Tag Archives: Communities

Pharma and Social Media: There’s Nowhere to Hide

In this little microcosm of pharmaceutical marketing communications, we can get so focused on social media and the opportunities it could unfold that it can blind us to what really matters. We are...
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How Social is Your Healthcare Professional?

Surgeons are brilliant but cantankerous. Pediatricians are patient and easy-going. The idea that different medical professions attract different personalities is actually not only stereotypical -...
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Social Media – What Do You Bring to the Party?

By Guy Mastrion Open your Web browser¢‚Ǩ¬¶tweet your tweets, post to Facebook, flick on Flickr, show yourself on YouTube, link up on LinkedIn, and blog away¢‚Ǩ¬¶ wow, there are a...
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Cognitive Surplus-Using Digital Tools to Tap Hidden Resources

By Sven Larsen What is the largest untapped resource in your organization? In a recent article inMcKinsey Quarterly entitled "Six ways to make Web 2.0 work",Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor...
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Ten Steps to Finding Influential Patient Bloggers

image courtesy http://www.flickr.com/photos/robyn-gallagher/ / CC BY 2.0 By DJ Edgerton Welcome to the search for the Holy Grail, Digital-Age Edition. How do you find the blogs that really matter...
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Lessons from the Yugo – Social Media and Patient Outcome

By Guy Mastrion The consumer is not an idiot she is our medium. We have a lot to learn from social media. The new and powerful insights gleaned from this environment offer us fresh perspectives...
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Patient Communities in Social Media

Image courtesy of www.overlakehospital.org By DJ Edgerton If you knew that you needed to talk directly with a very specific type of person who made up a very small percentage of the overall...
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Finding Real Value in Social Media

image courtesy ofwww.biojobblog.com By Guy Mastrion We look to technology to help make our lives easier, to solve problems big and small, and today we are confronted by a huge economic crisis and a...
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