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The keyword is Transparency. This blog is a way to know exactly what's going on with the development of DrConnected. We will be honest and straight forward with you. If something doesn't work and we can't localize the root of the issue, we'll let you know. You will also read all the announcement for the great upcoming products and unique features to be implemented on your profile. Stay tuned and check this blog out as often as you can.


 
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DrConnected Latest Alpha Version Released (v.1.0)

by drconnected July 2, 2009 at 12:44 pm

DrConnected continues to expand to meet the demands of Healthcare’s networking needs.

Irvine, CA (Prestance Inc.) July 2, 2009—Prestance Inc announces the release of the latest alpha version of DrConnected web application.

This changing economy is starting to affect everyone, even the healthcare industry. Physicians have just as many concerns as any other business owner. They need to expand through successful networking, strong hospital affiliations and referrals.

DrConnected is a social network application designed to help physicians connect with one another and gain exposure for their practice. Subscription to DrConnected is free and to begin, the user builds a Public Profile that displays the physician’s name, specialization, name of practice, location, profile photo, organizations and hospital affiliations. Each Public Profile is crawled by major search engines and can be viewed by those conducting the search. In addition, DrConnected alpha v.1.0 has the following features incorporated: Network List of Colleagues, Invite a Colleague, Blog, and Got Feedback Button.

Prestance Inc is currently working on implementing the following features: Applications for BlackBerry and iPhone, Advanced Search Engine Optimization for Public Profiles, and Direct Search on the DrConnected homepage to allow patients to find physicians by name, location, and/or specialization. All of these features are scheduled to be deployed progressively this summer.

For additional information on DrConnected, contact J. Renee Rose or visit www.drconnected.com. Prestance Inc’s goals for DrConnected are to optimize physicians’ exposure, maximize physician productivity, help patients obtain detailed information on physicians and health practices, and to increase professional and patient referrals for physicians and specialists.

About Prestance Inc:
Prestance Inc is a visual communication firm committed to providing innovative and customized solutions to its clients. DrConnected is just another example of Prestance Inc’s research and development expertise that anticipates and exceeds the needs of market demand. Prestance, Inc also provides customized web development applications and websites, along with highly advanced SEO solutions. Simple, clean, useful: Prestance.

“Prestance was instrumental in the development of our website, their insight was invaluable along with their market research to ensure that we stood out from other medical websites currently published,” said Doctor Gleeson, medical director of Laguna Niguel Medical Center. “The working relationship was ideal for my busy practice schedule; they always worked around my needs and always were ahead of schedule with their different phases of development. They are more than my website designers; they are my website PARTNERS and I highly recommend them to all businesses.”

Contact:
Prestance, Inc.
P.O. Box 60427
Irvine, CA 92602
1-888-293-5629 Ext: 803
J. Renee Rose, Executive Assistant

http://www.prestanceinc.com
http://www.drconnected.com

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Physicians of Excellence 2009

by drconnected April 7, 2009 at 1:22 pm

It’s always good to hear great news, especially when it’s about one of Prestance, Inc’s clients. Dr Iman Bar was honored Physician of Excellence 2009 by the Orange County Medical Association in the OrangeCoast Magazine. From the award: “The physicians of Excellence program was developed by the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA), the largest physician membership organization in the county. (…) This annual program aims to honor the regions many outstanding physicians.”

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Physicians can also benefit from SEO with DrConnected.com

by drconnected December 28, 2008 at 3:49 am

Physicians have just as many concerns as any other business owner. They need to grow through successful networking, hospital affiliations, and referrals.

I have been talking to several physicians in the past few days. As you know, this changing economy is starting to affect everyone, even the healthcare industry. For sure, some will barely feel the crisis, but an overwhelming majority is already feeling the impact of this past year’s economic changes.

In days like these, you want to eliminate any or all unnecessary expenses and maximize the values of the time you are spending. So you definitely cannot afford to do anything but continue to work hard to grow. This is how DrConnected.com has come into the picture. With a changing economy, every cent saved is a glory. Opening your account with us is free and you not only benefits from the social networking aspect of our web application, but you also expose your profile to major search engines.

#1 Public Profile for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

We made it easy for search engines to find your profile, because every profile holder at DrConnected.com has a public profile assigned: http://www.drconnected.com/users/Name (with an underscore to separate the first name and last name.

Wondering what it looks like? You can see the profile of a valuable member: Hisham Seify MD (http://drconnected.com/users/Hisham_Seify). 

Your profile will not display on major search engines overnight. It takes time. It’s constant work from our end and you can help too! If you have a website, add the link of your DrConnected profile to it (you can click on “Public Profile” on your account to get the exact link).

We have worked hard to enable this option and now, when you create a free account, you can benefit from it too! Some firms will make you pay hundreds of dollars to provide you with SEO services, but with DrConnected, your public profile is queued to be crawled by majors search engine bots once you create an account with us. So don’t wait anymore!

#2 Public Search

What would be the advantage of having a public profile if the user can’t also do a search through the platform and discover more about DrConnected.com? This is why we have enabled the search option for any visitor to find your office information on our website.

Give it a try and provide us with your feedback!

More to come. Stay Tuned.

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Very active first month… And a lot more to come!

by drconnected December 1, 2008 at 2:13 pm


We officially launched the alpha version of this powerful web-application in the beginning of November 2008. Today, as we are starting the month of December. We would like to introduce you some of the great features that were implemented during November.


