Amazing Stuff: November 22 Edition
This week’s amazing stuff features photos, videos, participatory design, tweet tools, mindblowing statistics and more.
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Amazing Stuff: November 6th Edition
From H1N1 apps for the iPhone, seeing the beauty of islands from space, the carbon footprint of pets, exploring innovation online, and visualizing the world around us using computer-assisted tools, the first week of November has offered a lot of amazing things.
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Amazing Stuff: Halloween Edition
This week’s Halloween edition of Amazing stuff highlights a short video on complexity science (and organizing a children’s party), an unexpected (and amusing) link between environmental health + pornography, a map of illness, marketing and PR for the masses, and figuring out what meaning really means in the world of design.
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Public eHealth & Collaboration Networks Talk
Public eHealth and Collaboration Networks — presentation this Thursday
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eHealth and the Trust Factor
Trust is the foundation of eHealth, yet that very concept is under threat in Ontario due to numerous spending and management scandals associated with the agency entrusted to lead eHealth in that province. Let’s consider what trust means in the eHealth context and challenge us to restore it.
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eHealth 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.
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Order and the Problem of Change
Learning, when done to its fullest, is a disruptive activity that changes the way things are done. Yet, our education system is designed for change on a modest scale. With school back in swing, it is time to welcome the headaches brought by those who truly learn.
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eHealth 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.
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The Food Bank Model of Education and the Tyranny of Resiliency
Resiliency enables us to bounce back from adversity, but like an elastic band too much stretching can lead to breakdown. Food banks, once a stop-gap for food security are now a model for education. Are we stretching a little too far?
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eHealth Isn’t Rocket Science…But Maybe it Should Be
We can learn a lot from the Ansari X-Prize for space that can be applied to the woeful problems of eHealth.
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