Archive for May, 2010
Slip, slap, slop this summer
Posted on 31. May, 2010 by Claire.
The jokey image of the Englishman in summer, with a handkerchief on his head and painful looking sunburn is obviously an all too common reality. Today’s news that skin cancer is killing more men than women comes as no surprise. Not only are men not used to slathering themselves in creams like women, but they [...]
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Facebook ease the setting of privacy
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
We sent this tweet last night: @PhilBaumann Zuckerberg was on BBC main news re change to FB privacy settings http://ow.ly/1Qmlh ^NC #hcsmeu #hcsm We would encourage you to check your Facebook privacy settings now that it is easier to undertake. Make sure you have your privacy set to meet your requirements: whether you want to lock it [...]
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Challenge of in-house knowledge sharing
Posted on 23. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
Internal communications and sharing of information is a huge challenge. I run an agency and it is often really challenging to share information around a team of people all sitting in the same open plan office. As you highlight for siloed global pharma it presents an enormous challenge. If this could be harnessed effectively just [...]
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World Cup fever begins in Camden
Posted on 23. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
The World Cup is back and last Friday saw Team Aurora draw our teams in a sweepstake. Our office is full of football lovers and even those not all that bothered by football (like me) will be drawn in. This brilliant Nike advert sums up beautifully what the World Cup is all about. This is [...]
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Happy birthday YouTube
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
YouTube is five years old. When I heard the news I thought only five years! It is hard to remember a world without it. This celebratory video is great, full of Brits and our monarch. It also has the ‘Charlie bit my finger’ clip which I love. Enjoy a whole five years of nostalgia! Bookmark [...]
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GUEST POST: Straight talking on NHS funding
Posted on 18. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
We asked Jamie Holyer, MD of our public affairs partner Advocate, to assess the first few days of government and forecast what this means for medicine funding. Here is what he had to say… After what has been one of the most interesting few weeks in Westminster that anyone can remember the stark reality of the [...]
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A dog’s life for NHS funding
Posted on 13. May, 2010 by Claire.
Our new Tory Liberal coalition Government has today announced their health policy, the focus of which is to maintain NHS spending with real term increases. The media reports that this will keep the budget in line with inflation at the current £100 billion annual spend. So as anticipated, the NHS will no longer grow at [...]
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Our friends from around the world
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
We have just returned from Paris having stepped off the Eurostar. We had a great annual general meeting of GLOBALHealthPR, our network. It was great to catch-up as well as share best practice. Amazing work is being undertaken at both a local, regional and global level by our partners. Our French partner host Marie-Helene and her team looked [...]
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G13 summit in Paris
Posted on 05. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
Claire, Neil and Sarah have just arrived in Paris for the GLOBALHealthPR AGM. We get to meet up with our thirteen network partners from around the world and catch up on all the gossip. Neil Crump Managing Director Aurora Posted via email from auroracomms’s posterous Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz [...]
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HealthBlawg: Fake Facebook profiles and other portents of the end times
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
To fake anything in the health arena (even with clear disclaimers), especially a product or service of real health benefit, is just dumb and unlikely to work. In this case the proof is in the number of ‘likes’, of which there are 57 today, hardly a rip roaring success! At 12:30 CET on 1 May [...]
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Committee no, team yes
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by neilcrump.
This is a Jack Daniel’s ad I saw this week on the platform at Warren Street Tube. Totally agree with the sentiment about committees. Monuments can however be built to teams. Posted via email from auroracomms’s posterous Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Buzz it up Share on Linkedin [...]
