Timely tips for entrepreneurial doctors - Make July your productive month!

I hope you are having a wonderful Independence Day celebration if you live in the USA --maybe you are lucky enough to be off work today. If not, perhaps you already have good memories of this weekend's barbecues, picnics, stirring patriotic music and fireworks!

We celebrated with some of each at the Hollywood Bowl's Fireworks Spectacular, which was a splendid success. I had to refrain from marching in my seat.

I have a few miscellaneous tidbits and morsels of news for you today. These are mostly focused on ways to increase your productivity as an entrepreneurial physician or medical practice business owner.

Especially as we have now entered the second half of 2010 -- in case I had to remind you!

1. Top 25 Android apps for healthcare professionals.
   
   This may sound like sacrilege to all you iPhone users, but I love my Android phone and appreciated Kelly Davis of A Hearty Blog sending me this list recently.
   The categories are Medical Reference, Diagnosis, Medications and Patient Care, and the apps range from free to paid.
   
   
2. Physician Website Secrets
   
   This is my other blog, and last week, I created a 5-part series on how to increase your website's "stickiness". Here is Part 5 of "How to entice visitors to stay longer on your medical practice website", with links to the prior 4 posts included.
   
   
3. Top Medical apps for the iPhone
   Okay - I give in. The fairness gene in me is insisting I share this with you.
   
   
4. RescueTime time tracking and time management software
   How often do you catch yourself idling time away with your web-surfing habits? Are you interested in knowing just how much time you spend on various activities on your computer? And better still, how to manage that time productively?
   
   RescueTime is a very cool tool that works in the background of your PC or Macintosh, watching and noting what you are doing (it doesn't nag!). You do not have to enter any data.
   You are then able to run reports that show how much time you spent doing what kind of activity, and decide if this was the best use of your time.
   
   Sounds gimmicky until you try to answer the questions that I am so often asked. Such as "Is it worth my time blogging?" and "How much time should I spend on Facebook/Twitter/social media marketing?
   
   I can now accurately say how much time my key marketing activities, blogging, tweeting, adding Facebook and LinkedIn updates and comments, and writing my monthly newsletter, take.
   
   Here is a quick summary, via the RescueTime FAQ page..
   
   And it is still all very much worth my investment of time!