This looks really intersting. Anyone with a focus on health and wellness should consider applying/attending given Wikipedia's importance in health/wellness information consumption. See below.
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Wikimania 2012, the annual international Wiki (Wikipedia) conference, is taking place July 12-15, 2012 in Washington, DC.
This looks very interesting. Please feel free to apply or pass this on to someone you know.
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Internship Description
The Harmony Institute has a paid technology internship position for Spring 2012. The Institute seeks a technology intern to work in: data research and visualization, web and software development, and interaction design. The position requires a commitment of 2 days per week from January – May 2012.
Qualified applicants should have solid coding, technical architecture, and technology research experience.
Duties include:
A few months ago Visible Technologies, a social media analytics firm, released a study examining the prevalence of drug side effect or adverse event conversations in social media content. This research is important because many pharmaceutical companies have cited fears of adverse events as a major reason for not engaging more aggressively in social media marketing.
Writing master and evangelist for clear health communications Meredith Gould has a mantra: "kill your copy pets."
What?
Yes, she advocates killing copy pets, those words and sentences we believe are clever and witty, but rarely make for excellent prose.
We're excited to announce the launch of a new resource we're developing focusing on advanced marketing and measurement techniques such as cross-channel marketing. We've also included our very popular article on transmedia storytellling in this new series.) We think this new series is going to be well-received by the health marketing communications community. We've got several articles in the series planned and developed, but we'd love to hear your ideas for wh
A few weeks ago we released an infographic titled, "What You Need To Know: Facebook, Prvacy and Health", which was supported by a 30+ page report we published, "Just Between Us: Facebook, Privacy and Health".
Today an article in the marketing publication Media Post appeared focusing on the "Pepsi Refresh" effort. Briefly, Pepsi Refresh is a project launched by Pepsi to provide financial support for a range of charitable initiatives. To date, Pepsi considers the effort a success, telling the Wall Street Journal that the cause marketing project has raised awareness of and
After years of holding back, the health industry has thoroughly embraced digital communications, mobile and social media. Much of this activity has been fueled by the rise of the "empowered e-patient," individuals who are using the Web and (in smaller numbers) mobile to research, consume and share health information. Currently, many in the U.S., Canada and Europe are using the Web for health purposes.
Late last month, Forrester released data indicating that the numbers of social media content creators was declining. Specifically, the percentage of people writing blogs, creating videos or producing music is dropping.
Dear all,
Outside the U.S. and a few countries, DTC advertising of prescription-only medicines is strictly prohibited. Pharma companies are therefore limited to disease awareness campaign. The buzz is all around social media but what type of outake and outcomes can pharma companies realistically expect in patient-centric communities? I am usually hearing the following:
- Disease awareness: hoping more people will get diagnosed => more patients => more products sold
