It is now a few days since I’ve returned from the Roche Diabetes Care Social Summit and my inbox has been flooded with daily bursts from enthusiastic returning bloggers. There’s the sharing of all our blog posts as almost 29 people blogged about the conference, of course. And there’s everyone’s vote winging back and forth on the T-shirt in the works that Chris immediately went to work on to commemorate, I think not so much the working summit, but all of us meeting.
I’ve been flickered, tweeted, googled and just learned what (#) means. I used to think it stood for “number” but apparently I have been sleeping through the past several nanoseconds. It’s a “hashtag,” a way to combine tweets on the same topic. But you knew that, didn’t you?
This email below came in today from one of my fellow bloggers at the summit and I had to smile reading it as it reminded me that while for a few hours we were heralded as the Diabetes “A” Team, we are all only figuring it out ourselves as we go along, every day, day by day.
“A quick note to those of you on the bus from the (Roche) factory to the airport. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was having blood sugar issues on the ride. All I remember was a lot of talking and laughing. By the time I got to the gate, I was confused and didn’t know where I was. The next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor staring up at a group of airport employees, who trying to figure out “who is this crazy man, and why is he sleeping on my floor?” (I’m sure they thought I was drunk) After I muttered the word “diiiaaabetiiic”, a nice lady from behind the counter gave me some OJ. When I checked my blood, I thought my meter was malfunctioning. It read 38. I checked again, and my hypo event was confirmed. So…if I displayed any anti-social behavior on the bus, please forgive me.”
For those of you who’d like to read more accounts of this unprecedented event that Roche created here are a few of the many:
My Spin on the Roche/Diabetes Social Media Summit
Roche Hosts Diabetes Care Social Media Summit – A Meeting of the Minds
Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit: My Turn
Diabetes Social Media Summit: my thoughts
As you’ll notice we all represent a wide range of personalities, interests, opinions, activism, but with one central tenant: We all share living with diabetes in an attempt to help others and also help ourselves. Below my fellow bloggers’ photo are all their web blogs.
- That would be me
- Ginger Vieira
- Kelly Kunik
- Fran Carpentier
- Calpumper
- Kitty Castellini
- Sandra Miller
- Christel Marchand
- David Edelman
- Brandy Barnes
- Bennet Dunlap
- Lee Ann Thill
- Allison Blass
- Gina Capone
- Jeff Hitchcock
- Kerri Morrone
- Manny Hernandez
- Chris Bishop
- Amy Tenderich
- Kelly Close
- Christopher Thomas
- Scott King
- Bernard Farrell
- Scott Strumello
- George Simmons
- Scott Johnson
- William Lee Dubois
- David Mendosa
- Charlie Cherry
(A special thanks to Sandra Miller for typing up this list.)
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