#1 DrConnected Blog
DrConnected blog was launched around the same time we release our first alpha version of our innovative social network for doctors.

#2 Recommendation Process
Implementation of a powerful Recommendation System in the Search Engine (if variable $searched isn’t found). Basically what that mean is, if you did not successfully found one of your colleague on DrConnected’s system, you can easily send an invitation by email.

#3 Forgot your Password?
We implemented also the “Forgot your password” option to enable users to retrieve a new password.

#4 Strong Security Improvement
One of our main priority is to always optimize our code to provide you and us more security. Major Security improvement were done when we released our version 0.6.4 alpha.

#5 Intuitive User-Interface
We proudly introduced our new branding few days ago on DrConnected. It took us months (to say the least) to work on the branding of DrConnected. We (Actually, Prestance, Inc.) created and worked on different styles, colors, typography in trying to produce to most “easy to use” social network web-application on the market. Our goal is to provide physicians, the most intuitive application for their industry.

#6 Got Feedback Option
Nothing is more important to us, than the user experience of our application. This is why we added the “Got Feedback” Button that you will find on the bottom right side of your screen, when you log in to your DrConnected Account. We already received valuable feedback, and are working on implementing some new features.

We will sometime this week, provide you a calendar of features implementation for December. Stay Tuned.

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Social Network for Doctors - DrConnected

by drconnected November 28, 2008 at 4:51 pm

We are proud to announce the release of the new re-branded version of DrConnected v.0.6.5 alpha! Hundreds of hours to put together this new version. One of the biggest change for our users is the visual!

#1 We designed a new Branding for DrConnected.

DoctorsConnected New Branding

#2 New User-Interface (UI) when you login to your account

New User Interface when you login to your account

DrConnected it’s thousands and thousands of lines of code, and we are focusing on making your experience here as delightful as possible. When you log in on your account now, you will notice clearly a change with a cleaner interface. Our goal is to make it easy and convenient for you to best use all the features included at DrConnected. No extra, but just what’s needed!

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

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HOW-TO: Upload your Profile Picture

by drconnected at 4:42 pm

The advantage of uploading your own profile picture is countless! Your bio picture was certainly requested to be published on your affiliated hospital at some point in your career. If you never did before, you will see how easy it is to do so on DrConnected.

#Step 1: Choose a picture for your profile picture that you saved on your computer. If the size of the picture is too large, you will have to choose another picture.
First choose a picture for your profile picture that you saved on your computer

#Step 2: Crop the picture so that you only select the area that you want to display
Crop the picture so that you only select the area that you want to displayCrop the picture so that you only select the area that you want to display

#Step 3: Now you can resize the picture to a smaller or larger size of display. We recommend you to keep the picture on display at a reasonable size, just like any other Bio picture you will find on a resume. Move the slider right to make your picture larger or left to make your picture smaller
Move the slider right to make your picture larger or left to make your picture smaller

#Step 4: You are Done!
Done!

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DrConnected v.0.6.4 alpha released!

by drconnected November 19, 2008 at 3:57 pm

We are announcing the release of v.0.6.4 today. Things are evolving pretty quickly.

This is a brief list of update that we worked on:

#1 More Security

More Security

One of our main priority is to always optimize our code to provide you and us more security.

#2 Edit your Profile


We've published the new version of our "Edit Profile" module accessible through your member section. New design, New CSS. Enjoy!

#3 Forgot your Password?

Forgot your password? You can now easily reset your password. You'll recieve an email to confirm your new password!

Forgot your password? You can now easily reset your password. You'll recieve an email to confirm your new password!

#4 Got Feedback?

You've got a feedback about this social network, or would like to request a new feature idea? This is the right place to do so.

You've got a feedback about this social network, or would like to request a new feature idea? This is the right place to do so.

Much more great updates are coming. Stay Tuned..

The DrConnected Team

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HOW-TO: Create an account (free)

by drconnected November 16, 2008 at 7:36 pm

This tutorial will show you how to create a free account on DrConnect. Just follow the steps.

#STEP 1: Go to to http://drconnected.com

Click on “Create your Account“.

#STEP 2: Enter your information (30sec max)

You need to enter first a valid email address. Then a password (min 6 char.). then your fullname and your title.

Choose your Specialty

Select your area of expertise from the dropdown menu. Read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, if you agree, you may continue further.

Click on “Sign-Up”

#STEP 3: You’re done!

Within seconds, you should be receiving an activation request on your email. Click on the “Activate my Account” link in the email received. You’re all set.

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DrConnected v.0.6 alpha released!

by drconnected at 5:17 pm

We are announcing the release of v.0.6 today. Things are evolving pretty quickly.

This is a brief list of update that we worked on:

#1 Recommendation Process

Implementation of a powerful Recommendation System in the Search Engine (if variable $searched isn’t found). Basically what that mean is, if you did not successfully found one of your colleague on our system, you can easily send an invitation email.

#2 Redesigned the blog css and upgraded to latest version of Wordpress (2.6.3)

Restyled the CSS of the blog & upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.3

Much more great updates are coming. Stay Tuned..

The DrConnected Team

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DrConnected starts an AdWord Campaign today

by drconnected November 13, 2008 at 1:19 am

AdWord Campaign started today

AdWord Campaign started today

DrConnected started today an Adword campaign to get the word out about our social network. We are also using other services to promote our social network. We will keep you updated on the results of this campaign. This is just the beginning.

Thanks for using DrConnected.

The DrConnected Team

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