotype. It's a new generation; and women are equally as capable of being inventors, and being successful inventors. Unfortunately, when we grow up, we still get that stereotype of an engineer as a guy with a pocket protector. That image is changing. To further illustrate what I'm talking about, look at media today. Look at people -- images -- that you see up on the TV, role models in science. We need to basically work to balance that so that people will get images of women in science and women inventors. I think it's also explaining to people that engineering isn't just necessarily math and science. There's a lot of creativity; there's also a lot of a human element to it. You can design machines that help Third World developing nations; you can design biomedical equipment used in the medical industry. It's not just robots. Teaching people that there's very broad applications of science--
Paul: There's artistry! There's artistry to it.
Deanne: Artistry...kinetic sculpture, functional fashion. That's a great thing that "Design Squad" does with the challenges that they have on the show. They really try to show the wide variety of applications that you can have within engineering. Even in my career: I'm an engineer and I now host a television show; that's another application of it. It's just a matter of realizing that a degree in engineering, and in science, is a problem-solving degree. The entire rest of your life you're going to be encountering problems; and if you are given the tools to be able to solve those problems, you're going to be able to succeed.
Paul: Tell me what some girls may have said to you. Some of these girls who you work with, who are younger than you, who are getting involved in some of this now, what have they said to you? What kinds of stories have you heard from them about their involvement in this now-- the fact that they're getting attracted to this field?
Deanne: I've been fairly impressed, even with my experience on "Design Squad." I think at that age, it's still an age where there isn't as much of a hindrance. If a girl wants to go into science, it's embraced and nurtured. It's more, I think, when you transition into university and industry, where it's harder to really continue through with that implementation. That's my personal opinion, at least.
I'll give an example from "Design Squad." We had one episode where it was a fashion challenge. The teams were tasked to design fashion for a runway, and it had to transform on the runway. We split the teams up into all girls and all guys for that challenge. It was very interesting to see the dynamic of the girls working together. They just communicated so well; they worked very well together as a team, very supportive, and all the ideas were open. They were just lit up at the idea that engineering and fashion could go together; they had just never really associated the two before. They were like, "This is fun! This is what I enjoy doing!" To me, just seeing that and seeing that lightbulb click on, and to realize that girls can, all of a sudden, acknowledge that engineering could be something that they want to do, is invaluable.
Paul: I'm not saying I'm not wishing for a very long and successful run for "Design Squad," but tell me what comes next for you? Where are you going to go next in your career?
Deanne: Actually, we only filmed over the summer; so over the last five months I have been working out here for a startup company. I work in software development. I'm actually more of a product tester and I work with customers. It's been a really interesting experience working in a startup environment because you're given a lot of roles, a lot of responsibility. You really get challenged for that whole problem-solving aspect of the engineering degree, because there's many problems of a variety -- a big spectrum -- to solve. So that's what I'm doing right now; I'm kind of on that venture. But the whole experience with "Design Squad" -- I guess the reason that I got involved in "Design Squad" was my experience living in Los Angeles. Seeing the need for more role models of women in the media has made me really passionate about that, and I hope to be able to be involved in the future, in whatever aspects I can, to work with youth. To work with girls, in particular, to encourage them to go into science.
Paul: That's Deanne Bell, co-host of the PBS program "Design Squad." I met up with her when she was participating in an event at the Museum of Science in Boston. That's one of the many public steps Deanne is taking to bring change to the image of engineering. If you can catch the "Design Squad" program on PBS, watch an episode. I think you'll agree that the imagery Deanne, Nate, and the program participants present about engineering show a really bright future for the field.
Thanks for listening to "Prototype Online: Inventive Voices." Brought to you from the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History. I'm Paul Rosenthal. We're anxious to hear your thoughts about this program, or any others from the Lemelson Center. Send us an email. The address is email@example.com. Learn more about us on the web at invention.smithsonian.org. We'll be back again soon with more insight into the great inventors and innovators of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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there was a science fiction series, late 60's-early 70's print, that described use of vehicles called ornithopters, described to work similar to the above described - Kirk K. Snow
Published November 26, 2013
It's a bird … it's a plane … it's a jellyfish? The latest tiny drone may not be sleek or stylish, but it's certainly a departure from the usual flying robot design.
In trying to think outside the box, researchers at New York University have come up with a drone design that mimics the movements of swimming jellyfish.
"Lots of designs kind of mimic flapping insect wings," said Leif Ristroph, an applied mathematician at New York University in New York City. But he knew from his previous research that those designs don't stay stable in flight without some help.
Insects have built-in sensors and feedback that help them stay upright, he explained.
Drones based on insect wings need the same support. But motors, sensors, and batteries add weight, which becomes problematic for people looking to design smaller and smaller drones.
"I wanted to design something that had stability without the stability-sensor needs," Ristroph explained in an interview.
He came up with a drone propelled by four wings, which the mathematician presented earlier this week at a fluid dynamics conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Instead of sticking the wings out to the side like those on an airplane, Ristroph pointed them downward and had them flap back and forth to push his robot up into the air.
From the beginning, the design had good lift capabilities, Ristroph noted. The drone also showed signs of being inherently stable: It would automatically right itself so that it was always flying up, he said, without the need for extra sensors.
But it wasn't until the applied mathematician built his drone that he realized it moved remarkably like a jellyfish. (See "5 Surprising Drone Uses [Besides Pizza Delivery].")
A Diaphanous Design
"One of the important things to keep in mind is that whether it's an insect, a bird, a fish, or a jellyfish, they're all playing by essentially the same rules in physics," said Brad Gemmell, a University of Texas, Austin, ecologist who studies how animals move through the water.
Moving through air is similar to moving through water. And regardless of an organism's shape, if it wants to propel itself along, it has to generate thrust, explained Gemmell, who was not involved in the new research.
Jellyfish move in essentially two ways. For smaller species that are a few centimeters in size, they use jet propulsion, he said. The animal contracts its umbrella-shaped bell, squeezing out water behind it and creating a doughnut-shaped ring of water called a vortex.
That vortex pushes the jellyfish forward, said Gemmell.
Larger jellyfish add a movement called rowing to their jet-propulsion capabilities. Rowing is when the loose edge of their bell flaps around, creating additional vortices that help to generate thrust.
Those loose edges almost push against the fluid like a rower pushes an oar against the water, Gemmell explained. "That's what the flying object in the video showed."
Improving the Design
Ristroph is working on improving his drone. Now it needs to be connected to a power source with a tiny wire, but he'd like to see it fly free one day.
The mathematician is also working on other unusual designs for drones. He's working on one that works like an umbrella opening and closing in order to generate lift.
"I'm personally interested in schemes that no one in nature or the engineering laboratory has thought of," Ristroph said.
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So neat!
i didnt think it would be efficient enough to work in air
love that drone :3
Can it sting?
Pretty cool!
Very interesting
wow no comments yet.
@John E. Butler Won't take them long to mount hellfire missiles on it, if that's what you mean...
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Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a marketer quite like being asked to write a blog post. Some marketers would rather wrestle with pivot tables (or grizzly bears) for days on end than write a blog post – but why?Writing doesn't have to be this painful.Writing is intimidating to a lot of people, particularly those who don't write for a living or blog on a regular basis.
The good news is that writing doesn't have to be agonizing, and almost anybody can hone their writing skills with a little discipline and a willingness to learn. In today's post, I'm going to share 16 ways you can start improving your writing skills right now.1. Brush Up on the BasicsBefore you can start writing incredible content, you'll need at least an intermediate understanding of the basic principles ... > Read more
19 Headline Writing Tips for More Clickable, Shareable Blog Posts
It's easy to let headlines take the back seat in your writing process. Headlines can wind up as a quick afterthought, but really should be treated with much more consideration. In fact, your headline is arguably more important than the article itself. After all, who cares how great your blog post is if no one even reads it?Headline writing rules have changed quite a bit since the great online migrationOut of all the folks who read your headline, only 20% will read the article copy.
Whether it's for email subject lines, blog posts, ebooks, or webinars, you need a powerful, sexy headline to make readers swoon.Modern online article headlines are tricky – they need to be SEO keyword friendly, but also should be unique and creative. The end result needs to be super clickable, irresistible... > Read more
Top 3 Business Blog Mistakes & How to Fix Them
Is your business blog tanking? Have you wasted hours upon hours creating what you thought was out-of-this world content while attempting to attract visitors and maybe even grab conversions via your business blog? Lift your somber spirit out of the rain because you have come to the right place! Blogging is not rocket-science, but many of you are missing small but crucial things that will drastically improve the readership of your business blog.
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3 Things I Learned by Writing 3 Million Words in 3 Years
My first SEO copywriting job (which is what most content marketing used to be called before "web content" was a thing) was working as a freelancer for a national British travel agency. Although the work itself amounted to little more than stuffing awkward long-tail keywords into flowery copy about tourist hotspots across the Mediterranean, it was an invaluable learning experience and set me on an exciting and rewarding career path.
Since that fateful freelance gig, I've written millions of words (literally) – most of them during the past three years. In that time, I've learned a lot about what separates the great content from the bad, how to hit deadlines on time every time, and why measuring your coffee intake in pots is a warning sign that you should probably take it easy.In tod... > Read more
3 Reasons Guest Blogging Isn't as Dead as Matt Cutts Says It Is
Matt Cutts just declared guest blogging dead:Okay, I'm calling it: if you're using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it's become a more and more spammy practice, and if you're doing a lot of guest blogging then you're hanging out with really bad company.
Well, I'm convinced.Just kidding! Guest blogging may be on Google's radar, but I wouldn't close the coffin lid just yet. Here's why.All SEO Gets Spammier. SEO Still Isn't Dead.You could substitute almost any SEO technique into this sentence, and it would be true:Over time it's become a more and more spammy practice, and if you're doing a lot of keyword targeting then you're hanging out with really bad company.Over time it's become a more and more spammy pr... > Read more
Blog SEO Tips for Non-SEOs: 3 Things Bloggers that Aren't Search Nerds Forget to Do
Here's your "duh" of the day: You don't have to be an SEO to be a good blogger. I bet 90% of search marketers read a blog or five that has nothing to do with search marketing, whether it's a cooking blog, nail art porn or Andrew Sullivan.Some of the best and most popular blogs in any given niche get high rankings and lots of links without thinking too hard about SEO.
Instead, they focus on:Great content: Popular blogs develop huge readerships primarily because the content is awesome; it's that simple. (Here's a reminder of the eight qualities that make great content great.)Great design: Almost as important as great content is great design – your business blog needs to be both attractive and usable. High-quality photographs or illustrations are a big plus.Community building:... > Read more
Overwhelmed with Blog Tips? Hack Learning with Just In Time Information
Information overload rules the Internet. Go do a Google search for any one of your favorite topics right now. How many results do you see?It's easy to get obsessed with absorbing every piece of knowledge that we can. But that doesn't help us get anything done. The more you read, the more that gets lost in the bottomless repository that is your brain (or Pinterest board, Evernote account, etc).
It's totally inefficient.Be honest, how many unsorted articles on blogging strategy do you have saved in Evernote or your bookmarking tool of choice? Instead of adding more and more links to the mountain, there's a better way to learn what you need to – with Just in Time information.What Does "Just in Time" Mean?The term Just in Time originated in business. According to Logistik, Taiichi Ohno, ... > Read more
Don't Read the Comments: 10 Logical Fallacies in the Comment Stream
There's a brilliant Twitter feed called @AvoidComments whose sole purpose is to remind us not to read comments on the Internet:This is excellent advice when it comes to newsy sites like Salon, which seems to be where repressed rage goes to die seethe indefinitely. And even Justin Bieber knows not to read the comments on YouTube: "I don't read YouTube comments because those can get you sad.
"Seriously though. I have a love-hate relationship with comment streams. The quality can vary so widely and it usually depends on what kind of atmosphere and community the blog owners cultivate. I love sites with upvoting systems that allow the best comments to rise to the top and which encourage regular commenting and conversation – see SEOmoz, Reddit, and XOJane, where I've lost hours of my li... > Read more
Blog Management for Small Businesses: The Ultimate Guide
Thousands of small business marketing blogs are launched every day. Big companies, small companies, even kitchen table companies use business blogs to get in front of new prospects and hold fast to sales-ready leads and existing customers. A small business blog can cast a wide net around target audiences afloat in various stages of buying readiness by fueling their interests, piquing their curiosity, and empowering them to make smarter decisions.
People (business buyers are still people) revisit good blogs. They also add them to their reader or subscribe to the email version of the posts. Bad blogs…well, those often fall off our radar after they fail to satisfy an information need, bomb on the entertainment factor, or skimp on quality.What makes a good blog a good blog? How can your small... > Read more
Free Blog Photos? Not So Much: Getty Images Demands Big Money from Bloggers
Have you ever used a picture from the web on your blog or website? Did you take the time to verify that you had the proper copyright to use that image?If not, you could soon be the unhappy recipient of a settlement demand letter (AKA "extortion letter") that asks for a large sum of money to pay for "damages.
"In recent years, companies like Getty Images, iStockphoto, Masterfile, Corbis, Jupiter Images, and others have become aggressive in pursuing people who infringe on an image's copyright. It doesn't matter whether you use an unlicensed image accidentally or intentionally – the consequences are the same.You can also run afoul of copyright if a web designer improperly uses an image on your site without your knowledge. You will still be held liable even if you didn't post the image.Most e... > Read more
What is Evergreen Content? Your Guide to Long-Lasting Content That Boosts SEO
If you're involved with SEO, content marketing or any kind of web marketing, you've probably heard the phrase "evergreen content" and been told that your site needs to have it. So what is evergreen marketing, and why are evergreen articles good for SEO?Today we'll be explaining the basics of evergreen articles, how to write an evergreen content piece, and why incorporating evergreen posts into your blog strategy is essential for killer content marketing.
Evergreen content definitionEvergreen content is SEO content that is continually relevant and stays "fresh" for readers.So Why is it Called "Evergreen"?The term "evergreen" sounds familiar even to the non-marketing ear because evergreen trees (usually the pine or fir variety) are often used to decorate homes at C... > Read more
Corporate Blogging for SMBs: How to Get More Employees to Contribute to Your Company Blog
Lots of small and medium-sized businesses have figured out that a corporate blog is good for business. The potential benefits of a well-run corporate blog include:Brand developmentSEO traffic and valuable linksOngoing inbound leadsBut buy-in is one thing. Actually creating and publishing new blog content on a regular basis is another.
Maintaining a regular publication schedule is a struggle for everyone, but it's especially difficult for SMBs with their smaller budgets and smaller teams. You might not have a dedicated copywriter, and if you do, that writer is probably being pulled in multiple directions – writing copy for your email campaigns, landing pages and so on (oh, hi, to-do list!).A good way to make sure that you're regularly publishing new content on your blog is to en... > Read more
Case Study: The Curious Case of Toolbar PageRank
Or, Why Does My Personal Blog Have the Same PageRank as a Search Marketing Site with a Huge SEO Budget?A couple of weeks ago, Google rolled out a new update to Toolbar PageRank. Victor Pan, our resident SEO "ninja," dropped me and Larry a note, letting us know the WordStream site is holding steady at 5.
