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CMOs Easy Guide to Social Media (Color Coded Blocks!)

Dreading that conversation about the benefits of EverTweet over TweetMe?  Embarrassed because you aren’t sure what Google Analytics Funnels really mean?  Or work?  

Memorize this color-coded social media guide (or just hang it on your wall) and you’ll be a CMO with Social Media savvy in an instant.  (Green is for Good! and Red is for “What are You Doing?!!) 

It’s hanging on my wall already.  Thanks to the CMO.com blog for development.  CMO-SOCIAL%20LANDSCAPE-R5

BRSocial Media Club Call for Speakers

Know a social media expert who is willing to teach tips/techniques/trade secrets?  Someone who might be interested in sharing some SocMe love in big Baton Rouge this fall?  Here’s the doc, please share the word,  far and wide.  Call is over May 1st, so don’t put this one off.

BR Soc Me Call for Speakers Fall 2010

Int’l PRSA Conference Tips #41-50 – Healthcare Social Media Highlights

From Sphere of Influence of Key Opinion Leaders In Health Care Social Media presentation

Presented by Rachelle Spero and Hyung Han

41. 85% of consumers start at search in order to find health care information, 66% of Gen X read blogs

42. 100,000 physicians are logging into Sermo

43. 216 Hospitals have a social media presence

    126 YouTube Channels

    83 Facebook Pages

    132 Twitter Accounts

    23 blogs

Several sources from TechCrunch to eMarketer to Pew Internet Study 2009 to ePharma Physician v8.0 study.

Specific references available at lstansbury1@gmail.com

44. Digital media influencers for healthcare include: Continue reading

Why Did Huffington Showcase Heath Plan Shill?

Arianna!  How could you?  

I expected a wonderful presentation – millions of monthly visits to a Web site says a lot about your ability to capture an audience’s attention, and Arianna Huffington’s opening key note presentation to the Public Relations Society of American today at 2009 International Conference in San Diego didn’t fail to deliver.    But it was marred by an odd interview-type confessional by someone who was once a leader in corporate public relations, and is now testifying to all who will listen about unethical tactics he engaged in while employed by Humana. 

She started out by berating the media a bit for its senseless coverage of issues such as the recent Balloon Boy story.  “With all the homeless children in the world needing help, maybe we should just put them in a balloon (a la the Balloon boy story last month), and maybe we could finally get some media attention, ” she quipped in an accent reminiscent of Zsa Zsa Gabor.   In another zinger, pondering on the state of social media blogging today, she added “we can all now have our own opinions.  That’s good.  But we really can’t all have our own facts… Continue reading