From the CEO: Deer Mr. Woodruff…

On behalf of the Boonton/Boonton Township herd of wandering whitetails (the “Rampaging Ruminants”), I’d like to personally thank you for your donation of land and foodstuffs during this past season.
After a winter of the typical boring forest fare, my companions and I found your yard and its carefully cultivated hors d’oeuvres to be particularly engaging. [...]

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Social Media and Training

I’m a big advocate (and regular user) of what is commonly called “social media” – tools that enable people to publish, connect, and interact on-line. Inevitably, social media is evolving into strategies for marketing, PR, and training – although very slowly for our highly-regulated pharma industry.
Next month, I’ll be attending a conference exploring the use [...]

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Pharma News 9_26

The Sales Force Shuffle, from Pharmaceutical Executive – The last week the pharma atmosphere was abuzz with news about sales force cuts, outsourcing, and overhauls. First, Schering-Plough announced that it had eliminated the 1,000 sales positions it said it would trim in April. This is being done as part of a new sales model called—internally—a [...]

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After Hours 9_26

I want this desktop doomsday device.
Yes, even wine can be politicized!
There’s no place like a new home office!
A much cooler version of something we’ve shown before – a worldwide map showing the traffic patterns of airplanes over the span of a day. Very cool!

Even if you’re not into golf, this amazing [...]

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Training Tidbits 9_19

FREE Webinar next week: Learn what’s shaking up the learning industry and what’s causing it to reevaluate its strategies when you join Training magazine for a live, interactive Webinar, as Training Technology in Action Conference & Awards host Bryan Chapman discusses the five major trends driving changes within the industry. Tuesday, Sept. 30 – all [...]

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Pharma News 9_19

Huge cuts at Schering-Plough: 1,000 sales jobs going away – As part of a reorganization already under way, the drugmaker is eliminating 1,000 sales jobs – or 20 percent of its sales force – by October. Many of the 4,000 or so surviving reps, meanwhile, will be shifted to pitch different types of docs or [...]

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After Hours 9_19

A couple of very cool astronomy pictures – the shadow of an eclipse on earth (from orbit); and, an image of my favorite deep space object, a globular cluster (way back when, I owned a telescope and was a backyard amateur astronomer – one day I aspire to live somewhere with dark skies and renew [...]

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All Aboard!

Attended a local ASTD (Mid-NJ chapter) last night, which was on the topic of On-Boarding. Scott Mason of BlessingWhite gave a very interesting talk, which was peppered with all kinds of audience involvement – this was clearly a hot topic for folks in the audience.
Having worked deeply with one client on a revamp of the [...]

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Digital Pharma Conference – be there!

If you’re interested in where new marketing/new media technology is going within pharma, then you need to look at the eXL 2nd Annual Digital Pharma conference, coming up Oct. 14-16 in Princeton, NJ.
I’ll be there. I plan to do some event blogging during and after the conference. UPDATE: I’ll also be speaking on a panel [...]

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Pharma News 9_12

King begins hostile takeover proceedings with Alpharma – Brain Markison, King’s ceo, is disappointed that Dean Mitchell, Alpharma’s ceo, hasn’t responded to his initial offer $1.4 billion offer, which amounted to $33 a share. So Markison raised the bid to $37, or $1.6 billion, and is going directly to shareholders…more
J&J’s Christine Poon to retire.
ImClone to [...]

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