Despite the importance that has been placed on Twitter’s role during the 2012 London Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has had to ask fans to limit their sending of non-urgent tweets after overburdened data networks disrupted television coverage over the weekend. The surge of mobile tr… [read more]

Tags: 2012 London Olympic Games, Brandcast Health, Brandcast Media, International Olympic Committee, Olympics Overburdened By Too Many Tweets, Social media and the Olympics, Socialympics, The Olympic Games, Twitter Overload
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We had a wonderful evening at The Grosvenor Hotel last Thursday for The Communiqué Awards – the annual event which recognises excellence and best practice in healthcare communications. We were thrilled to be nominated for our work with The Portland Hospital, which made it to the finalist stag… [read more]

Tags: Brandcast Health, Excellence in Digital Communications, Finalist in The Communique Awards, Jimmy Carr, The Communique Awards, The Grosvenor Hotel, The Portland Hospital
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We’re thrilled to bits to announce that we’ve been short-listed as a finalist in this years Communiqué Awards for our digital strategy and implementation work  for The Portland Hospital. Our work on The Portland Hospital’s integrated digital and social media campaign is now a final… [read more]

Tags: AWARDS, Brandcast Health, Communiqué, Communiqué Awards, Communiqué shortlist, Digital Comms, Digital Communications, Excellence in Digital Communications, PM Group, PM Live, PM Society Digital Media Awards, The Portland Hospital
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While video marketing in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors is still in it’s infancy we are already seeing interest in this area grow as channels such as ecancer.tv provide a ready made target audience, just waiting to digest new educational video content.  For hospitals too, video is pr… [read more]

Tags: Video, Interactive, education, LinkedIn, on line video, Poll
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We celebrated Charlie and Janki’s birthdays last week with a delicious lunch at Ozer, around the corner from our offices at Little Portland Street. The food just kept on coming as we tucked into plates of hummus, tabbouleh, halloumi, roasted lamb and chicken. This was finished off nicely with a su… [read more]

Tags: Brandcast Health, Brandcast Media
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For all those of you that want to integrate your Pinterest activity with WordPress, never fear WP Pinner is here! WP Pinner launched this week, and describes itself as the ‘The Ultimate Pinterest dashboard inside your own WordPress admin area’. The dashboard displays a range of activity includin… [read more]

Tags: Brandcast Health, Mark Ramos, Pinerly, Pinterest, plugin, statistics, Wilco de Kreij, WordPress, WP Pinner
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A new iOS app called Pain Squad has been developed for children battling cancer, to help them deal with chemotherapy, hair loss and hospital stays. The app is the first to be developed to accompany children on their journeys, helping them to keep a daily log of their experience in a fun and interact… [read more]

Tags: Mobile, Apps, cancer, Children, iPhone, mHealth, oncology, patient education, patients
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iPad users rejoice! You can now get your favourite professional social network in glorious Technicolor straight to your iPad. Up until now LinkedIn (the world’s largest professional social network) has been a bit behind with its app development. The iPhone app was only released last year, and was… [read more]

Tags: coffee & couch, communications, contacts, Exchange calendar, Google +, iPad, iPhone, LinkedIn, mobile app, networking, Retina display, social network, Tablet, Technicolour, The LinkedIn app
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Last week saw the 7 year anniversary of the very first video upload to YouTube. Have you ever watched it? It’s a real treat – the 19-second “Me At the Zoo.” The video stars YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, chatting to camera about elephants having “really, really long trunks, and that’s c… [read more]

Tags: Video, YouTube
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We have updated our portfolio of work which is now available on SlideShare as a PDF. Doing digital healthcare since 2005, Brandcast Health is an independent, multi-award winning digital and social media communications agency with video at the heart of what we do. Our clients include pharma, biote… [read more]

Tags: Video, Mobile, Portfolio, SlideShare, website
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