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SAN DIEGO, March 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The second annual survey on "Use of Social Media and Mobile by Healthcare Professionals" released today by AMN Healthcare, (NYSE: AHS - News) the nation's innovator in workforce solutions, shows significant increase from the prior year's results in use of social media by job-seeking healthcare professionals. According to the results of the 2011 survey, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists are networking with colleagues, tracking down job leads and applying for new positions at a significantly higher rate year-over-year.

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The social and mobile media survey provides healthcare employers and leaders a snapshot of how clinicians have increased their use of social media and mobile devices for networking, job hunting and other career development activities.

As healthcare professionals continue to migrate to the larger social networking sites, opportunity exists for employers to move into social recruiting and sourcing of physicians, nurses, allied health professionals and pharmacists. Job candidates spent more time on social media sites and/or on mobile devices in 2011 and reported an increase in securing interviews, job offers and positions through the use of mobile job alerts.

Susan Salka, AMN's president and chief executive officer, said, "We are not surprised that healthcare professionals continue to adopt social media as a mainstream method for job searching. Our innovative social and mobile methods have been successful in connecting job seekers to opportunities. We plan to continue reporting on significant changes and new, innovative opportunities affecting healthcare professionals and their careers."

AMN Healthcare recently launched the NurseJobs iPhone mobile application, which provides access to thousands of permanent, per diem and travel nurse jobs for registered nurses, nurse practitioners and CRNAs. The NurseJobs application follows the launch of the MHA physician job iPhone application, which launched in mid-2011.

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Industry leaders should continue to monitor the effectiveness of various social media networks and related applications as they develop future plans for recruiting, advertising and general communications. To obtain your complimentary copy of the social media and mobile survey results, visit the AMN Healthcare Web site.

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Sales of Procter & Gambles (PG) Pepto-Bismol had been flat or declining for several years when in 2010, P&G marketers noticed that social media chatter about the pink indigestion reliever was occurring on Saturday and Sunday morningspresumably after users had overindulged the night before. So P&G decided to try to lure potential customers before their eating and drinking binges by touting the product on Facebook with the upbeat slogan Celebrate Life. The result was an 11 percent market-share gain in the 12 months through fall 2011.

The company that for generations has meticulously observed customers in their homes as they mop floors, apply makeup, and diaper babies is now listening to their conversations online. And for good reason: The 25- to 54-year-old women who buy the bulk of P&Gs products spend more time on Facebook than typical users. For us, the real aha! was an incredible ability to listen to consumers much better, much faster, more broadly, says Alex Tosolini, P&Gs head of e-business. These days, social media is an integral part of brand building.Vergera: Jen Lowery/Splash News/Corbis; DeGeneres: Michael Rozman/Warner Bros/AP Photo

Thats creating new challenges for the worlds biggest advertiser. Even though P&Gs Tide, Crest, Cover Girl, and other brands are household names, theyre not what most people are talking about on Facebook or Twitter. I dont think too many people sit out there in conversation and talk about the deodorant they use, says Zain Raj, chief executive officer of marketing services company Hyper Marketing. Companies need to build bonds with customers so a brand becomes a choice, and then theyll go out of their way and pay more, he says.

P&G has created cheeky blogs, such as My Fire Hydrant, starring Tyler, an adopted bichon frise, to promote Iams pet food. Facebook pages of individual P&G brands use celebrities to tout products, including Ellen DeGeneres and Sofia Vergara for its Cover Girl makeup. And P&G creates online advocacy campaigns around topics that customers raise in focus groups.

Although P&G wont disclose how much of the $9.3 billion it spent last year on advertising went to social media, the company says its increasing the share of its marketing budget allocated to sites including Facebook, Twitter, and Googles (GOOG) YouTube, as well as sites prominent in overseas markets. All its major brands now have a social media marketing component. Women ages 25 to 54 with children at homethe key target audience for consumer products makerseach spent an average of 484 minutes on Facebook in February, 14 percent more time than the sites typical user, says Andrew Lipsman, vice president of industry analysis at digital marketing firm ComScore (SCOR).

P&G first stepped into social media in 2005, with Tylers blog. The fluffy white rescue-shelter dog engaged readers with his story and links to a bichon frise rescue-group site. P&G also that year ran its first ads and promotions created to drive traffic to a company website, Crest Whitestrips Smile State Facebook page, for students at 20 colleges. The site offered prizes, concerts, and other giveaways to those who joined.

More recently, P&G has built social media campaigns around issues important to consumers it wants to reach. Facebook pages for Secret deodorant, aimed at teenage girls, address the issue of bullyingthe proverbial mean girls whom some of its customers faced. From those findings, P&G created its Mean Stinks issue campaign on Facebook, launched last February. It features Amber Riley of televisions Glee. The page lets participants send apologies to those they have bullied and view videos and comments others have posted. The Mean Stinks page now has 367,402 likes, indicating users recommend it, with half regularly posting, viewing, or recommending the site.