Out of curiosity, I checked the PageRank on my own blog. It was also a 5. Amused, I let them know, and Larry shot back, "You should be running our SEO meetings!"In case you don't find this as surprising as we do, let me tell you a little more about these two sites:WordStream.com: We're a venture-backed search marketing company that has been around for about five years. We primarily sell PPC management software, but we also offer both free and paid keyword research tools as well ... > Read more
5 Blog Redesign Mistakes That Kill SEO
SEO, when done right, never interferes with web design, but sometimes redesigning a site can unknowingly interfere with search engine optimization. This is why teamwork among SEOs, designers, marketers and developers is critical during a blog redesign process.Here are 5 common web design mistakes that kill search engine optimization:1.
High-traffic pages are removed or deletedThe blog redesign process often identifies site content that is no longer a priority, but pages should never be deleted. Older blog posts often bring in a high volume of traffic, and those aged URLs create domain authority and page authority for organic search traffic. Instead of removing pages, protect your SEO and visitor experience by using 301 permanent redirects to ensure visitors via organic search and referral ... > Read more
5 Great Marketing Case Studies from Around the Web
One of my favorite types of blog post is the marketing case study – a personalized story of success or failure (or otherwise interesting or unexpected results). As blog posts go, it's not as easy to churn out as a "top 5" post (ahem), but you can learn so much more from them. It's often easier to take something actionable away from specific examples and real stories than vague abstractions, so a well-written case study is a great way to get attention and links.
As an added benefit, a case study is always unique, whereas standard tip posts are often just reproducing information you can find elsewhere on the web.If you haven't considered writing this type of content before, I encourage you to give it a shot! Think about a specific strategy you implemented recently that reall... > Read more
What You're Doing Wrong with Your Content Marketing: 5 Common Mistakes
Content marketing, along with social media and SEO, is an incredibly important component of any inbound marketing campaign – efforts designed to bring your target audience to you, instead of you trying to force your brand on them.You've probably heard the phrase "Content is king" before, and that's because it's true! The search engines read your webpage content to determine if it matches a search query, your target audience reads content you produce (blogs, articles, whitepapers, etc.
) to learn more about your given industry, and producing great content is what earns your company a reputation as a valuable and trusted source of information. In short, a great content marketing campaign can accomplish a lot!But running a great content marketing campaign is more complicated than c... > Read more
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Why Blog? Three Good Business Reasons to Blog
Richard Kraneis, a longtime WordStream reader, recently left a comment on our blog questioning whether a certain post would "drive qualified traffic to our website." This brings up an interesting question: Why blog? What are the goals of blogging?Of course the answer is different depending on whether you're talking about a personal blog or a corporate blog, but this is a business blog, and we wouldn't devote resources to blogging if it didn't make good business sense.
Here are three reasons that might motivate you to write a blog post for a corporate blog. In my opinion, every blog post doesn't need to fulfill all three purposes, though it's great if they do. The important thing is that every post fulfills at least one of these purposes, and that you don't focus only on one of the thr... > Read more
5 SEO Recommendations for Better Business Blogging
Corporate blogging is a great Internet marketing technique for multiple reasons. Not only does a company blog give the search engines more content to index (growing your trust factor), a business blog can be instrumental in building your online brand. Blogs are inherently social in nature, which means they are also a great way to connect with current and potential customers.
In short, a well-written blog can help all aspects of your web marketing campaign, including SEO.Here are five simple ways to better optimize your business blog for SEO:Write naturallyIt may sound like a "duh!" thing to say, but you'd be amazed at how many blog posts out there are crammed with keywords and anchor text. It's the number one rule of any content marketing campaign: you have to write for human reade... > Read more
Top 5 Ways to Monetize a WordPress Blog
Many people start a blog with one intention: making money. While this is not a good sole reason to start a blog, it is a nice added benefit that comes with building up your blog with quality content and maintaining a decent amount of traffic.It's not a mystery that you can make money from your blog, but many users often struggle with it and end up giving up altogether.
You cannot expect to make a lot of money when first starting out. You have to create a name for yourself and prove that your blog can stand on its own. While these five methods to monetize your WordPress blog are sure to come in handy, you'll also want to take note of the essential tips for building and maintaining a successful blog.Pay Per ClickThis is one of the most popular methods used to monetize a blog and one of t... > Read more
Launching My First Blog: Learning from My Mistakes
What's the old saying? "One definition of crazy is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results"? Are you "crazy" when it comes to online marketing or do you adapt and learn from your mistakes? After 12 months, I'm adapting. Around March 1 of last year I began my Online GED Site blog.
