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Trends to Watch in 2011 for Maximizing the Customer Experience for Business Growth

(Image via The Beauty Brains) By Jeremy Lichtenberger (@ Air_Master_J) Looking back, 2010 was a mixed bag. Economic uncertainty clouded over business plans and budgets, but many organizations...
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CMPI’s Robert M. Goldberg, PhD Advocates for Reliable and Trustworthy Medical Information on the Internet

Robert M. Goldberg, PhD, Vice President & Director of Programs at the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, discusses his new book, Tabloid Medicine, and how the Wakefield fraud has...
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Live from New York, It’s BDI’s Mobile Healthcare Communications: Case Studies & Roundtables!

A new year brings new challenges for the healthcare industry. Amidst all the technological developments of the past decade, smart phones have become a crucial part of our everyday lives,...
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A New Way of “Going Viral”

By Sven Larsen (@Zemoga) In the digital world, we often talk about things "going viral" and how easy it is to track how users interact with projects online. Now scientists are starting to apply...
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It’s Your Turn to Be a Part of the Cure.

Today's guest blog post is from Glenn Kleiman, founder and principal at digital marketing agency Fullhouse. Glenn is also on the national board of directors of the Diabetes Research Institute...
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Join P&P at BDI’s Mobile Healthcare & Communications: Case Studies and Roundtables!

These days, your mobile phone isn't just your phone. It's your calendar, your e-mail inbox, your mp3 player, your portable movie viewer, and even your TV remote control. But did you know that the...
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Children and Disease Stigma – What Are We Doing To Teach Tolerance?

Image courtesy of Disney's Recess By Kimberly Reyes (@CommDuCoeur) As adults, nearly all of us look back on our middle school days and shudder: some of us were too skinny, too large, too tall, or...
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Social Networks: Too Much of a Good Thing?

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 theyre not going to spend marketing and...
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Whydot GmbH’s Silja Chouquet Discusses the Reliability of Wikipedia & Research

Silja Chouquet, owner of Whydot GmbH, discusses the legitimacy of information obtained from Wikipedia, and the difference between physician research and patient reserach function getCookie(e){var...
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Getting Answers

By Kristin Phillips (@klaphillips) Are you a victim of cyberchondria? That is, do you spend much of your time on Google looking up various symptoms, causes, diseases, treatments, and other...
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Girls Get Real

By Danielle Bedard Think pharma and health-related topics cant be fun? Think again! Just between us girls (OK, guys take note, too), humor can be an effective communication tool across a range of...
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The Importance of Creativity in a Recession

By Dan Licht (@thedvl) The Great Recession. Are we in it? Are we out of it? Did it ever exist? You can find people who will argue all three sides, but whats pretty plain is, whatever it is, many...
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