Announcing Social Networking Support

AccessFYI now supports Social Networking tools.

If you find something particularly interesting on AccessFYI, you can post it to your Facebook account instantly.

The new feature also supports Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, delicious, and over 200 other social media platforms. You can even email your colleagues about your find using this new feature.

Just look for this button bar and you can utilize the feature.

You may have to download the Addthis feature for your browser (IE and Firefox), and then it should work like a charm. It took me 2 minutes to get both my browsers working and posting to Facebook with this feature.

Give it a shot and let me know how it works for you.

Happy Earth Day

We're looking for a few good web investigators

AccessFYI is looking for six volunteers to perform in-depth web searches. You will seek out specific content and submit your findings to our new community-driven web site. Google is your friend.

If you can commit 4 hours a week for six weeks at home on your schedule, we would like to hear from you. This opportunity is ideal for people between jobs or those who want experience in community web portals and/or in the Life Science industry. Participants will receive a certificate upon completing the program. We are willing to tailor individual programs for college credit. 18 years or older please.

Participants will receive assignments from the Managing Director.

If interested, email investigator@accessfyi.com and we will send you additional information.

Thinner, Lighter Kindle 2 Wows Frequent Readers

Are you overwhelmed with the amount of paper you carry around just to keep up? I was. If you currently slog around pounds of books, reports and magazines, the Kindle 2 will rock your world.

The svelte new Kindle 2 is lighter, thinner, and faster than its predecessor. This is great news for frequent readers.

The Kindle 2 is wireless. Download an entire book in under 60 seconds. There are over 230,000 titles ready for download. Access over 1,000 blogs.

Just slip the Kindle 2 into your bag and go. It only weighs 10 ounces - about the same as a single magazine or newspaper.

The Kindle 2 screen has the look of print type. The advantage is you can store hundreds of books and magazines and always have the material you need with you. You can even copy your own reports and other PDF files onto the Kindle. Beats carrying an armload of books, magazines, and reports everywhere.

Nintendo Announces Wii Checkup Channel

If you don't already own a Nintendo Wii, you've certainly either played it or know someone who is addicted to the innovative gaming platform.

Nintendo has developed titles under the Wii Fit name to help people exercise. Now, they are taking personal health one step further.

Nintendo is teaming up with Hitachi, Panasonic, NEC, and an unnamed health insurance company to offer a new health channel. The channel will offer specific health advice and guidance, including activities related to the user's weight.

The channel will work in conjunction with the Wii Balance Board, the Walk With Me pedometers and the NEC mobile phone health platform. Look for an April 2009 launch date.

Which now begs the question - Will there be opportunities for pharmaceutical companies to integrate into this channel?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=350273

Tough Job Market? - Find Your Dream Job

Search tens of thousands of jobs in the Life Sciences and find your ideal gig. It's a simple yet powerful search tool. Type what kind of job you are looking for (i.e. clinical research, pharmaceutical sales, etc.) and where you want to work (i.e. NJ, CA, or leave blank for US). You can even specify a city or zip code to really dial it in.

See what opportunities are out there for you today.

Visit the Job Center

Year End Advertising Deals Available

Get a jump on 2009 with our Year End advertising deals. You must book your ads before 12/31 to lock 'em in, so hurry.

Contact Marah Walsh at (215) 321-8656 for more details.

Submit Your Press Releases Now

We invite all you PR pros, marketing gurus, and publicity mavens in the Life Sciences to upload your press releases to AccessFYI.com. It doesn't cost a dime.

To see our Press Release area, click here.

To submit a press release, click on the Upload Content button in the Press Release area,
or click here.

Oh, and if you haven't registered for a free account, you can do that here.

For those really special new items, you might want to consider upgrading to a Sponsored Listing. This option is available when you submit your release. You'll get a spot at the top of the press release area, where your news will shine like a beacon above all others. Enjoy.

AccessFYI Launches

AccessFYI has oficially launched. Please visit today. We have a suggestion box in the upper-left corner of the site, and we'd love to get your feedback and ideas.

Launch Countdown in Progress

Well, after significant developing, adapting, tweaking, and polishing, we're preparing for our official launch. Check out the web site around early-November.

Thousands of items are free and immediately accessible. You can also buy products from our store.

Please send us some feedback when you get a chance.

Some key features:

1) Press Releases
2) White Papers
3) Industry Reports
4) Industry Yellow Pages
5) Podcasts
6) Videos
7) Web Seminars
8) Conferences
9) Workshops
10) eLearning Modules
11) Trade Publications
12) Medical Journals
13) Consumer Magazine Subscriptions
14) Books
15) Newsletters
16) Blogs
17) Live Chat Sessions
18) Job Center

PharmaForce 2007 Special Offer: Save 15%

PharmaForce 2007 is coming up this September in Philadelphia. Here are some key details.

PharmaForce 2007 is the Premier Pharmaceutical Sales Force Effectiveness Conference. This 3-day interactive forum tackles a wide range of significant areas and challenges faced by Pharmaceutical sales executives. The conference is attended by over 200 sales heads representing the leading small and large pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotech firms. PharmaForce 2007 provides a discussion forum for sales leaders to overcome declining physician and data access and increase their ROI.

If you are interested in attending PharmaForce 2007, or learning more, click on the banner above.

Special Offer for Sales Executives at Pharma Manufacturers:
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Gearing up for an August Beta Launch

It's almost time. We expect to go live with our beta launch this month. We're just tinkering with a few more things.

