Intelligence Unplugged: Top 25 Tweets of 2011

We’re three months into 2011 and there’s a lot going on! Following are the best tweets so far this year covering healthcare, marketing, insurance and strategy.  There’s tons of information, so click through for a deep dive on topics such as PPACA, Long Term Care, business trends, marketing gurus, wellness, and digital customers.

HEALTHCARE

Healthcare’s efficiency & cost dilemma: any fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple - http://bit.ly/hpIJ7o

Long Term Care needs are the big dark cloud hanging over boomers – fail to prepare, prepare to fail - http://bit.ly/harIj9

With Medicaid set to grow by 16 million, looming question is who’s going to meet this group’s pent-up demand for medical care - http://bit.ly/hqbEIO

Today’s wellness conundrum is measuring ROI – is it hard dollar savings or number of employee engaged? - http://bit.ly/h0qqNJ

“The Hot Spotters” or “stats-and-stethoscopes” attacking medical cost problem across US by stealth targeting - http://nyr.kr/hLme4u

Hospitals can’t sit back while PPACA takes hold; must retool, reengineer and reestablish in healthcare ecosystem’s new value chain - http://bit.ly/enYeSe


MARKETING

Future of marketing is data, direct and digital...and the big guys get it better than most - http://bit.ly/gDvNzC

Best practice database marketing tracks and measures customer interactions and turns data into intelligence to predict the future - http://bit.ly/fkF3Rx

History’s your marketing timeline bellwether of keeping pace with fast & furious change: anticipate, prepare & act - http://bit.ly/9xmfPb

Modern day “mad man” speaks about data, innovation, globalization and going BIG “only dead fish swim with current” - http://bit.ly/fjXqQB

Marketing’s forces of change...crowdsourcing, apps, boomers, green, health, travel...and much more - http://bit.ly/ewf94y

Keeping your brand alive with digital consumers takes different right time, right places tactical formula - http://bit.ly/gmTGAw


INSURANCE

Health Care Reform still has most people confused is opportunity for brokers & insurers to get out front to educate, advise & guide - http://bit.ly/fWFvUZ

Nursing home@$80k/yr & home care@$20k/yr, is PPACA CLASS Act answer to Long Term Care when boomers are ready- http://1.usa.gov/gLVe0W

A workable compromise to PPACA’s individual mandate means exploring alternatives and making tough decisions and compromises - http://bit.ly/eFdvfo

Medicare Star Ratings are driving this industry segment hard, will the force (aka CMS) be with them? - http://bit.ly/i1NGrH

PPACA’s big challenge: who wins regulators or entrepreneurs? Place your bets - http://bit.ly/a3G5GC

Healthcare consumerism means customers (member/patient/beneficiary) have skin in the game, but all players must ante-up - http://bit.ly/gQo6wn


STRATEGY

Cool business ideas across the entrepreneurial spectrum to get your innovation genes moving - http://bit.ly/g66avm

Good luck keeping up mega-trends shaping the competitive landscape throughout 2011- http://bit.ly/gmP1Ko

Social media at a tipping point, a step backwards or an inconsequential blip in society’s ability to communicate and influence the revolution - http://nyr.kr/fLqX1e

We’ve entered the Year of the Boomer, what’s their view of future: money and retirement - http://linkd.in/hCGBGG

TMI, multitasking, screen envy, communication overload–how’s it affecting productivity and creativity of today’s executives - http://bit.ly/g2gfJF

Always worthwhile Trendwatching– keep an eye on wealthy and urbanomics - http://bit.ly/fVxN7P

Best way to anticipate and stay ahead of trends is with top 50 healthcare industry blogs - with Resnick Unplugged @ #15 - http://bit.ly/hsukba