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Entries from November 30th, 2010

Holiday Wish List

November 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion

By Krissy Goelz (@krisgoelz)

Maybe you’re not still making your wish list with a crayon, flipping through the Sears catalog anymore – but you never do get too old to make your list every year, do you?
I make mine every December, although I have to admit that my list includes lots of things that the ten-year-old [...]

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Making Magic – With Doctors, Social Media, and Rules?

November 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion

Photo courtesy of Forbes.com
By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)

Sometimes we get so focused on social media guidelines for ourselves as Pharma marketers that we don’t always notice when something very interesting happens, and our neighbors set up some guidelines of their own….which is precisely what the American Medical Association has done.  Here’s a little summary for you:

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Attention to Detail

November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion

By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur)
Over the last year, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Depomed have each dealt with product recalls of musty-smelling drugs. The smell was caused by tribomoanisole, a chemical used to keep wood preserved and flame-retardant, leaching through the bottles when they were stored packed on treated wooden pallets. The pharmaceutical industry’s manufacturing processes, [...]

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Things to be Thankful For

November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion, Trends

By Jason Brandt (@JasonDMG3)
Your house is overflowing with little handprint turkeys, construction-paper Pilgrim hats, and grocery bags full of pureed pumpkin, pecans and crescent rolls. Visions of long naps in front of afternoon football, after early mornings in front of giant balloons, are dancing in your head. It’s that time of year again. And at [...]

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Embedding

November 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion

Image courtesy of Dvice
By DJ Edgerton (@wiltonbound)
Here’s a recent social-media post you may have missed: “5 Trends That Will Shape the Next Few Years of Social Media” by David Reinhardt for The Next Web.
Who doesn’t love a list post? It’s the No. 1 most retweeted type of post internationally.
And a prognosticating post? That’s the No. [...]

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Lemonade Life’s Allison Blass Talks About Patient Activists and Engaging with Healthcare/Pharma Companies

November 18th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Knowledge, News

Back at Digital Pharma East, Pixels & Pills interviewed Allison Blass, author of the blog Lemonade Life, “the adventures of a twenty-something with Type I Diabetes living in New York.”
We took some time to talk to Allison about patient activism and social media, patient dialogue with healthcare companies, and what she hopes to accomplish by [...]

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Social Networks: Too Much of a Good Thing?

November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion

This is your brand on social media.
By Sven Larsen (@zemoga)
Back in the late summer-early fall, we saw several major consumer-product brands decide that they’re not going to spend marketing and digital-media funds on their own brand websites anymore. They’ve chosen to take down their activity to just maintenance on those properties. All new activities are [...]

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Katie Couric Sits Down With Pixels & Pills To Talk About Stand Up 2 Cancer

November 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Knowledge, News

Katie Couric discusses her Clio Award win for the Stand Up 2 Cancer campaign, bringing together the community, recruiting celebrities, honoring the scientists, and working together towards finding a cure.

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BRUNNER’s Steve Farrar & Jackie Murray Explain the Road to Winning A Clio

November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Knowledge, News

Steve Farrar & Jackie Murray talk about the work they did to promote the Rockford Health System’s DaVinci Surgical Robot.

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GSW’s Phil Deschamps and Bruce Rooke Talk About How CLIO Brings Prestige to Healthcare and Entering the Digital Age

November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Knowledge, News

Phil Deschamps, President & CEO of GSW, along with Bruce Rooke, Chief Creative Officer of GSW, talk about GSW’s involvement with the CLIO Awards, and how the changing industry landscape has impacted the event

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