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James J. Spina
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Jacqueline Micucci
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Gloria Nicola
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Andy Karp
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Melissa Arkin
Associate Editor

10/30/2007 Guess Who I Saw OnLine?
Posted by 20/20&U Blog Admin
Location: Blogs2020&U
 		    
Rightfully so, considering the scenario of any sort of publishing these days, our publisher Jim Vitkus is very antsy about getting some responses from the optical community about day-to-day online habits.

As you must be aware every aspect of magazine publishing is now critically impacted by an on-line presence that rivals print in every way from readership to revenue and this very moment is, in fact, just the veeeery long beginning.

“Like it” or “What?” the presence of Internet related aspects of everything optical grows deeper in its web relationship daily. And that’s no different be it medical, technical, fashionable, lab-able or retail-able.

There’s software assaulting you daily with promises of a practice made easy. There’s the essence of communication with labs and vendors and patients and customers and education. There’s you staring at a computer and embracing the buzz or stepping aside and saying “Enough!” Not me. I’m done. I don’t do it that way. What in the world does this have to do with eyewear?

Well, that’s what we want to know.

What does it have to do with you? Do you increasingly turn to the Internet and your computer? Has that screen become your key to the quest for better vision? Do you text message? Do you look like a geek Blackberrying at a lunch counter?

Do U? R U? 2020&U wants to know. Or is that …“No”?     

—James J. Spina, 20/20 Editor in chief
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Re: Guess Who I Saw OnLine?
By Patty Oehrlein		 11/5/2007
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Hi PLU's! (people like us)
IMHO (in my humble opinion) SOL (sooner or later) we will all have to communicate in some form of electronic talk, but F2F (face to face) will never be substituted. WRT (with regard to) on line ordering, the accounts I work with find it saves time and money and @TEOTD (at the end of the day) who can argue with that. We need to T+ (think positive) and DV8 (deviate) from our comfort zones , TSTB (the sooner the better) B4 (before) it's 2L8 (too late).

AAP (always a pleasure)

Patty Oehrlein
TSO (Tri-Supreme Optical)

As far as the the text goes- SICNR (sorry I could not resist)
Re: Guess Who I Saw OnLine?
By Shadyal		 11/6/2007
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Patty, I couldn't have said it better myself! Knowing most of the abbreviations puts me in that plu, but I ? myself as to my use of them...
Re: Guess Who I Saw OnLine?
By Barry Santini		 11/9/2007
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Well, I've been told that I'm "nuts" using my reall name online (instead of an avatar). So what if I make a bonehead statement...I do that every day in some way or another.
I like the fact that people *know* who I am. And I do like to communicate via the web.

Barry

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