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September 17, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 3 Comments

“Better Health: Everyone’s Responsibility” – resources for today’s conference

Patients Included badge — Click to view Lucien Engelen’s “Patients Included” story on LinkedIn

For years we in the participatory medicine movement have been talking about the need to involve patients in all aspects of medicine – not just our own cases but even in the design of the whole system. The movement is exemplified by the Patients Included badge at right, created by Dutch health visionary Lucien Engelen.

Today I’m speaking at a truly extraordinary healthcare event in Hartford – it’s completely about, for, and aimed at the public – us ordinary people:

The title is right on target: “Better Health: Everyone’s Responsibility”
The event is scheduled from 12:45-8, so people only have to take a half day off work
Admission is $35 including dinner(!!), or $10 without(!!)

Over 500 local people (aka patients) are attending. For more, see the event’s website.

In my talk I’ll mention various resources participants can look up, to learn more about the movement and boost their own abilities. I’m going to publish this post now, and through the day I’ll add various things as they come to mind.

BIG thanks to the event’s organizers, the CT Partners for Health partnership and its founder Qualidigm. Here are some starter links: [Read more…]

August 30, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 15 Comments

Speaker Academy #9: Your website, with video

Screen grab of NeHC talk on my site — The first video of a talk I gave (click to visit on my site)

Edited a day later: This entry has advice but see also related post wondering how to convert DVD to YouTube.

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People ask me constantly how I get gigs – how I approach conference organizers, which events they should approach, to apply as a speaker. I don’t know, because I don’t approach them – I have never had success doing that. (I’m not saying you shouldn’t – I’m just saying I have no answers, because it never worked for me.)

100% of my marketing has been:

this website, plus
word-of-mouth testimonials:
“This guy was good. Hire him.”

I’ll have more to say about the website in the future but here are the fundamentals.

You need a website, or at least a blog, or at least a web page somewhere.

Why? [Read more…]

August 25, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 5 Comments

Speaker Academy #7: “Building a career as a public patient” (March 2011)

This is the latest in the Speaker Academy series, which started with this post seven weeks ago. It’s been much delayed by family and summer – all good! Before I resume here’s a blast from the past. Turns out I tried to do something similar back then.

I recently rediscovered this on my original blog, “The New Life of e-Patient Dave,” dated March 9, 2011. It had been 18 months since I’d had a full-time job, a year since I’d had even a part-time paycheck, and ten months since my first paid speaking engagement (May 2010 at the ICSI/IHI Colloquium).

The Past Events section of my Schedule page shows how many events I attended and spoke at, unpaid, before I started getting paid. That’s because back then hardly anyone saw value in a patient voice; in those days it was considered a favor to a patient to even listen to one. Some paid for travel costs, but that’s all. I’d been to forty events without a penny of pay.

Today things are different but we have much work to do. That’s a large part of the cause of this series.

This post mentions that we need a Patient Speakers Bureau. The website SpeakerLink is a start but it’s very young and it’s just a place for listings – it’s not a speaker’s bureau.
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“Building a career as a public patient” (March 2011)

Two years ago, when I was just starting to build a career in public speaking, I was constantly stymied by the fact that nobody wanted to pay for patients to speak – and, at least as importantly, if a conference organizerdid want a patient speaker, they had nowhere to turn. I posted A Call for a Patients Speakers Bureau. Excerpt:

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August 2, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 6 Comments

Speaker Academy #5: Knock it out of the park

Kent Bottles MD (from ConventionConnection.com)

If you’re new to this series of advice to speakers, read the initial post, and it’ll help if you follow the chain.

It’s been three weeks since this series went on hiatus. This post is the fourth to come from notes taken by Randi Redmond Oster. And this post springs from advice given to me by Kent Bottles MD, whom I mentioned yesterday on pricing. (That’s him speechifying, at right.)

In addition to counseling me about price integrity, Kent’s the one who taught me that it’s my responsibility to find out what’s on the organizer’s mind – which often involves helping with the exploration. As I said in #2, “two thirds of good speaking is good listening.”

The consultative approach

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July 11, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 10 Comments

Speaker Academy #3: Q&A on selling (Trevor Torres)

Lessons one and two were about understanding the world into which you want to speak, using text written by Randi Oster. We’ll continue with her tips #3-5 tomorrow but today I’ll step off that theme to answer some questions posed in a comment on Lesson 1 by Trevor Torres, a 17 year old hotshot “Diabetes Evangelist” who’s just started doing speeches. (See his first speech video* on his site.)

Here’s Trevor’s comment, with my answers embedded:
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The main thing I’m interested in right now is getting more speaking gigs! To that end, some questions:

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July 9, 2013 By e-Patient Dave 18 Comments

Speaker Academy, part 1: Marketing yourself

If you haven’t, be sure to read yesterday’s post introducing this series.

My previous post introduced a new series of mentoring posts to coach patients who are good speakers try to make a business out of it. Believe me, it’s not easy; effective speaking skills are only step one. This series will be about how I’ve built a business. It’s not the only way to do it; I’m just sharing what I’ve learned.

Last week I had such a mentoring call with Randi Redmond Oster, a self-described “writer, engineer and mother who is a passionate advocate for patient management reform.” She’d already been out there giving talks for free at public libraries, with strong positive feedback. Only recently did she realize she might get paid for it. She sought out experienced advice, and here we are: We talked on the phone with the agreement that she’d write it up for posting here (and on her site).

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