applying social media strategy for clinicians and researchers

Applying Digital Strategy

in Health

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Building anOnline Presence

in Health

Web 20moving from static webpages

to

dynamic shareable content amp social networking

characterised by facilitating communication

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The Big Myth Content is King

lsquoIf my site has great content it will be foundrsquo

Nope - you are one of a gazillion sites with good content

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Outbound marketing

Expensive

no-one takes much notice

Find customers through advertising

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Inbound marketing

The next few years look more like this

Customers find you

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Here are Some Stats

Ready

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Thatrsquos 400 million members70 of whom are outside

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httpwwwinsidefacebookcom20100201facebooks-january-us-traffic-by-age-and-sex-growth-led-by-young-women-grown-men-and-their-parents

Revenue for 2010 predicted to be over $1B

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lsquoThe Professional version of Facebookrsquo

60 million members11 Million members in Europe

200 countries

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85000 contributors

have written nearly

1000000 posts

in 6 months

httpenwikipediaorgwikiWikipedia

Wikipedia currently has over of 14m articles

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And creating a new website is easier and cheaper

itrsquos lsquoFreersquo HeidiAllenidau

A dayrsquos worth of content is uploaded every minute

The first YouTube video

Me at the zoo and shows one of the founders Jawed Karim at San Diego Zoo Uploaded on April 23 2005 YouTube blog March 2010 HeidiAllenidau

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75m users but only around 15m are active

40 have never sent a single Tweet

80 have tweeted fewer than ten times

httpthemetricsystemrjmetricscom HeidiAllenidau

60 of new twitter users drop out after the first month

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Yes yesthatrsquos all very impressive

Irsquom sure but

Irsquove yet to meet the client who found me through

tweeting

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Google Juice

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being found online and Social Media go

hand in hand

lsquoHow is Social Media being

used in Health and Research

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WikirsquosHeidiAllenidau

Hospitals

280 YouTube channels

382 Facebook pages

470 Twitter accounts

82 Blogs

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600 US Hospitals

YouTube Facebook Twitter Blogs

Access to Research vs

Original research gets more exposure through blogs

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Twitter is an Information Resource amp Search Engine

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Getting started httphlwikislaisubcca

Professional Social Media

Resources

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Professional Clinical

Consumer Choose an info source

Divide your networks into

and pick ONE for each HeidiAllenidau

Here are some examples

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Professional

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Clinical

Consumer Social Media

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Information sources to keep up to date and share

Feedly

Google Juice

YourWebsite

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Case studies

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Consumer amp

Clinician

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Result

Increase in sales during a period that normally has

down time

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BodyInMindcomauHeidiAllenidau

httpwwwgooglecomprofilesbodyinmindinfo

Google ProfileHeidiAllenidau

Discussing Serious Research

etc

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Analytics

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Google search - work in progress

Traffic from social media sites

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Clinician

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on each of these sites different groups of people can

read comment contact us

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each site has links back to BodyInMindcomau

we are being found

not by everyone but by those for whom we are relevant

Inbound marketing

So to make a startusing

Social Media Professionally

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YourWebsite

You might be aiming for this

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YouOnline

But start simple

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Digital Strategy Health and Publishing

contactHeidiAllenidau

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