Our next profile is with Kathryn Armstrong, who is a Senior Web Communications Producer at the Lehigh Valley Health Network. Kathryn was one my first connections on Twitter and we traded ideas and information way back in the early days. (that would be 11 months ago). She quickly set up accounts on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook and manages an active, growing community on those networks.
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Our next profile is with Marc Needham, Director of Web Technology for Scripps Health in San Diego. I’ve known Marc for many years via Webiscope, and always look forward to his comments and insights. Marc is smart, witty and down to earth at the same time. What follows is some good,
common-sense advice from one of the pros in our industry.
Please introduce yourself
I’m Marc Needham, the Director of Web Technology for Scripps Health in San Diego. I’ve been with Scripps for two and a half years now. My work here is a mix of long-term web strategy planning, project work and the usual day-to-day politics of a large health care organization.
Tell us about Scripps and the department where you work.
Scripps Health is an amazing organization to work for. We’re a four hospital system spread across five campuses with 19 outpatient facilities all supported by almost 13,000 employees. We’re led by an award-winning executive team that have a great vision for the future of Scripps – one that I’m proud to support with the work we do on the web.
What got you interested in social media?
I think that I have always been interested in social media. One of my first web experiences was messing around on IRC into the wee hours of the morning back in 1994. The idea of frictionless interactions with other people really appeals to me and I’ve spent the last 15 years (dang that’s a long time) very actively participating in message boards and social media of some form or another.
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