TJ Kuhn starts blog on Pharmacuetical QA

I can't tell you how many times I've been told how the pharmaceutical industry will never allow blogging and social media.  It is the conventional wisdom that the pharmas are too uptight, to regulated, too private, too insensitive to blog.

So when my morning ego feed found a post by TJ Kuhn, called GxP, good practice from the quality assurance perspective, saying that the talking version of Naked Conversations helped get it started, I felt downright proud.

TJ has just put up his first post. I hope some of you will visit and will leave a few suggestions on how to get it going. I think he has already made a good start.


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[Tom Raftery]

Cool, you don't have a link for that blog by any chance, do you Shel?

[T. J. Kuhn]

Shel,

Wow, thanks for the plug. The things you and Robert say in Naked Conversations have been very inspiring for me. You are right though; working as I do for Pharma, I will need to be careful to keep my blogging within lines that would be acceptable for my employer.

For those who have asked about the url, here it is: www.tjkuhn.com

Best,

~TJK

[jasbinder]

Not just big pharma Shel, but other highly regulated industries fall into the same camp ruled by FUD: financial services, legal companies etc seem to think it's an all or nothing proposition. All are cultural super-tankers, but turn they will.

[Dan Schawbel]

I think it's an area where you have to be careful, but at the same time, I think there should be blogs on every facet of life.

[shel israel]

TJ,I have inserted the link. I am so very sorry to have omitted your link. I have been on the road and rushing everything and it makes me careless.

[Dan Greenfield]

Shel

Check out this

New White Paper Addresses Regulatory Issues in Social Media for Pharma Marketers that I came across in my daily blog reading. May be useful.

[Dan Greenfield]

It doesn't look like the link worked. Here is the URL

http://blog.cymfony.com/2007/09/new-white-paper.html

P.S. No vested interest here, just wanted to point it out

[Jim Minatel]

Shel you know to count me in the stunned and amazed group on anyone in pharma blogging, especially QA which I think is one of the very touchy subjects. Congrats on your continuing influence! TJ, good luck with your blog! Can't wait to see what you say!

[Jack Krupansky]

Oops... you have a broken link for TJ's blog. Try either:

http://www.tjkuhn.com/

or

http://tjkuhn.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/welcome-and-introduction/

Note: The latter shows up first in Google Blog Search for "TJ Kuhn".

-- Jack Krupansky

[T. J. Kuhn]

Thanks to everyone who's visited tjkuhn.com, commented, or otherwise added encouragement. I am excited about contributing regularly, though carefully. I've added my first topical post on "What is QA" and intend to continue in that thread with some excursions here or there as the mood strikes me.

For obvious reasons, I will have to keep many of my posts relatively broad and hypothetical. I will also take a look at some of the history involved (e.g. Tuskegee).

Shel, I definitely want to reiterate my thanks to you (and Robert) for your inspirational book. I was also very surprised that you were one of my very first readers. Thanks.

All the best,

TJK

[peter]

Shel you know to count me in the stunned and amazed group on anyone in pharma blogging, especially QA which I think is one of the very touchy subjects. Congrats on your continuing influence! TJ, good luck with your blog! Can't wait to see what you say!
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