Leading creative/advertising blog, Osocio, is conducting it’s annual awards event for top socially conscious campaigns of 2010 that were featured on the site. Many of you may remember Pulse + Signal guest author – Marc van Gurp, who posted content for Spread the Word Sundays last year. Here’s an excerpt on why it’s happening: BecauseRead… Read more »
It’s official. The remaining members of the Mayo Clinic’s new Center for Social Media advisory board have been chosen and I’m pretty excited about being a part of it. The Advisory Board for the Mayo Clinic Center for Health Care Social Media includes representatives from various health care roles, including patients, who have been activelyRead… Read more »
Scanning through Twitter tonight while working on a couple things, I came across an interesting job posting to the Problogger board: It just made me think about the interesting discussions and responses from the eCigarette series featured on the blog a few months back. I pointed out some things in the screenshot above that areRead… Read more »
Recently, good friend and social marketing thought leader Craig LeFebvre wrote a post on the 10 “What Ifs” for Social Marketing. In the post he discusses his review of the revised version of Nedra Weinreich’s Hands-On Social Marketing book and what he got out of it. After marinating on the book’s content and lamenting theRead… Read more »
I know it has been some time since the American Public Health Association had their annual meeting in Colorado last November, but I am just getting around to watching a video of Dr. Cornel West’s opening session talk. Wow. I don’t believe I have ever seen as much energy in a gathering of public healthRead… Read more »
Here on Pulse + Signal I’ve covered the journey of Josh Nesbit, Isaac Holeman and the rest of the folks working to bring mobiles to global health innovation at FrontlineSMS:Medic. Whether it be through a CNN highlight, exclusive footage of their community health worker training or a Poptech write up – there is no doubtRead… Read more »