Visitor interaction at Secrets Facebook page soared 25-fold since the campaign began, P&G says. It now has 1.5million likes. The interest also fueled a 5percent market-share jump for the core brand in the 12 months after the campaign, and 16 percent for the premium Secret Clinical line featured on Mean Stinks.

The bottom line: P&G has launched social media campaigns for its big brands. The 25- to 54-year-old women it targets are above-average Facebook users.

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A deals site for those with an overdeveloped sense of mortality? Possibly, but the team behind a new social network,My-bucketlist.net, which launches on March 30, say their goal is to connect people to check off shared goals togetherwhile offering group discounts.

Users sign up on the site or through Facebook, add items to their lists, and connect with friends and other people on the site who share the same goals. Users decide whom to invite and accept into their group.For popular goals such as skydiving, visiting the Eiffel Tower, or swimming with dolphins, My-bucketlist contacts vendors to offer services at a discounted rate. The most popular items are travel or adventure based, co-founder AndrewJorgensen says. For niche goalssay, traveling to the South Polevendors send targeted offers. Vendors might also sell dance lessons or language classes or software.

The network is the newest service developed byRemembered.com, a three-person company co-founded in 2009 by Jorgensen, now 46, and developer Adolfo Espadas, 34. When he started the company, Jorgensen had just recovered from swine flu. This kind of makes you think about your life and what youre doing, he says. Thats when Jorgensen started thinking about the death-care business.The Salt Lake City-basedcompanylaunchedRemembered.com in September 2010 as a place for users to create online memorials for $10 to $20.Freefuneralnotice.com allows people to send out announcements via e-mail or Facebook. Also in development are My Final Message, which sends pre-recorded video messages to friends and family in the event of ones passing, and Account Vault, which designates a recipient for a dead users IDs and passwords.

Not exactly cheery stuff. A lot of the business we were doing were more on the death-care side of things, Jorgensen says. Its not exactly the most uplifting. Sometimes it can be very positive, but sometimes it can be on the emotional side.

Hence My-bucketlist, acheerier turn for the field of death care.The idea stemmed from the pairs frustration with daily deal sites, which spam subscribers with offers that dont interest them. They wanted to achieve simultaneous aims: stay in the death-care business, which is profitable for Remembered.com, while offering deals targeted at peoples life goals. The company sells ads and collects a commission on sales generated by the site.

In beta, My-bucketlist has signed up about 1,000 users, most of them 30 and younger. Jorgensen expects they will be the sites main user demographic because they grew up using Facebook and Twitter.Theyre not people who have a high preoccupation with dying, he concedes. Theyre people who have their life ahead of them, and they are making their list of things they want to do.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/556b1c35/benchmarking_consu) has announced the addition of the "Benchmarking Consumer Social Networks and Their Applications in Taiwan and China" report to their offering.

Chinese QQ and weibo.com have caught the spotlight in the global consumer social networking market owing to their considerable growth and rapid user base increase in China. Many vendors are eyeing social networking development in the Taiwan market as well. This report offers insight into the applications and service preferences of Taiwanese and Chinese consumer social networks for branded and social networking vendors outlining their future development plans.

List of Topics

- Touching on Internet penetration and social networking market development in Taiwan and China

- Social networking platform preferences of Taiwanese and Chinese consumers, including discussion forums, social utility sites, multimedia-sharing sites, and microblogs

- Different preferences for application activities between Taiwanese and Chinese consumers

- Social platform application usage levels of Taiwanese and Chinese consumers in terms of social networking and information application digital capabilities

- Consumer preferences towards platforms, activities, and applications analyses, it is found that Taiwan consumers focus more on social utility sites and discussion forums, while integrated mobile applications satisfy consumer demand for self-expression in China

Key Topics Covered:

1. China's Internet User Base 30 Times Larger than Taiwan's; Social Networking Market Expected to See Strong Growth

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A new era ... NSW schools are set to become more relaxed after students accessing social networking sites.

THE ban on students accessing social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter at school could be relaxed as the NSW Education Department reviews its internet filtering policy.

Social media sites are at present blocked, but with its internet filtering contract due to expire, the department is surveying schools to ensure the next version of the software meets their needs.

Schools ''have been asked to complete a survey designed to identify the features they believe are required in the future'', a department spokesman said. ''Part of this process has included the question of student access to sites under the social networking category.''

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The department's director of public schools, Dianne Marshall, told an education forum this week she believed that social networking would play a major role in education.

Lila Mularczyk, the deputy president of the NSW Secondary Principals Council - which reviews internet filtering categories as part of a schools web-filtering control group - said there had been varied responses towards social networking.

But through ongoing consultation with the Digital Education Revolution program, the council was aware of websites that could be useful for students to access at school and was looking forward to the survey results, she said.

A spokeswoman for the NSW Federation of Parents and Citizens Associations, Rachael Sowden, said parents would welcome supervision of students accessing social networking sites at school.

''Kids are actually accessing it at school anyway on their mobile phones. It's better to help support our students rather than put our heads in the sand and hope they don't access it by blocking it. We'd much rather have policies in place that support its safe usage.''

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