Health

"Social networking is altering the character of health care interaction, and health organizations that ignore this virtual atmosphere might be missing possibilities to interact customers."Which was the ominous and foerboding opening line from the pr release announcing the findings of the report made by the Research Institute (HRI) at PwC US.Anytime I begin to see the words "engage" and "missing" I'm instantly intrigued because as everyone knows it is all about engagement: ways to get engaged together with

This guest publish is as simple as Joey of 100waystowellness.com. Would you like to be considered a blogger? Or possibly you’re already a recognised authority inside your niche, having a great following along with a nicely designed website—congrats! Your contribution towards the wonderful realm of discussing understanding and knowledge is a lot appreciated. There's without doubt the dunia ngeblog is a huge place that’s packed with some very awesome people, but you probably know this: us writers have a

Did you know that Google is still a search engine? Despite what you might think from their advertisements and the coverage the press gives (guilty as charged) you might forget that Google is still more about search than it is about anything else. An addition to how the search engine leader handles health related searches reminds us that search is still an important part of this whole online game. It is even more vital as it relates to health issues since people would like to have at least the perception of

As part of the work I’m doing for my book, I’ve been working with my research manager, LeeAnn Prescott, staring at various charts and graphs related to how we’ve funded our “Commons” over the past half century or so. I’ve got a working hypothesis that we are in the process of transitioning very important portions of our “public lives” to private corporations, and that this transfer is related to our adoption of digital technologies and platforms. Examples

This guest post is by James Penn of AcceleratedNicheProfits.com. A few weeks ago, on the ProBlogger Community Boards, I started a new forum topic titled, “Help Me Monetize 1,000 Visitors Per Day.” My natural health blog had experienced some rapid traffic growth, and had grown from 80 visitors per day to over 1,000 visitors per day using these seven strategies.

It’s been six months since I launched my latest blog—FeelGooder—and today it’s entering a new phase, so I thought it might be time for a bit of an update. You might remember back in November we launched FeelGooder and I outlined some of the backstory here on ProBlogger. The blog was a slightly new approach to me for a number of reasons—partly because of the wide niche (it covers everything from health, to relationships, to finance, to social good), but also because I decided to launch without

One of the biggest issues holding the pharmaceutical industry back from greater participation in social media has often been the issue of presenting the product’s fair balance. For those not in the industry, fair balance is that long list of side effects  and warnings about a prescription drug (you know — that usually include diarrhea and constipation) that the FDA mandates the company include when they say what the drug actually does/is for (the indication).

As mentioned in last week’s column, this past weekend hosted the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.  Over just a few short days, members of the interactive community came together to discuss new technologies and trends, and this year we saw the introduction of health focused sessions in the world of social media. On the whole, I found the sessions to be filled with great content from people across different areas of the industry who are innovating in their areas

If you could have put all the people working in marketing at pharmaceutical companies together in a room today, you might have heard a collective sigh of disappointment. As many suspected for weeks or even months now, the FDA quietly confirmed that the long awaited guidelines for how to use social media for which they held a hearing in late 2009 won’t be coming this year and to expect them (perhaps) in Q1 of 2011. Earlier this month, however, the FDA did release a sweeping document that received much

Join us from 8-9:30 am on Tuesday November 16th at Ogilvy (Washington), 1111 19th Street NW, Washington, DC for a panel discussion and release of a new white paper on social media and public health, summarizing key best practices in social media engagement and measurement. You’ll learn about key developments in public health and social media, best practices for engagement, demographic trends relevant to public health and social media, and a new framework for measuring impact that goes well beyond