About a week ago, I posted a study to our NewsHub about which communications discipline “owns” social media. The research, which was published by the California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, was fascinating because it found that public relations is winning the social media budget battle.
The money statistic from the study: “One-quarter (25.4%) of [...]
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Earlier this week, iMedia Connection published a fantastic article by Rob Key of Converseon with the provocative title: “Why we need to kill ‘social media.’” Key was not focused on semantics. Rather, he believes that too many companies, individuals and marketers are focusing on digital tactics rather than the “transformational nature of this channel.” He [...]
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Last year, Silja Chouquet of WhyDotPharma and Andrew Spong of STweM launched a unique pan-European initiative designed to “explore and highlight how social media could revolutionize healthcare by increasing patient focus, improving access to services and gathering high quality patient outcome data.” They launched a twitter conversation community, #hcsmeu, that currently boasts an active global [...]
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This post is part of a blog series focusing on successful health marketing campaigns using multiple communications disciplines and media channels. If you have a campaign we should highlight, let us know.
Like many of you, I applaud the use of social media in health promotion. I very rarely find a user-generated campaign to criticize.
However, I recently saw [...]
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Earlier today, John Cass and Toby Bloomberg led a fantastic conversation focusing on social media transparency for our Casual Conversation Webinar series (click here for my original post on the session).
During the Webinar we discussed a range of issues, including:
Should there be gray areas when it comes to transparency in health social media?
Can transparency (or [...]
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