Wordless Wednesday: look familiar?
Posted on 28. Sep, 2011 by CuriousScientist.
BA 2011 – To fly, to serve. It runs through everything we do Aurora 2008 – Your vision, our focus, through and through And whilst we have you, here’s a reminder of our newest advert. Eat your heart out BA. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Buzz it up Share on Linkedin [...]
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Wordless Wednesday: a warm welcome and big thank you
Posted on 21. Sep, 2011 by CuriousScientist.
Today Aurora welcomes it’s first #WordlessWednesday post with a picture of some beautiful flowers sent to us by one of our lovely clients. Thank you, they’re beautiful! For those of you who are new to the #WordlessWednesday concept, this is a trend which originally started on blogs and has now caught on to Twitter. Wordless Wednesday is all about [...]
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The cake competition continues…
Posted on 02. Sep, 2011 by balletfanatic.
The next entry to the Aurora client cake competition was gratefully received today. Angus brought us these beautiful little cupcakes from LOLA’s: These delightful little cakes swiftly disappeared, and are a worthy entry, thanks Angus! If you’re looking for cake-based inspiration check out the rest of the competition: Health Unlocked Tessa’s egg box cupcakes Berys homemade [...]
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Aurora top 20, August 2011 news analysis
Posted on 31. Aug, 2011 by msoadmin.
The London riots that spread across the UK dominated the news in August. Parliament was recalled, the police presence on London’s streets rose by 10,000 and communities were left devastated after a week of rioting. Perhaps it is no coincidence that alcohol, smoking and depression all made a big impact on the health news this [...]
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People have good ideas too
Posted on 23. Aug, 2011 by chiantichiara.
While the dust is settling on Tottenham, Clapham, Hackney, Brixton and the other areas worst hit by the recent riots, the public debate as to how we got to where we are today, and what can be done about it, still rages on. I remember saying to my boyfriend, as we watched the events unfold [...]
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Cheryl Cole, smelly socks and social media’s fight against malaria
Posted on 05. Aug, 2011 by CuriousScientist.
As yet another celebrity falls victim to the News of the World (NOTW) phone hacking scandal, rumours had Cheryl Cole’s fans outraged when the news hit twitter last week that her phone may have been bugged when she hospitalised with malaria last year. Having contracted the disease during a trip to Africa following her split [...]
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Aurora top 20, July 2011 news analysis
Posted on 29. Jul, 2011 by msoadmin.
It’s just one year to go until the Olympics arrive in London. Despite all the chatter about tickets, many people have managed to get their hands on at least a couple of tickets and the papers are filled with inspiring pictures of athletes. Meanwhile more and more of the Aurora team are getting back on [...]
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I have a dream
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by balletfanatic.
…where every doctor and every patient realises that they are partners in providing the best healthcare solution for the individual. At the recent Doctors 2.0 & You meeting, in Paris, it was revealed by Denise Silber, Basil Strategies, that just 31% of doctors globally currently see patients as partners in their own care. However the [...]
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Cookie monster?
Posted on 13. Jul, 2011 by neilcrump.
Many websites make the assumption that all of their visitors are fans of cookies, which are small text files that let a website improve their offering to you, e.g. when Amazon recommends a book based on your past searches. Most websites are probably giving you a few benign cookies which won’t detract from (and may [...]
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Spot the Curious Scientist
Posted on 12. Jul, 2011 by Barbados Princess.
Whilst the rest of the Aurora staff were celebrating Thursday night at our industry awards, (where we received a ‘highly commended’ award for Communiqué Small Independent Consultancy of the Year no less), our Rebecca was accompanying a family friend down the red carpet at the world premiere of HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART [...]
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Finding ‘healthy’ – Bupa launches first social media pledge campaign
Posted on 11. Jul, 2011 by CuriousScientist.
The start of last month saw the launch of Bupa’s new healthy social media campaign on Facebook. Aimed at improving people’s health and helping you find ‘healthy’; your fitness loving inner child, I’d like to congratulate you Bupa, I think you’ve done a great job. With 33 million UK Facebook users, and news earlier this [...]
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Aurora top 20, June 2011 news analysis
Posted on 01. Jul, 2011 by msoadmin.
It seems like the weather has forgotten that we’re in the midst of Wimbledon as the usual rain has given way to some lovely sunshine. This warm weather means thoughts are turning to the beach and swimsuits. The return of diet/weight loss to the top 20 chart suggests we’re all looking for a new way to [...]
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A snapshot from Doctors 2.0 and You
Posted on 28. Jun, 2011 by balletfanatic.
Gill here and this is my first blog post of a series inspired by the recent Doctors 2.0 & You conference that I attended last week in Paris. If you followed #doctors20 on twitter you might have noticed that I curated a tweet or two! So much was covered in the two days that I [...]
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They say a week in politics is a long time…
Posted on 15. Jun, 2011 by chiantichiara.
…and the past 48 hours has certainly proved that to be true. Within hours of the Future Forum announcing their recommendations further to the White Paper listening exercise, the Government has accepted the key changes and will make major concessions to the Health Bill. Although apparently not a ‘U-turn’, this is certainly is a major coup. [...]
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ihsms in bite size chunks part two
Posted on 13. Jun, 2011 by DiscoDave.
Welcome back to our second and final set of video highlights from the first GLOBALHealthPR International Healthcare Social Media Summit (#IHSMS) following from Friday’s post. In this final instalment we are going to explore: Social Framework™ implementation in high malaria prevalence countries Q&A Video 4 World Malaria Day 2011 impacted social media; this can be [...]
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So what is it that you do?
Posted on 10. Jun, 2011 by Shandy.
Last weekend I was introduced to one of my good friend’s new boyfriend. The conversation took the usual course and he politely asked, “So what is it that you do?” to which my friend of several years asked, “Yeah, what is it that you do?” Now, I don’t talk about work all the time but [...]
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ihsms in bite size chunks part one
Posted on 10. Jun, 2011 by neilcrump.
Following on from previous blog posts, we can now present to you the select video highlights from the first GLOBALHealthPR International Healthcare Social Media Summit (#IHSMS) that Neil and Aaron presented at three weeks ago. At the summit we demonstrated how our Social Framework™ methodology can be implemented to gain insight into social media discussions [...]
