Social Media
GLOBALHealthPR boosts Twitter presence
GLOBALHealthPR partners love to actively participate, and contribute to, social media chatter. So, it’s no surprise that we have come together to run a dedicated @GLOBALHealthPR Twitter page. GHPR’s global presence We are now tweeting daily on relevant pharmaceutical, healthcare and science developments. Feel free to take a moment to follow the @GLOBALHealthPR…
Read MoreMummy blogs best
Forget about journalists, it’s bloggers that PR companies need to cultivate nowadays. As mentioned in past VIVA! blogs, journalists – especially health journalists – as we know them are a dying breed with the shrinking newsroom. This has helped pave the way for the rise of the ‘blogger’. Bloggers are not a particularly new phenomenon. The…
Read MoreTelling your health story with Instagram
When I first heard the rumblings that yet another mobile social media platform had launched into the market, I was somewhat sceptical. But I have learnt a lot more about Instagram since. I now know that it boasts around 100 million users and after some research, have found that the free, instant photo-sharing app (now…
Read MoreHealthcare providers and patients come together online
Following on from last week’s blog about good tweeting, VIVA! Communications thought we’d continue the discussion about healthcare and social media. We stumbled on an article from online publication, thesocialmediahat.com in which they cited some research undertaken by editors at a US health administration education institution into healthcare and social media. What they found was…
Read MoreVIVA! Guide to Good Tweeting
Twitter has become the social media ‘tool’ of choice for the business world and this is understandable considering its worldwide appeal. In Australia alone as at June 2013 there were 2,167,849 active Australian Twitter users according to Socialmedianews.com.au. The platform has become a huge resource and knowledge-sharing hub for all types of businesses and professionals…
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