Tag Archives: Twitter

Tweeting to Your Facebook: Why Pharma Is So Bad With Social Media

By Oriana Schwindt | Published: February 4, 2010
For those of you who didn’t know, it’s Social Media Week. Granted, the week is almost over, but the panel that you all care about didn’t take place until yesterday afternoon here in NYC. The panel’s mouthful of a name—“Navigating Social Media & New Technology in Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Industries”—is nevertheless an accurate description of the [...]
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Connect with a Click of the Mouse

By Brittany Agro | Published: October 28, 2009
Thanks to Google, Facebook, and Twitter, the Internet has become the e-Patient’s No. 1 destination for seeking health information, and industry was all “a tweet” about it at this year’s e-Patient Connections Conference. More than 250 people were in attendance for the two-day event, which included pharma marketers, brand managers, and patient education specialists who shared [...]
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Pfizer Joins Twitter Fray

By George Koroneos | Published: July 29, 2009
Image via Wikipedia The Internet was aflutter this week when word got out that Pfizer had taken the dive into Twitter, the micro blog site that’s being touted as the next big social media tool by some and a dying fad by others. Twitter works by allowing users to enter a 140-character-or-less tidbit of information on [...]
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Relationship Marketing Study Shows Breaks Down Online Drug Convo

By George Koroneos | Published: July 22, 2009
Ambien is a huger seller and has a massive presence online, as affirmed by a study from new media agency Razorfish measuring social influence marketing—the strength that peer influencers have on different brands—across several industries. The brands in the study were given a social influence marketing (SIM) score that measured two attributes—the total share of consumer [...]
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Novo Nordisk Launches Branded Twitter Campaign

By George Koroneos | Published: July 14, 2009
Novo Nordisk, last week, officially launched its branded Twitter site “Race with Insulin” to keep patients aware of the day-to-day happenings in the life of indie racer Charlie Kimball. Using the social networking tool, Kimball openly talks about what it’s like to live with Type 1 diabetes and tweets about using Novo Nordisk’s Levemir (insulin detemir) [...]
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