If you want to know the exact date we are live, please visit www.accessfyi.com and use the link near the top of the page to add your email address to our launch list. We'll send out an email as soon as the full site is up.

Interns Wanted

accessFYI Internship Opportunity

accessFYI is a business-to-business web portal for professionals in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sectors of the life sciences. What WebMD is for consumers, accessFYI is for professionals. accessFYI is a service offered by PharmaLinx LLC, publisher of PharmaVOICE magazine and its supplemental publications.

The portal will list free content, paid content, job listings, podcasts, web seminars, videos, whitepapers, requests for proposal, and much more.

As we prepare for launch, we are looking for several unpaid interns to participate in the management of the portal. Students preparing for a career in the Life Sciences are ideal, but candidates do not have to be students to apply. The work is performed at the intern’s residence or institution. No travel is required.

Purpose of InternshipThe purpose of the internship is to provide activities to help the interns gain experience in the life sciences industry. The internship experience should be one that strengthens areas where the intern is lacking in skills, knowledge and experience.

The intern will be in an immersive environment and earn hands-on experience working with a vast variety of topics in the life sciences. Intern will have exposure to a comprehensive array of issues, companies and people in the industry. The potential contacts alone are invaluable to a student seeking a career in this field. Responsibilities will be determined based on the skills, availability and interests of the intern.

Activities and Requirements

Activities may include:

• Searching for appropriate content on the Internet
• Uploading free content information the Content Management System
• Uploading product information from commercial content partners
• Moderating discussion forums
• Posting entries to blogs
• Managing sponsorships placements/ads
• Edit podcasts
• Other activities to be determined by intern’s enthusiasm and capabilities

Requirements:

• A computer with broadband access
• A personal email account
• Experience with MS Office products (preferably Word and Excel)
• 20 hours or more per month to devote to assigned tasks
• Maintain a log of activities and hours
• Write a Reflection Paper upon completion of the internship

Duration
We are flexible. The Internship may correspond with your academic calendar (semester), or during summer break. The internship will have more benefit to all parties if it lasts at least three months, and results in at least 60 hours of work logged.

Credit
The institution will determine if and how much credit is to be awarded for this internship. accessFYI will provide a written summary regarding the intern’s performance during the internship. The educational institution may provide a feedback form for this purpose if desired.

Reflection Paper
Upon completion of the internship, the intern should write a Reflection Paper, which will be given to the university and accessFYI. The Reflection Paper is intended to provide useful feedback to the university and accessFYI. It should include:

1. Major areas of need/interest before the internship experience
2. Overview of major activities pursued during the internship
3. Major learning that resulted from the internship
4. Ways to apply what you learned now or in the future
5. Gaps or further learning areas needed

About PharmaLinx LLC
PharmaLinx was founded in 2001 by three dynamic women in the medical publishing trade. The company published PharmaVOICE magazine, and the sector-specific PharmaVOICE VIEW publications. In addition, the company produces approximately 15 web seminars and 30 podcast episodes a year.

The web portal accessFYI.com is the company’s newest and most ambitious foray into developing new channels of resources for professionals in the life sciences industry. The company is headquartered in Titusville, NJ. Employees work from offices in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Illinois.


For more information about this internship opportunity, please contact Dan Limbach, Managing Director of accessFYI, at dan.limbach@accessfyi.com. For an overview of the portal, visit www.accessfyi.com.

Are You Our Next Content Partner?

Happy 2007!

We are actively seeking content partners during our pre-launch phase.

If you have any life science content for sale, such as research reports, products, or events, we want to be a reseller channel for you.

Get the PDF overview here.

See a demo of the web site here.

Email me at dan.limbach@accessfyi.com for more information. You can also call me to chat about it at 847-594-0157.

RSS Feed now available

The accessFYI blog is now available as an RSS feed. Whatever aggregator you use; Google, Yahoo!, NewsGator, etc., you can add our feed to your RSS collection.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/accessfyi

Web Site Preview is "Live"

Take a look at the demo of the web site. It's worth a glance.

www.accessfyi.com

Why accessFYI?

Why are we building this web portal? I'll try to shed some light on the reasoning.

As a popular trade publication (PharmaVOICE), we constantly have insights into the thoughts and needs of the life sciences business professional. Our audience consist of the people who move the business model "from molecule to market." From R & D, drug discovery, and clinical trials, through commercialism, we're tapped into the collective consciousness of the industry. We tap thought leaders in companies on the sponsor side (pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device) as well as the legions of service providers in the industry.

Our constituents appreciate the value of our publications, and are asking for more. More access to information. More access to tools. More access to ideas. More access to their peers. More access to job opportunities.

It's our goal to provide a source of comprehensive information to help the life sciences professional be more successful. It's a no-brainer extension of our business, as we are ideally positioned to deliver on this mandate.

Our new web portal, accessFYI.com will aggregate content and provide connections and bring it all together via the web. The short list of items includes:

• Blogs
• Discussion forums
• Email newsletters
• Jobs
• Magazine articles
• News
• Podcasts
• Research reports
• Teleseminars
• Videocasts
• Web seminars
• Whitepapers

Some of these items will be brought to you under the PharmaVOICE brand, while a great many others will be aggregated from our content partners and thought leaders throughout the industry.

Any thoughts? We'd love to hear from you. Contact me at dlimbach@pharmavoice.com .

Introducing accessFYI

Welcome to accessFYI.

The Resource for Life Sciences.

Stay tuned for more information as we continue development and move closer to launch.