Comments on: CDC Asks You to Name That Blog

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:05:44 +0000

Interesting, nice way to communicate via a medium which is growing. nice to initiate such type of helpful blogs for the users.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:00:08 +0000

Thanks for your comment here. I’m currently at the CDC conference in Atlanta. If possible, I’d love to touch base and meet in person. I’d be interested in learning more about the Gateway and the future direction of its development.

Best,

Alex

By: Curt Shannon

Curt Shannon — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:09:04 +0000

Thanks for posting this, and thanks for your comments Mike. You are right that this is a starting point, and we welcome your comments and suggestions about how we can improve the site and make it better and more useful for everyone in the field.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:30:59 +0000

Oh–and one last thing. For that reason, it’s why I would aim to not have health in the blog’s title (even though I would see why CDC might want that), but social marketing is applicable to a number of issues beyond health–and that is where I truly see the opportunity for the future of social marketing in particular.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:29:08 +0000

I agree Mike–it is very health communications heavy. But, at least it’s something. I know there are a lot of questions (slash debate–depending on the company) about the relationship between social marketing and health communications. Perhaps this will be a topic they’ll tackle on the blog. =) I’ve thought about doing it here as well… just haven’t gotten around to that one yet. It’s on my list though.

By: Mike Newton-ward

Mike Newton-ward — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:10:53 +0000

I like that it brings together a lot of great information and resources. However, it is heavily weighted toward health communication. And where it presents social marketing it tends to smush it together with health comm., from informational text, to SM being a sub-header under health comm., to descriptions of the various versions of Cynergy. It seesm like CDC is somewhat confused about the to, but I agree that “At the very least, it is a starting point.”