es, combines social and traditional media to revolutionize the way the MHS communicates with its staff and the general public...
“MHS Profiles engages readers with compelling personal stories of individuals that tell not what but who the MHS is, and how their work advances military health,” says Dr. Michael Kilpatrick, Director of Strategic Communications for the Military Health System. “These are the people of the MHS; the researchers, the teachers and the providers who dedicate their lives to protecting our Armed Services.”
The first issue of MHS Profiles tells the story of Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Blair, a Navy immunologist who works on H1N1 influenza research with the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego. His career as a “virus hunter” has taken him to the Andes mountains in Peru, where he identified and tracked three diseases not previously known to be in the region...
... The series of personalized articles will focus on the people who work on innovative and progressive programs designed to meet the needs of our service members, veterans and their families. New issues are slated to appear monthly.
Read the inaugural issue of MHS Profiles at www.health.mil/profiles.
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ubject explains, "if the Air Force does not tell its own story, someone else will." This strategy already appears to paying off, Dana Theus writes. Social Media Today
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revenue, Facebook is testing a payment tool for site members to buy apps and other virtual items. The social net collects a percentage of each purchase or charges a flat fee. Facebook also is in the test phase for a tool to be used by members or marketers to purchase or swap "credits" or virtual funds for buying on the site.
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hnology Directorate (S&T) to connect and share advice on how to
best prepare for and respond to all hazards.....Through the online
network named “First Responder Communities of Practice,” fire, law
enforcement, emergency medical services, and emergency management
personnel can sign up for the network, log in, and search for other
professionals, connect, and share best practices.
The network kicked off Feb. 1 and has cost DHS about $1.2 million ... and features the network features user profiles, professional tags, RSS feeds, wikis, and blogs ... in five years, DHS hopes the network will have 500,000 people, or about
one-fifth of the roughly 2.5 million first responders in the United
States.....
Read on at: http://fcw.com/articles/2010/04/01/web-dhs-first-responder-social-network.aspx?s=fcwdaily_020410ENJOY!CC…
As reported in Federal Computer Week ... these are the government IT social-networking sites that will do a good job of keeping you in the loop & on the cutting…
interesting facts and figures describing the way social media and new media are changing the health care industry.
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GovLoop will become an operating division within GovDelivery, a software-as-a-service company, operating on a cloud computing platform that government agencies use to communicate. ... Steve Ressler, GovLoop founder and president, will continue in his role leading the fastgrowing GovLoop community... Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed...
... The acquisition unites two prominent players in the “Government 2.0,” market, as the application of social-networking technology to government functions has been termed. ... GovLoop has become the go-to online community for government professionals to collaborate, socialize and support each other... The site has members, mostly public sector employees, in both the U.S. and Europe...
“GovLoop has been my passion since I launched it in May 2008,” Ressler said. “What
began as a simple idea to improve government through collaboration has already grown
on a scale well beyond my expectations..."
... By the end of this year, GovLoop will launch additional initiatives to support the community with a goal of encouraging more in-person meetings, making it easier to tap into GovLoop to solve critical problems, and will launch a charitable fund ...
Read on at: http://www.govdelivery.com/govloop.php
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gathered a
wealth of data on its 65,000 members, which span 16 different disease communities, including epilepsy, fibromyalgia, and depression. It provides users with tools to track their health status and communicate with other patients, and then removes the personal details and sells the data to pharmaceutical companies and others...... The approach won't replace clinical trials, at least anytime soon. But
some experts do believe it could have enormous benefits, highlighting how different types of patients use drugs, when they stop, or what side effects they experience...Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25276/?nlid=2970&a=fENJOY!CC…
In the continuing quest to bring you the 3C's of "Content, Community & Collaboration" in advanced medical technology, we offer the following new Web 2.0…