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seriously. i can't get a hospital to show up in google maps... no human for me to talk to. HN is number 4 instead of 1 google page one, they're right on it.

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petercooper 15y ago
This is why I don't understand the anti-promotion crowd who think promoting oneself and building an audience is a bad thing. Having the implicit threat of an audience you can address is a major lever to getting decent service nowadays.
- davidw 15y ago
  I'm certainly not against promoting myself where I think some attention is merited, but ultimately that kind of thing is close to a zero sum game in that the amount of 'famous' people is fairly limited.
Mamady 15y ago
Bad PR always seems to get instant action - it's more damage control than anything else. If you have an audience, you have PR power.
officemonkey 15y ago
Which hospital? Seems like this thread has at least one pair of google-eyeballs looking at it.
- metaprinter 15y ago
  i'd rather not drop the name here. but it's a verified listing and i've used the "report a problem" 3 times now. If they're not checking that... :(
kenjackson 15y ago
You can fix this yourself. In the lower-right corner of Google Maps there is a tiny link that says, "Edit in Google Map Maker". Click this link and you can edit Google Maps. Your edits get sent to Google and they'll approve/deny it in typically a few days.
- metaprinter 15y ago
  it's a verified listing (do you know hard it is to convince the IT dept to take their automated phone system offline so i could verify a google maps listing? It was nuts and no google didn't offer the postcard method) so i don't see why i have to enter the same info again, but i did. the listing only shows up if you type the exact name of the hospital into the search bar, which is useless.

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seriously. i can't get a hospital to show up in google maps... no human for me to talk to. HN is number 4 instead of 1 google page one, they're right on it.

by metaprinter 15y ago

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petercooper 15y ago
This is why I don't understand the anti-promotion crowd who think promoting oneself and building an audience is a bad thing. Having the implicit threat of an audience you can address is a major lever to getting decent service nowadays.
- davidw 15y ago
  I'm certainly not against promoting myself where I think some attention is merited, but ultimately that kind of thing is close to a zero sum game in that the amount of 'famous' people is fairly limited.
Mamady 15y ago
Bad PR always seems to get instant action - it's more damage control than anything else. If you have an audience, you have PR power.
officemonkey 15y ago
Which hospital? Seems like this thread has at least one pair of google-eyeballs looking at it.
- metaprinter 15y ago
  i'd rather not drop the name here. but it's a verified listing and i've used the "report a problem" 3 times now. If they're not checking that... :(
kenjackson 15y ago
You can fix this yourself. In the lower-right corner of Google Maps there is a tiny link that says, "Edit in Google Map Maker". Click this link and you can edit Google Maps. Your edits get sent to Google and they'll approve/deny it in typically a few days.
- metaprinter 15y ago
  it's a verified listing (do you know hard it is to convince the IT dept to take their automated phone system offline so i could verify a google maps listing? It was nuts and no google didn't offer the postcard method) so i don't see why i have to enter the same info again, but i did. the listing only shows up if you type the exact name of the hospital into the search bar, which is useless.