Media Relations

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

by Don Seamons on November 29, 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 [...]

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 [...]

HIStalk talks marketing, or, Are HIMSS news releases newsworthy?

11 March 2010

I caused a minor kerfuffle last month when I expressed my opinion about HIStalk’s advertising options. Mr. HIStalk took some exception when I wrote that Inga “claims to be female and sports a sultry avatar”. Here was his response: An online article suggests that perhaps Inga is a man writing as a woman. I couldn’t [...]

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Health care B2B marketing leaders, this blog’s for you

28 December 2009

As health care marketing leaders, we have similar challenges. I hope this blog will be valuable for you because it will be a seed-bed for growing your marketing department, for improving your standing within your organization, for helping you do your job a little bit better.

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