Did peer pressure have anything to do with your decision to vote in the 2012 Presidential election? If you answered yes, that may be due to the engagement of behavioral scientists, who are becoming increasingly important advisors to political campaigns. That’s a key take away from this November 12 New York Times story, which describes [...]
Posts Tagged 'audience engagement'
Do the Right Thing: Social Norming to Get Out the Vote
Dec 07
by Chris Beakey
Category: Behavior Change, Social Marketing
Caregivers: An Important Audience for Many Social Marketing Efforts
Oct 19
by Chris Beakey
Category: Social Marketing
My mom and dad had been married for 50 years when she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2009. She was a youthful, beautiful and fit 69 year-old, so the diagnosis was a heartbreaking shock to everyone in my small, close-knit family. Over the course of 24 hours my dad went from [...]
The Changing Patient Pharma Relationship
Apr 26
by Holly Campbell
Category: Social Media
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 [...]
Social Media Week Event Wrap Up: The Impact of Social Media in Healthcare
Feb 15
by Lauren Belisle
Category: Behavior Change, HCSM, Ogilvy Washington, Social Marketing, Social Media
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 [...]
This is Not About Cancer: How do we get consumers interested in their health?
Jan 19
by Karen Melnyk-Vutrano
Category: Behavior Change, Public Health, Resources, Social Marketing
Cancer: Everything causes it and a cure is always further away than we hope.
Public health graduate studies led me to believe (initially) that all public health is about cancer. Though these days I try to worry less about cancer (only because there are so many professional worriers—those whose life pursuit is the cure for cancer), [...]
Personal Communication Still Drives Word of Mouth on Causes
Jun 15
by Jennifer Wayman
Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Ogilvy Washington, Research + Insights, Social Marketing, Social Media
Quiz of the day: What is the most typical way in which people tell others about social issues and causes they want them to get involved with?
a) In person
b) Over the phone
c) Via text messages
d) Via social networking messages and invites
e) Via personal emails or email forwards
The answer: a) in person!
New findings from the Dynamics [...]
How alike and different are Caucasians, African Americans and Hispanics when it comes to supporting causes?
May 31
by Jennifer Wayman
Category: Corporate Social Responsibility, Media, Ogilvy Washington, Social Marketing, Social Media
How alike and different are Caucasians, African Americans and Hispanics when it comes to supporting causes?
Our latest release on the study Dynamics of Cause Engagement revealed interesting similarities and differences in how people of different ethnicities engage with causes.
Among the most interesting findings is the fact that social media play a greater role in cause [...]
Still proving the value of CSR?
May 26
by Sarah Temple
Category: Best Practices, Corporate Social Responsibility
A new study released by Tuck Business School at Dartmouth looks at whether CSR provides financial benefit to companies, specifically within the grocery retail industry, by looking at four dimensions of CSR and how they impact positive perceptions and whether consumers modified their purchase behavior based on these perceptions.
The study’s hypothesis was based on a [...]
Women Are Strongest Believers in the Power of Supporting Causes
May 17
by Jennifer Wayman
Category: Behavior Change, Research + Insights, Social Marketing, Social Media
This post was originally posted to Ogilvy PR’s Womenology blog.
A recent study conducted by Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in partnership with the Center for Social Impact Communication at Georgetown University revealed the importance of supporting causes for women in the U.S.
8 in 10 women believe that supporting causes creates a sense of purpose and meaning [...]
Using Games in Social Marketing
Apr 19
by Megan Yarmuth
Category: Behavior Change, HCSM, Social Marketing
I recently had the privilege of attending a George Washington University Health Communication and Marketing symposia on Social Marketing and Games. It’s a topic that has seen significant growth in recent years, and being a big Scrabble nerd and Wii Just Dance buff, I had particular interest in. Whether using board games, video games, or [...]
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