Nice video on the rise of social networking and communities led by patients, featuring the US-based CureTogether as a prime example. It’s a patient-led site where you can: “Compare your symptoms, choose treatments and uncover triggers that might be affecting you. Get ideas you can bring to your doctor. Track your progress toward feeling [...]
After reading a blog about burnout the other week I’d been thinking about how to help community managers avoid the same problem, faced by pressures from managing difficult issues online to getting buying from across their organisation. The issue came back to me today after reading FreshNetwork’s Holly Seddon ask how to best deal with [...]
Congratulations to Big White Wall which has won the 2009 MediaGuardian Award for Innovation for Community Engagement.
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Good to see the National Equalities in Mental Health Programme on Twitter — cheers!
A few years ago I wrote a brief paper on empowerment. Here’s the paragraph on mental health groups; it’s only got five points:-)
Non-linear empowerment for self- help/consumer-run services
1 Strengthen consumer group leaders by empowering them with greater self-confidence.
2 Support and strengthen consumer [...]
Thought I’d share the benefit of my experience in the NHS/healthcare e-commerce & web 2.0 with the following quick & dirty guide to promoting your healthcare product using web 2.0 tools:
Say your product currently already has a product site which has tons of great information about the product. Without too much time/effort the information could be lifted [...]
TOWARDS A WORKING NON-LINEAR SCIENCE OF EMPOWERMENT
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A paper for presentation during the Ninth Annual International Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences in Berkeley, California, July 23-26, 1999
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Abstract: This paper is based on the believe that people have an intuitive ‘chaos’ understanding of the world in [...]
Hmm, interesting piece in the NY Times, while this applies to older people and how they think differently its a way of mentally approaching the world which I kind of like myself, though it’s taken some hard work to get there, I’m looking forward to my ‘early retirement’ so to speak..
From Wired news that Google Launches Medical-Records App. Hmm, wonder if they resolved the controversy over their health advisory board?..
NY Times piece that reveals hard work can kill you (the perils of blogging as a profession). Hmm, I’ve worked somewhere a bit like that before. But hey isn’t being compulsive considered kinda normal?
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Now that I finished at MDX I’ll remember all the people, and a few achievements including:
1. Encouraging the use of blogs and wikis both internally and in medical imaging. Particularly good for keeping in touch with CN.
2. Making a connection with open access publisher BioMed Central.
3. Developing a good relationship with Reuters (nice working with [...]
