Category: Blog Administartion

I recently wrote about improvements to the KHPI website and summarized our progress over the past few years.  I announced that KHPI had a new Facebook Page, and that I was trying to learn how to use Twitter.  Amazingly, for as much as I love the digital life, I had virtually no prior experience with either platform. Today’s January 1 post can be considered my New Year’s resolution to try harder!

Here are links to KHPI’s pages on:

• Facebook, and
• Twitter

I am still tweaking the various buttons that let readers interact with KHPI and their own social media accounts. I am learning by doing.  You can help me. Note that you can now receive an email notice of new entries on this policy blog. Use the Subscribe form in the sidebar.

Peter

• Subscription and notification function.
• Spam protection & secure public comments.
• Confidential email to KHPI.
• Facebook and social media.
• Friendly URLs.

History of Health Policy Blog.
Although since the 1990s I had been informally using the name Kentucky Health Policy Institute for my first health policy research efforts, I registered the name as a Kentucky non-profit corporation in 2005. My first public internet presence was a relatively crude website in early 2007. Once I added a blog function to present material, I did very little with the khpi.org homepage that functions today only to hold “About Us” material and a Vision for Healthcare that I wrote in 1997 that still drives my thinking today. The old homepage also contains a button to enable PayPal contributions in support of our initiatives. (Except for my own initial “test” contribution, no one else has done so!) Continue reading “Progress Report and Recent User Improvements to KHPI Policy Blog.”

I am in the process of upgrading the site and its software.  Please excuse the dust and any intermittent lack of access.

As of August 6 I am still working on this. I had to repair all the links to images and documents.   I also hope to have a less generic header soon!  Managing a website has been a continual learning experience for me.  The new format and theme should allow us greater flexibility and security.

Peter Hasselbacher

I apologize for the hiatus in my entries which was probably a predictable consequence of my New Year’s resolution. I have a new and unbounded respect for journalists and commentators who turn out material regularly, week after week. I got sidetracked by an illness and death in my family, but so do the real journalists I admire.

It probably doesn’t make any difference anyway, because I may be the only one who reads these pages! I have no way of knowing how many people have visited the KHBI Website or Blog. To make it easier for you to contribute, I have relaxed the requirement to register in order to add comments. The anti-spam capabilities of WordPress (the software I use for this initiative) are pretty good. If things get out of hand, I can always reinstate registration. I only ask for civility. Inappropriate comments will be deleted.

Peter Hasselbacher, MD
June 13, 2011