Changing Our Behaviour: The Role of Knowledge
To know is to do. This is an unspoken assumption behind much of what is written about change. If we
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information technology
Seeking simplicity among complexity? Go Dutch!
In a world awash in content and the resulting complexity that comes when it all intersects the viable options for
Read moreWhen More is Less: The Information Paradox
There is a point at which information ceases to increase knowledge and understand and begins to undermine it, creating a
Read moreFrogs, Pots, Blogs and Social Media
Our information landscape has been compared with our diets providing an ample opportunity to compare what we ‘consume’ with how
Read moreeHealth / mHealth And Privacy Will Never Coexist
A 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.
Read moreLibraries, Literacy and the Learning Imperative
Libraries have an opportunity to advance literacy now as much as ever, but as some argue, the time has come to expand that mandate to helping people take the intellectual initiative.
Read moreeHealth Deja Vu All Over Again
It took more than 15 years for public eHealth approaches like using the Web for tobacco control to take hold, in large part because there wasn’t the ‘evidence’. In the age of social media, are we doomed to see history repeat itself? This post looks at how in the area of social media education and adoption, it’s deja vu all over again.
Read moreeHealth and the Means-Ends Problem
Information technology provides a lot of ideas for how to change, but the tools are only one part of the equation. Without considering the culture in which these tools are used the change we want will not be the change we get.
Read moree(un)Health
Is the ‘e’ part of eHealth working at cross purposes with our wellbeing? The speed, volume and complexity of information online and the myriad ways we access such information may be leading to new types of illnesses and problems as it solves others.
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