Actions and the Language of Change
Actions speak the language of change by making it visible. Talking about change shapes our actions, so let’s talk carefully.
Read moreInformation & communication technologies for health
Actions speak the language of change by making it visible. Talking about change shapes our actions, so let’s talk carefully.
Read moreSome fields stagnate because they fail to take the bold steps into the unknown by taking chances and proposing new
Read moreI recently spoke at an interactive workshop presentation at the 2013 Ontario Public Health Convention (TOPHC) looking at social media
Read moreSystems thinking, design thinking, developmental evaluation, creativity, networks and innovation: these are the keywords for health in the coming years. They are as author Eric Topol calls the dawning of the creative destruction of medicine. The public is already using social media for health and now the time has come for health (care, promotion and protection) systems to get on board and make the changes necessary to join them.
Read moreSocial media, like all human activities, involves designed interactions in a complex environment. How we design for this space is as much about the social as it is the media.
Read moreUsing complexity science principles to guide the process and powered by social media and face-to-face engagement, the power to take what we know, contextualize it, and transform it into something we can act on seems to me the best way forward in dealing with problems of chronic disease that are so knotted and pervasive, yet demand rapid responses.
Read moreSocial marketing can be a problem when what we ‘sell’ has unintended consequences. These are discussed in light of certain health behaviour change concepts and theories.
Read moreAn increase in well-intentioned health and education groups are violating the etiquette of social media by sending unsolicited emails to people and the blowback that comes from that might be enough to derail the good health communication messages to come.
Read moremHealth (mobile health) has a remarkable number of similarities to Lady Gaga. In this post, I point them out.
Read moreA recent podcast from Twist Image unleashed a whole line of thinking in me about privacy and our electronic tools and has led me to conclude that eHealth and privacy cannot and will not ever coexist.
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