East Coast Roadshow Redux: ANU Public Seminar, October 15, 2009

The last public seminar from the East Coast Roadshow Tour: ANU, School of Marketing Management and International Business, OCtober 15

Evidence based intervention has become the touchstone phrase for social marketing, public health and policy development in Australia in the recent years. The recent release of the Australia: The healthiest country by 2020 [...]

Social Marketing: Defend the Spend

Recent decisions by the UK government for serious investment in social change have brought up the spectre of spending money in bulk with the predictable results of another round of “Government spends X amount in wasteful spending of X amount” style commentary by the media..  It’s a traditional story, one steeped in time, mystery, and [...]

Social Marketing: Why definitions matter

From How-do via @chiefmaven….

The NHS North West’s drive to improve the health of the region’s population through a sustained social marketing campaign is seemingly coming under attack from numerous London-based newspapers – newspapers that seem to have misinterpreted what social marketing actually means.

Two things leap out of the How-do article. First, [...]

World Social Marketing Conference (Post Event Reflection)

I have to admit to still being somewhere between Cloud 9 and a state of shock over the sheer intensity of the conference, and my successes at the Conference. 

The Good

First and foremost, a massive thank you to TCP and to the National Social Marketing Centre [...]

Social Marketing: The M Word is there for a reason

Social marketing is perpetually on the rough end of the pineapple with what we set out to achieve – a competitive alternative to sex, drugs, rock & roll lifestyles, high fat food, chocolate and high speed driving. We need all the firepower of the commercial techniques and then some – commercial marketing is smart enough [...]