I never expected it would make tons of money. I hoped it would teach me about blogging, WordPress, Google Analytics, keyword research, and using some of WordStream's free tools. Here's a graph of my visitor traffic for one year. It took 8 months to attract my first 1000 visitors. Now, during this last month, I attracted 1000 visitors in 30 days alone. What were my mistakes? A failure to build backlinks, building an email opt-in too late, an unattractive website (... > Read more
How to Build a Blogger Outreach Campaign, Part 2
Traditional advertising is so 2010. It shows too: People just aren't trusting and are learning to tune out those banner and video ads that pop up. So why spend your money on something that may or may not get you results, especially when there are ample substitutes that likely cost less and absolutely get you better results.
Enter the blogger outreach campaign. A few weeks back, I showed the basics to building a blogger outreach campaign for your business. If this is your first visit, you'll want to go back and read steps 1-4: You wouldn't be seeking inbound links if you haven't done your keyword research first. Here, we'll run down what you do once you've selected and signed on your blogs, what to expect, and how to measure if it was successful. 5. Do What You Said You Would Wh... > Read more
Using Google Insights for Search to Fight Blogger's Block
If you write blog content with any consistency, you've stared at a blank page anxiously as time winds down on a deadline. But one of the great things about being a blogger is the wealth of keyword tools available online. Rather than being left to your own brainstorming devices, you can use any of a number of tools to come up with great blog ideas.
One such tool with a lot of great features for blog ideation is Google Insights for Search. Getting Started: Using Google Insights for Search Terms & Filters We'll start at the beginning and look at some different ways to seed our search for great blog ideas. We have some great options at our disposal for filtering the types of insights we get from the tool right out of the gate. If we're running a local blog we can use time range in the... > Read more
Be Nice to Bloggers & They'll Be Nice to You: How to Build A Blogger Outreach Campaign, Part 1
AP officially recognized blogs as credible news sources in September 2010, but people have trusted blogs a lot longer than that. In fact, due to an over-saturated, price-driven advertising market, blogs — and the recommendations and sharing of information through social media that come from them — are quickly becoming the most trustworthy form of "advertising" (and I use that term loosely because blogs are more editorial than anything).
Adding a blogger outreach element to your marketing campaign is the best way to harness the power of your industry's influential blogs, build brand awareness among the people who matter, and get some quality content links back to your website to drive your SEO campaign. Best of all, you have a definable way to measure your ROI. Caesars Entertainme... > Read more
10 Great Corporate Blogs and What Makes Them Work
Corporate blogs have a reputation for being nothing more than another way of distributing press releases. This is because most companies just don't understand how blogging is supposed to work, and they view it as a way to talk to the public rather than with them.While corporate news, sale announcements and product launches are all important things to have in a corporate blog, they don't have to be the focus.
A good corporate blog offers readers a reason to subscribe and can keep customers connected and interested in a company, even when nothing in particular is happening.But while creating an engaging corporate blog is not complicated, very few companies seem to have mastered it. However, some have and here are just ten examples of companies with compelling blogs that do more than serve as... > Read more
Blog Strategies: How to Build Relationships with Bloggers
I've been blogging now for a little over three years now, and one of the important lessons I've learned during that time is that, to have a successful blog, you need to build relationships with other bloggers. Now, smart link builders have long understood that "link building is relationship building," and you will get more links by forging friendships than you will cold emailing strangers and begging for links.
The same holds true for "blog building," and developing relationships with your contemporaries is something that should be part of every bloggers' strategy. Networking with other bloggers in your niche allows you to: Develop mutually beneficial connections Generate more awareness for your own blog Establish credibility and cache for you and your blog (via a recommendation from an ... > Read more


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Manager knows, we aren't allowed to say anything because technically we do "mess up" her order. She always says her order normal and picks a random thing that we "added without her consent". We aren't allowed to refuse service either unless she physically steals or gets violent with employees. Sucks.


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State and local governments are experiencing unprecedented budget deficits. The local board of education budget is often 70% or more of a town's entire budget. In addition, the majority of the education budget is salary. To avoid even larger deficits many towns are reducing their education personnel. Teachers of the "specials" (physical education, art, music, special education and library media specialists) are often the first to be laid off. While CASL as a non-profit organization cannot lobby, it can advocate for school library media specialists.
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- State level advocacy: CASL seeks ways to collaborate with the State Department of Education. The retirement of Art Skerker left school library media specialists without a representative in the State Department of Education. CASL is seeking other people to present our needs to the State Department of Education and the State Board of Education.
- National advocacy: The President and Vice-President of CASL attend AASL Affiliate Assembly at the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter and annual meetings. They present both commendations and concerns to AASL for national action.
- Recognizing best practice: CASL's Awards Program recognizes outstanding programs and library media specialists. Award winners receive a letter that is usually shared with their building and district administrators publicizing how library media specialists impact student learning.
- Toolkits: CASL is preparing toolkits and AASL already has several toolkits that library media specialists can use to promote their programs and show teachers, administrators and parents the impact of their program on student learning. Visit the Toolkit page to access these useful tools
Cassandra Barnett, president of AASL, put together this chart (PDF) comparing AASL Standards, P21 and ISTE Nets.
