Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Eric Obenzinger, Setting PR for Google

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

To link to post: http://bit.ly/W1uMI

Eric Obenzinger, an Associate for Global Communications & Public Affairs at Google, discusses the general rules for getting a high ranking on a Google search. Recorded at the ExL Pharma Communications Conference at Pfizer’s World Headquarters, Eric discusses his challenges setting PR for Google.

Some of Eric’s Vlog Views:

“Whatever the venue, have content that is discoverable and interesting and the people will want to read, and therefore will link to…Google will favor pages that other people are actually interested in and the main signal, among others, is whether people are linking to your page.”


The ExL Pharma Communications Conference Series:

Julie Zawisza, FDA

Julie Zawisza, FDA

Sally Susman, Pfizer

Sally Susman, Pfizer

John Bell, Ogilvy

John Bell, Ogilvy

Eric Obenzinger, Google

Eric Obenzinger, Google

Rick Wion on the Value of Thinking Inside the Box

Friday, July 24th, 2009

To link to post: http://bit.ly/VCP2d

Rick Wion, Vice President of Interactive Media at GolinHarris worked with McNeil Pharmaceuticals to develop their two ADHD Social Media sites: ADHDMoms and ADHDAllies. He talked about how to work within the regulatory environment at the BDI Social Communications Healthcare Conference.

“We setup a triage process for setting up comment approvals. When a comment goes in, a notification goes out via email to wait to be reviewed and then it goes through the AE [adverse even] reporting procedure. The AE team looks at it to see if it is an AE? If not then it goes to legal and regulatory for review and finally to the person who is in charge of AE’s page who flips a button to turn it live.”

Congressman Harry Mitchell (D) Arizona

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Congressman Harry Mitchell discusses the need for the Department of Veterans Affairs to use PR to expand the number of veterans it reaches.

“Change is coming to the VA. After three years of historic funding, the VA offers access to new educations benefits, housing assistance and top notch quality health care and much more…One of the most widespread and pressing problems may no longer be deficient care for veterans, but a lack of clear coordinated outreach to tell them what is available. The VA estimates that out of 25 million living veterans, fewer than 8 million are enrolled in VA programs.”

T. Boone Pickens at the WINDPOWER 2009 Conference

Monday, May 11th, 2009

While working for AWEA, the American Wind Energy Association, I had a chance to interview T. Boone Pickens on the role of Windpower in “The Pickens Plan” and his take on the WINDPOWER 2009 Conference & Exhibition. His view was “Wind is number one.” Here’s one of his comments on the conference.

“It’s a fabulous conference, biggest wind conference I’ve ever seen. I’m telling you if it doesn’t go forward, there are going to be some really sad people, me included. And I gotta tell you, it’s gonna work.”

For video series of the conference go to www.awea.org/windpower2009/webisodes.

For more on the Pickens Plan go to http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan/