Some interesting take-aways from Day One of the Social Media, Mobile & Gaming for Pharma Conference:
The significant investment (in both FTE and dollars) required to run social media programs led Eileen O’Brien (Siren Interactive) to comment that, “Social media is free like having a puppy is free.” As Elvis Costello says, “Accidents will happen.”
Katie White (Lundbeck) shared that part of her job is to “hold the line against marketing” relative to what social media should and should not be doing. Respect is earned. Katie, bar the door.
Laying claim to “the largest social media site on gout,” Gretchen Goller (PRA International) discussed the need for CROS to do more on social media to advance patient recruitment for both orphan products as well as for adaptive clinical trials for more common conditions. One question raised was how to make clinicaltrials.gov more of a social media proposition. Hm.
Crohn’s Disease activist Michael Weiss suggested that pharma companies send MSLs to participate on disease-specific social media sites. If these medical professionals are available to speak with physicians – why not with patients as well? Perhaps this is the first-ever composition for the Caronia Philharmonia.
After all, according to Claude Debussy, music is between the notes.