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Back in 2007, physicist Dr. David Criswell came up with the idea for the Lunar Solar Power System (or LSPS), which would see harvested solar energy on the moon beamed back to Earth via microwave. Now, one designer is showing what that could look like.
The design comes by way of Bryna Anderson, a graduate student from Columbia University, who took all the marbles in the 2010 Moon Capital International Design Challenge. Engineering-wise, it works the same as the LSPS, gathering energy via photovoltaic cells and using microwave generators to beam that power back to points all across the planet Earth.
What's crazy, though, is how the architecture on the moon can deviate from what we expect here on the planet. Rather than something flat and huge like a field, Anderson has gone for a spire that houses the plant, the cells and the workers, and looks darn cool to boot. Constructing such a spire would be tricky, though — unless we get robots to do it.
Down below are a few more images for you to piece out — all in all, this is one zany looking spire!
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Contract of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliaen van Rensselaer
|←Instructions to Bastiaen Jansz Krol from Kiliaen van Rensselaer (January 10, 1630)
|Contract of sale of land along the Hudson River from the Mahican Indians to Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1630)
by , translated by Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer
Whereas Bastiaen Janssen Crol, Comissar at Fort Orange, stated here at the Manhatas to the Honorable Council of this place, that the land situated near the aforesaid fort could not be bought this present year from the owners thereof and that, even though it were acquired afterwards, it would be understood by the Virginians to be sold only for so long as he, Crol, should continue to reside at the fort; and whereas likewise, when Wolffert Gerritsz, having orders from his Hon. Masters to inform their Honors of the situation there, expressly inquired of him, Crol, what and what sort of information he should send to their Honors aforesaid, he, Crol, did thereupon reply that there was this year no chance or means of acquiring any land, repeating the same several times, according to the deposition thereof made by the aforesaid Wolffert Gerritsz, it happened afterwards that Gillis Hosset, having on the 27th of July, 1630, in sailing up the river, come to the place where Jan Jansz Meyns was camping with his men to cut round timber for the new ship, there also came by chance to this spot Kotiamak, Nawanemitt, Abantzenee, Sagiskwa and Kanmoak, owners and proprietors of their respective parcels of land extending up the river, south and north of said fort, to a little south of Moeneminne's Castle, belonging jointly and collectively to the owners aforesaid, together with the land called Semesseeck, situated on the east shore, from opposite Castle Island to the aforesaid fort, belonging to the said Nawanemit in particular; also from Petanock, the Mill Kill, northward to Negagonse, extending fully about three [Dutch] miles; and the aforesaid Gillis Hosset, having entered into negotiations with the owners of the aforesaid land to sell, cede and surrender the said respective parcels of land, as they thereafter, on the sixth of August following, before us, the Director and Council of New Netherland, residing on the island of Manhats [sic] and Fort Amsterdam, under the jurisdiction of their High Mightinesses, the Lords States General of the United Netherlands, and the Chartered West India Company, Chamber of Amsterdam, voluntarily and deliberately did for and in consideration of certain quantities of merchandise, the receipt whereof into their hands and power they acknowledged before the execution of these presents, and as they hereby, by virtue and title of sale, do transfer, cede and convey the same to and for the benefit of the Hon. Kiliaen van Rensselaer, being absent and for whom we, ex officio, accept the same with proper stipulations, namely the respective parcels of land hereinbefore specified, with the forests, appurtenances and dependencies thereof, together with all the right, title and interest therein belonging jointly and severally to the grantors aforesaid who hereby constitute and substitute the above mentioned Hon. Mr. Rensselaer in their stead, state, right, real and actual possession thereof, at the same time giving him full, absolute and irrevocable power, authority and special order, tanquam actor et procurator in rem suam et propriam, to enter upon the said land, the same to be possessed in peace, cultivated, occupied and used by the aforesaid Mr. Rensselaer, or those who may hereafter acquire his right; also to do and act therewith and dispose thereof as his Honor or others would do, or be allowed to do, with their own property and by lawful title acquired lands and domains, with-out any part, right, interest, or authority in the least, whether of ownership, command or jurisdiction, being kept, reserved, or retained by the grantors aforesaid, who on the contrary in his behalf, as before stated ad infinitum desist therefrom and surrender, relinquish and renounce te same by these presents. Promising further, not only forever to hold firm, binding and irrevocable and to carry out and fulfill this their transfer and all that may be done by virtue thereof, but also to guard against eviction from the aforesaid land, obligans et nuncians et a bone fide. In witness whereof these presents are confirmed by our usual signatures and the ordinary seal suspended below. Done on the aforesaid island of Manhatas and at Fort Amsterdam, the day and year written above.
- Peter Minuit, D[irector]
- Pieter Bylveltt,
- Jan Lampo. Schout,
- Reyner Harmensen,
- Jan Jansz Meyns
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Developing a care navigation model involves a five-step process:
When was the last time you read a map? Today, we can access technologies such as global positioning systems that are designed to guide us where we need to go. In health care, however, patients traditionally have not had even a paper "map" to consult to guide them through care processes, delivery systems, and treatment, let alone step-by-step navigation for their care.
