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Does your dentist have a blog? Does your dental office send out custom text messages or html email notifications? Is your dentist on Facebook, Linkedin or Twitter? Does your dentist have a Youtube, Viddler or Ustream channel?

How web savvy is your dentist? Well, we want to know.  Please take the time to submit a comment on why your dentist should be nominated for this list.

I know there are some innovative people in dentistry when it comes to fixing our teeth.  Smile makeovers are all the rage right now.  What we want to know most of all is how do you see your dentist when it comes to their ability to communicate with you through the use of the web.  So please take the time to post a comment and tell us all about your dentist and why they should be nominated for our “32 most Web Savvy Dentist” list.

Please feel free to list the website addresses to all the places where we can find your dentist on the web.
You may also email your nomination to: websavvy@dentistsos.com

You can also send us nominations using Twitter @dentistsos or http://www.twitter.com/dentistsos

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1. To Express Your Thoughts and Opinions
You have something to say, and blogs provide a place to say it and be heard.

2. To Market or Promote Your Practice
Blogging is a great way to help market or promote yourself or your practice, product or service.

3. To Help People
Many blogs are written to help people who may be going through similar situations that the blogger has experienced. Many parenting and health-related blogs are written for this purpose. An example would be to write a post on a certain procedure you have mastered in order to help a young dentist or a student still in dental school.

4. To Establish Yourself as an Expert
Blogs are wonderful tools to help bloggers establish themselves as experts in a field or topic. For example, if you’re trying to get a job in a specific field or hoping to publish a book on a specific topic, blogging can help legitimize your expertise and expand your online presence and platform.

5. To Connect with Your Patients
Blogging brings like-minded people together. Starting a blog can help you find those people and share your opinions and thoughts. It is also a great way to connect with your patients and get their feedback on issues you can help them with.

6. To Make a Difference
Many blogs are issue-based meaning the blogger is trying to provide information to sway people’s thinking in a certain direction. Many political blogs and social issues blogs are written by bloggers who are trying to make a difference in their own ways.

7. To Stay Active or Knowledgeable in a Field or Topic
Since successful blogging is partially dependent on posting frequency and providing updated, fresh information, it’s a perfect way to help a blogger stay abreast of the events in a specific field or topic.

8. To Stay Connected with Family, Friends and Patients
The world has shrunk since the Internet has become more accessible. Blogs provide a simple way for family, friends and patients to stay connected from different parts of the world by sharing stories, photos, videos and more.

9. To Have Fun and Be Creative
Many people start a blog simply for fun. Perhaps a blogger is a fan of a particular actor or loves knitting and wants to share that passion through a blog. One of the most important keys to successful blogging is having a passion about your blog’s topic, so you can write prolifically about it. Some of the best and most interesting blogs started out as blogs that were written just for fun and to give the blogger a creative outlet.

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