Pharma and Facebook: Connect, Attract and Promote

Silja Chouquet over at whydot pharma is an advocate of pharmaceutical companies using social media to improve patient outcomes.  She’s written a great post highlighting 3 ways pharma is using Facebook to:

  1. Connect current and ex- employees.
  2. Attract talent, including  student, intern and training program groups
  3. Promote disease awareness, including examples like:
    McNeil Pediatrics’ ADHD Moms (which I blogged about earlier),
    Novartis’ Zometa Marcia Strassman Takes Role as Patient Advocate, and
    Merck’s Gardasil Take a Step Against Cervical Cancer (by way of a comment posted by Jonathan Richman)

Facebook has matured into a robust social media platform for serious communications. Will it become a vital component of all  promotional campaign? What do you think?  Comments appreciated.

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