Public Relations

After meeting with with Hyland Software at last year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta, I’ve kept an eye on what they’re doing with social media. This year, I caught up with their Twitter account manager, Kaitlin Maurer, who gave me the details of her tweeting and blogging success. Check it out:

The year 2010 will go down in history as the year the United States passed health reform. It wasn’t as sweeping as many had hoped. And it went way too far for some people. But the fact of the matter is this: the country saw that the number of uninsured was unacceptable, and they passed [...]

Public relations is a constantly evolving discipline, and Health B2B PR is certainly part of today’s evolution. To provide insight into how our vertical fits into the broader changes happening in PR, I asked a good friend, Cyndee Holden, to share some of her insights. Cyndee is one of the most PR savvy professionals I [...]

I talk to a lot of health care B2B marketers, and most of them say that social media hasn’t matured enough to be a viable marketing tactic for their organizations. That may be true for their individual organization’s traditional marketing objectives. But social media still has a place in their marketing mix, and that place [...]

Four tips for developing publication-worthy case studies

29 November 2010

In my last post, I offered four tips for strengthening a health B2B workhorse: the news release. In this post, I’ll offer tips on strengthening another B2B PR workhorse: the case study. The news release is the medium for getting news out through the news media. But the case study is the medium for sharing [...]

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Four tips for writing search optimized news releases

27 November 2010

In the field of health B2B public relations, the way I see it, there are two workhorses: news releases and case studies. Today, I’ll share some opinions about news releases; tomorrow, we’ll move to case studies. It used to be that news releases were just that: a way to release news about your organization to [...]

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In November, Health B2B Marketing is all about Health B2B PR

5 November 2010

When I was a year or two out of college and working in public relations, I remember going to some local PRSA gatherings and listening to PR students in the room introduce themselves. Invariably, there was always one or two students who stood up and announced that they were getting into the PR field because [...]

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