Care navigation is gaining traction in health systems, community-based health initiatives, and primary care practices. Clinically skilled care navigators spend time with patients on behalf of physicians and hospitals, reviewing critical details such as medication schedules and symptom management with patients and their families. They engage additional resources for patients, such as community pharmacist assistance and administrative support, where necessary.
Care navigators also provide a bridge between appointments with physicians. They tend to patients' needs and help keep patients on track with care plans while eliminating unnecessary resource consumption, such as trips to the emergency department for care that could be provided in an office setting.
The use of care navigators has been proven to enhance patient satisfaction. At Cleveland Clinic, patient service navigators provide personalized guidance and support to patients and their families each day, collaborate with nurses in resolving patient concerns, and empower patients to take an active role in their care. Their efforts have led to improvements in HCAHPS scores in a variety of areas, such as staff responsiveness and pain control (Focus on the Patient Experience, Cleveland Clinic, Spring 2010). In northeast Ohio, use of care navigators has resulted not only in higher HCAHPS scores, but also in reduced costs related to canceled appointments and no-shows; the cost savings in the first few months of the initiative covered the salary of the care navigator ("Panel Event Examines Growing Role of Patient Navigators in Northeast Ohio," Center for Health Affairs, Oct. 31, 2012).
Despite the apparent benefits of care navigation, however, the effort to change fundamental care delivery processes to support the role of a care navigator (sometimes referred to as a "care manager" or "care coordinator") is not without obstacles.
Most physician offices and health systems have spent years perfecting their processes around a fee-for-service payment model. Many providers believe that hiring care navigators adds to a hospital's or physician practice's overall costs while discouraging revenue-generating patient visits. This can be true-if care navigation is not supported with data analysis and the right model for care management.
But the benefits of care navigation will soon become evident in an environment of healthcare reform and shared-risk agreements. Care navigation models can be applied across multiple patient populations. The use of care navigators will soon become a core competency in the provider setting: Care navigation models form the basis for tackling some of health care's most deeply rooted problems, such as preventable readmissions, system leakage (referrals and admissions outside of a hospital's or health system's partner networks), and redundant and expensive tests.
Before care navigation can truly take root, several challenges must be managed into opportunities. Following are five steps for developing a care navigation model that hospitals, health systems, and physician practices should consider.
A care navigation model that can mitigate an organization's level of risk and exposure takes time to pull together. It is important to first identify where your organization's exposure to risk exists.
For example, are there specific patient populations, such as Medicaid self-pay patients, for whom care navigation could improve quality of care and significantly reduce costs? Does your rate of readmissions put your organization at risk for financial penalties from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)? Are there opportunities to enhance revenue by providing care navigators for specific patient populations? Some payers, including CMS, are paying as much as $20 per attributed patient per month to providers to manage care.
Hospitals, health systems, and physician practices are most likely losing money on at least one patient population-often patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). The average cost to care for some CHF admissions can exceed payment-even before readmissions penalties are considered. By understanding your organization's current losses as well as potential losses, you can best assess what type of investment you can afford to make to help address weaknesses.
This past October, CMS's readmissions reduction program went into effect, with hospitals facing monetary penalties for excess readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. According to a Kaiser Health News analysis, 1,422 hospitals will lose slightly more money than expected under the program's revised rules for excess readmissions, while only 55 hospitals will lose less money than anticipated (Rau, J., "Medicare Revises Hospitals' Readmission Penalties," KaiserHealthNews.org, Oct. 2, 2012).
Many organizations have already begun to examine their financial risk related to these conditions. Dig deeper: Conduct a thorough review of your patient load by risk, payer, diagnosis, and care setting. You might be surprised to discover a few new holes in your organization's bucket. Examine your referral partners: Are patients consistently being readmitted from the same skilled nursing facility? Are your partners referring patients to facilities outside your organization? What is your true cost of care for a chronically ill patient? Does it exceed the resulting payment? Is your health plan self-funded?
Answers to questions such as these can help you identify the populations for which care navigation can produce a clinical or financial ROI. The successful launch of a care navigation initiative-even on a smaller scale-establishes the groundwork for the future of accountable care while improving clinical outcomes and generating positive financial results.
MissionPoint Health Partners, part of Saint Thomas Health in Nashville, and Detroit Medical Center's Michigan Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model are both excellent examples of this approach. MissionPoint began its ACO to navigate care for its self-funded health plan population. Since then, it has expanded the program-by implementing a Medicare Shared Savings Program, for example-to support additional populations. The Michigan Pioneer ACO, one of 32 Pioneer ACOs, began by managing Medicare patients; it will soon expand to manage care for the state health plan population.
CMS and a collection of commercial payers in Michigan designed the Michigan Primary Care Transformation Project (MiPCT) in 2011 to sustainably improve overall population health. Initiatives included efforts to reduce health risks for healthy individuals, provide self-management support for patients with moderate chronic disease as well as care coordination and support for patients with severe chronic disease, and ensure access to appropriate, coordinated end-of-life care. The program requires participants to maintain a specific patient-to-care manager/navigator ratio and pays participants a monthly fee per patient. MiPCT supports more than 1.1 million patients across Michigan.
