Archive for the Social Media Category

5 Links to Help You Navigate Government Social Media Guidelines

May 15

Navigating government social media guidelines can be tricky since there are so many different components to consider, so I wanted to share 5 links that help me advise my clients and comply with the guidelines.
1. Apps.gov- Apps.gov lists all the approved social media sites and tools that have Terms of Service agreements with the government. [...]

Pass First–On and Off the Court

May 08

North Carolina Tar Heels are super passionate about their college basketball team.  (Case and point: the season is over and I’m still talking about it.)  So when North Carolina point guard Kendall Marshall–the nation’s leading assist man–announced he had a fractured wrist shortly after his team’s advancement to the Sweet 16, many ardent fans–myself included–felt [...]

The Changing Patient Pharma Relationship

Apr 26

I came across an intriguing post on Pharmalot about a woman dying of Stage 4 breast cancer who used YouTube to plead with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow her access to pertuzumab, an investigational cancer drug. The video featured the woman, Diane Gant, reading several letters for her son, since she does [...]

What’s the difference between social media and social marketing?

Feb 24

Last week, Ogilvy launched Social@Ogilvy, a global, cross-discipline team of social experts from across all of Ogilvy’s businesses delivering social solutions. Social media is changing our clients’ businesses and we have been quietly building the largest social media marketing communications network in the world.
This exciting news has sparked some discussion and questions about terminology: [...]

Quantified Self: Is self-tracking the future of behavior change?

Feb 23

I spend a lot of time testing, tracking, and analyzing data. I’m not talking about the work I do here at Ogilvy–I’m talking about all of the daily efforts I undertake to manage my Type 1 diabetes.  My life is full of numbers and tech gadgets, from a meter to test my blood glucose to [...]

Will You Be My Valentine? Only If You Wash Your Hands

Feb 16

Valentine’s Day is over – as shown by the discounted boxes of candy, wilting flowers, and picked-over rows of red greeting cards. What’s not quite finished is the flu season.
I recently came across a Valentine’s Day-themed e-card from the American Public Health Association. The text reads: “I wanna hold your hand. But only after you [...]

Social Media Week Event Wrap Up: The Impact of Social Media in Healthcare

Feb 15

This morning we welcomed more than 100 social media and health enthusiasts to the Ogilvy Washington office for our social media week panel, The Impact of Social Media in Healthcare.
The panelists and audience discussed many facets of the same challenge: leveraging social to improve health.

A few highlights and common threads throughout the morning:

Using online [...]

Utilizing Digital Channels to Reach Those “‘80s Babies”

Feb 07

This blog post was co-written by Debra Noll, Account Director, Ogilvy Social Marketing.

Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation (or Millennials), Generation Next, “eighties babies,” describes the demographic cohort following Generation X, generation born after the Western post-World War II baby boom ended. Millennials generally describes those born in the 1980s and early 1990s. [...]

Ogilvy Washington Social Media Week Events on healthcare and more

Feb 03

You might think that after the Super Bowl there’s nothing to look forward to until President’s Day weekend – but you would be wrong!  Washington, DC is one of 12 cities worldwide hosting Social Media Week from February 13-17 and Ogilvy Washington would love to see you at one of our events.
In social marketing and [...]

To Blog or to Tweet, that is the question…

Jan 06

My apologies to Shakespeare, but the recent The Year in News 2011 put out by The Pew Research Center for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) is helping me answer that question. PEJ has been putting out their analysis for five years and it is an excellent tool to help us media relations professions better understand what’s [...]