{"id":7783,"date":"2007-01-12T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/new-forum-for-marketers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:26:37","slug":"new-forum-for-marketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/new-forum-for-marketers\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Forum for Marketers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many readers of this blog may not know some of the other online venues I am responsible for that help pharmaceutical marketers stay in touch with the issues and with each other.<\/p>\n

The newest example is Pharma Marketing Forums<\/a>, which is a web-based community that features discussion boards. The Forums are a re-incarnation of the PHARMA-MKTING listserv that I have been hosting and moderating for 10 years! For those youngsters out there who may not know what a listserv is, let me enlighten you.<\/p>\n

A listserv is an e-mail list software application by a company called L-SOFT. It allows members to send e-mail messages to the entire list. The PHARMA-MKTING list now has about 2400 members worldwide!<\/p>\n

A listserv is a great collaboration and communications tool. However, it has limits. The main problem is that it generates a lot of e-mail and these days people get too much e-mail. I am especially guilty of sending out a lot of e-mail already in support of my free newsletter, Pharma Marketing News.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Web-based Pharma Marketing Network Forums<\/a> allow discussions like a listserv, but also includes many other neat social networking tools like buddy lists, member profiles, calendars, private messaging between members, user-generated content, polling, content rating, calendar submissions, etc., etc. Members can also decide which discussions they wish to keep track of by e-mail notification. Members can register under a pseudonym and remain anonymous. In other words, members have much more control over what information about them others see and how they interact with discussions.<\/p>\n

So, I am disbanding the PHARMA-MKTING listserv effective February 1, 2007, and encouraging everyone to join<\/a> the Pharma Marketing Forums<\/a>. Note: members get some special privileges, but even guests can post threads and participate in discussions. So, check it out.<\/p>\n

The following is an outline of the discussion boards available. This structure is subject to change.<\/p>\n

Housekeeping
These are forums related to discussion of rules of usage, who we are, how to use the features of forums, etc.<\/p>\n