While it’s safe to say social media now plays a major role in our lives, both at work and at home, we as pharma marketers still seem to be avoiding the adoption of these channels as part of our communication strategies.
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According to mydr.com.au, a website used by more than a million consumers every month to search on healthcare topics, almost 70% of consumers that search for ailments on its site are female.
We analysed the activity of Australian Doctor’s almost 7,000 fans to find out what stories got the most shares over the past four months. Our top story was a ‘dodgy doc’ one (yes, GPs are people too) and had a Facebook reach of almost 45,000!
Each year the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers creates the industry standard Internet Trends Report. It’s commonly known as the Meeker Report after the author, Mary Meeker.
The full report is 213 slides of mind blowing stats and info (we’ve embedded it at the bottom). If you want a shortcut though, here are my top 5 (and a bit).
Lauren Kress, Senior Content Manager and Jon Simmons, Creative Director
How to generate additional customer engagement out of an event is a question that almost every brand or agency team will wrestle with each year. This was also Pharmacy News’ challenge when covering the 2016 Australian Pharmacy Professional conference run by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. Building on success from the 2015 coverage, we took away many lessons from this year’s event. Here are two simple, but important ones.
Matt Rowley, Director – Content, Education and Events
With the pressure and gravity of their profession, it’s easy to assume that doctors don’t have the time or inclination to engage in social media.
Recent data shows that’s just not true.
In an online poll held across both Australian Doctor and Medical Observer late last year, we asked our logged in audience how often they engaged with Facebook and Twitter and received an impressive 1203 completions to the poll.