{"id":1550,"date":"2008-12-22T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2008-12-22T00:15:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T15:15:29","slug":"so-net-m3-a-community-site-for-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/so-net-m3-a-community-site-for-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"So-net M3 &#8211; a community site for doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1555\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/sonet_m3.png\" alt=\"sonet_m3\" width=\"402\" height=\"267\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.so-netm3.com\/corporate\/\">So-net M3<\/a> (TSE:2413) is a very profitable and unique company which is providing a community site &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.m3.com\/index.jsp\">m3.com&#8217;<\/a> exclusively for medical doctors.<br \/>\nDoctors are restricted by confidentiality, so they cannot use typical community sites to share information about their professional life or skills. M3 provides them with a bulletin board service.<br \/>\nM3 has 390,000 registered medical professionals, and 162,000 of their registered users are medical doctors.<br \/>\nM3 reported 7.4 billion yen ($74M) revenue, and 3.4 billion yen ($34M) in pre-tax profits for FY2008. They earned this large amount of profit with only 50 employees and 6 executives (as of March, 2008). [1]<br \/>\nThe company&#8217;s main revenue comes from providing marketing tools to pharmaceutical companies. M3 enables sales people to reach doctors through the site, instead of bothering doctors with frequent office visits.<br \/>\nM3&#8217;s other businesses are <a href=\"http:\/\/career.m3.com\/\">job search<\/a> [JP], clinical trial matching, Q&amp;A sites for patients (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askdoctors.jp\/\">AskDoctors<\/a> [JP]), <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.m3.com\/\">Doctors Blog<\/a> [JP], <a href=\"http:\/\/clinic.m3.com\/showTopPage.htm\">business consulting services for new practitioners<\/a> [JP], and general advertisements.<br \/>\nM3 acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdlinx.com\/\">MDLinx<\/a>, a US-based medical community site for 950 million yen ($9.5M) in 2006. M3 is also invested in the Korean market through a company called Medi C&amp;C.<br \/>\nSo-net M3 is a subsidiary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.so-net.ne.jp\/corporation\/en\/index.html\">So-net Entertainment<\/a> (TSE:3789). So-net Entertainment is an Internet service provider, and a subsidiary of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sony.net\/\">Sony<\/a> (TSE:6758, NYSE:<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=SNE\">SNE<\/a>).<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.so-netm3.co.jp\/ir\/idc\/2008\/20080424_2.pdf\">FY2008 financial report<\/a> [PDF] [JP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So-net M3 (TSE:2413) is a very profitable and unique company which is providing a community site &#8216;m3.com&#8217; exclusively for medical doctors. Doctors are restricted by confidentiality, so they cannot use typical community sites to share information about their professional life or skills. M3 provides them with a bulletin board service. M3 has 390,000 registered medical&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/so-net-m3-a-community-site-for-doctors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">So-net M3 &#8211; a community site for doctors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,11,17,23,29,35,36],"tags":[323,398,515,725,948,2258,3450,3451],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-event-report","category-japan","category-new-service","category-service","category-technology","category-trend","tag-askdoctors","tag-bbs","tag-bulletin-board","tag-community","tag-doctor","tag-medical","tag-sonet","tag-sonet-m3","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}