HealthLeaders Media Marketing Weekly - April 14, 2010 | How Tweeting and Friending Can Benefit Doctor-Patient Communication
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How Tweeting and Friending Can Benefit Doctor-Patient Communication
Marianne Aiello, for HealthLeaders Media
Should you Facebook friend your doctor? Patients friending doctors and vice versa is more than a moral dilemma—it's a public relations one. Seeing as how I'm a millennial and a big proponent of Twitter, WordPress, Facebook, instant messaging, or any other online information-sharing media, you may think I'd be in favor of unchecked doctor-patient friending. Well, you'd be wrong. [Read More] |
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Healthcare organizations plaster new ball park with ads
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Medica, and The Mayo Clinic each have prominent signage in the Minneapolis Twins' new Target Field, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And we're not just talking billboards—Blue Cross has branded first-aid stations, Medica has clever signs outside of the main gates that say things such as, "You are one city block from your first stadium dog," and Mayo has a great deal of in-stadium signage and is a corporate sponsor of the Twins. Well, if the home team loses, at least fans will know where to go to treat their heartbreak. [Read More]
Social network use doubles in past two years
Nearly half (48%) of Americans age 12 and older have a profile on one or more social networking Web sites, double the level from two years ago (24% in 2008), according to the new national survey from Arbitron and Edison Research. The study also shows that although 78% of teens and 77% of 18- to 24-year-olds have personal profile pages, so do 65% of people aged 25-34, and 51% of 35- to 44-year-olds. Social networkers are also avid users, with 30% of those with a profile on at least one social networking Web site using those sites "several times a day," compared with only 18% doing so one year ago. [Read More]
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Campaign Spotlight
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Children's Campaign Makes Each Child a Hero
Shortly after launching Children's Hospital and Medical Center's "Our Stories" campaign, marketers received a call from a local dance studio. The dancers were inspired by an ad that featured a young ballerina with severe brittle bone disease and wanted to hang it in the studio because it inspired them to dance their hearts out. The ad was one of many patient testimonials in Children's "Our Stories" campaign, which won a 2009 HealthLeaders Media Marketing Award. [Read More] |
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