The most important step in developing a care navigation model is to identify the people who will help manage a patient's care journey as well as the model itself.
As with any operation, the attributes of staff can mean the difference between success and failure. Remember, the goal of care navigation is not to medically manage all patients; rather, the goal is to help most patients navigate the system themselves, while medically managing patients who truly need a higher level of support. This is a critical distinction. Nurses are trained to insist upon managing every detail of a patient's care. Care navigation requires a different mindset, one that balances clinical aspects of patient care with business sense to determine the amount of time that should be invested in managing each patient's care.
The most successful teams are often led by or include an individual who understands the care navigation and care management process from a nurse's point of view and who has demonstrated the ability to move into a business administration role. Hiring a leader who can be both player and coach is essential. The care navigator should have excellent communication skills, not just to foster patient and family engagement, but also to promote the mission of care navigation to partners in finance, IT, compliance, the medical staff, and clinical care. Experience in multiple care settings is a positive, because one requirement of the job is to build strong working relationships with care partners across the continuum. Without a nursing perspective at the table, dissension will erupt among those providing the care and those making the decisions, resulting in a cracked foundation from the start.
This leader should assemble or be surrounded by a team of care navigators, care managers, and administrative personnel to support the patient population. Care navigators should have incentives to maintain objectivity, walking a fine line between managing a patient's care and helping the patient navigate care. Care navigators have a big job: They are responsible for patients, but they also are responsible for documenting interactions, coordinating community resources, managing internal politics, and supporting the organization's reporting needs. This is a lot to ask of any role.
Sometimes the team's structure, decision- making process, and responsibilities can be the primary challenge for care navigators. A care navigator's skills should align with the patient population being supported and the design of the program. For example, if the program is underpinned by technology, care navigators should be comfortable working with computer software that supports the program's long-term success.
Integrated Health Partners (IHP) of Battle Creek, Mich., has leveraged a patient-focused care navigation model since 2009. IHP uses process mapping to identify barriers to enhancing the efficiency and quality of care, provides automated reminders to care navigators and physicians related to patient health screenings and disease management, and collaborates with community agencies to ensure patients receive the support they need. IHP's executive director is a nurse whose intimate understanding of the care navigation process and the financial needs of her physician organization have been instrumental in ensuring its successful participation in shared-risk programs, including the multipayer MIPCT, the largest patient-centered medical home project in the nation.
Before engaging with patients, it is crucial that time be spent developing and documenting a strategy for engaging the entire continuum of care through care navigation. Tried-and-true clinical judgment should be the basis for the model's protocols, but clinicians are not needed to support the fulfillment of every activity.
Leverage administrative resources to support nonclinical tasks, such as appointment setting, to ensure timely follow-up and prevent system leakage. Align both existing partnerships and new relationships alike with the goals, objectives, and processes of the care navigation initiative so that everyone will be on the same page. A care coordination platform to support providers' work documentation requirements, identify the patients who need support, and enable scalable and patient-specific cross-continuum communication should be implemented to avoid redundancies and accurately measure performance. This approach will reduce the time spent caring for each patient while improving both clinical and financial outcomes.
Stratifying patients by risk of readmission and/or ability to self-manage care is an effective way to ensure the care navigation model will serve more patients with fewer FTEs. Planning for patients by risk as opposed to DRG can allow you to mitigate your organization's financial exposure more effectively. This approach requires more documentation related to best practices and protocols, however. Such documentation helps take the guesswork out of processes and protocols for care navigators and provider partners while giving family caregivers an opportunity to participate in their loved ones' care with confidence. Having the right protocols in place ensures that patients receive the right treatment in the proper care setting.
Finally, define the method that will be used to measure performance, and leave room for adjustments in your program design. Reporting helps identify gaps in care, and based on your data, you may find it necessary to weed out referral partners that are not supporting the organization as expected.
Remember, too, that there is no "one-size-fits-all" design. Localize the program to the patient population and community it supports. These action steps have been successfully used by organizations that previously found the implementation and scaling of care navigation protocols difficult to enact on a broad basis.
Once you have experienced success with care navigation for a targeted patient population, design ways to extend the reach of the program to other populations. By starting small, you can perfect processes and give care navigators increased confidence in their ability to make a difference for patients. Investment in care navigation will pay great dividends when the initiative is extended to other loss-leading patient populations.
Be sure also to document successes. Build a creative, subtle marketing campaign centered on positive outcomes and patient satisfaction so that care navigation becomes a differentiator for the organization. Such marketing also will help with physician recruitment efforts, as physicians naturally desire to be on a winning team.
Proper planning and prudent financial investment in establishing a top-flight care navigation program will serve as your organization's road map to success under value-based business models of care.
CFOs and other leaders tasked with keeping an eye on the bottom line should take the long view when examining the viability of care navigation. Visionary leaders always think two steps ahead. Deploying a well-planned care navigation program can generate tremendous returns for patients as well as for a healthcare provider's business in the short and long term.
Ben Albert is founder and CEO, Care Team Connect, Evanston, Ill. (email@example.com).
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