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Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite.

Social Media Strategery

Development Social Media Crowdsourcing Our Health – Using Social Media to Educate and Unite the Public Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Social Media “Social media on the Internet are empowering, engaging, and educating consumers and providers in health care. Home About Me Speaking Legal-ese My Team Gov 2.0 Government 2.0 Miscellaneous Personal Prof.

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Could the internet make us all nicer people?

The Way of the Web

And you’ll regularly see examples of people failing to realise that what they do online could get them fired, for example. Will it lead to a more pleasant environment, or will it end up like a bad reality show as the pressure of the crowdsourced surveillance becomes too much? But is this carrying over to the offline world?

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Why 'journalists' might need the likes of Wikileaks

The Way of the Web

And perhaps this isn’t the most important piece of news to use as an example of how ‘journalism’ can massively fail when it comes to fact checking (I’m using ‘journalism’ in speechmarks to differentiate from the very fine work a good number of very good journalists continue to do), it’s a timely one. .’

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. crowdsourcing. As a business, that audience is the long tail that needs a great experience.

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Real investments in virtual worlds continue

The Way of the Web

It’s another hugely interesting impact of gaming as the interactive entertainment medium which has risen up to compete with traditional entertainment forms (TV, radio, print), and at the same time powers so many new entertainment forms (Facebook’s gaming population is massive, as one example).

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What Does Government 2.0 Mean to Me?

Social Media Strategery

It’s about updating policies because of the conversations you had on the blog, it’s about using a wiki to deliver better intelligence analysis to our country’s decision makers, and it’s about opening up government data to crowdsource IT development , saving money increasing innovation. Summit site ( [link] ).

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Social Media is Driven by the Person, Not the Position

Social Media Strategery

At EPA, for example, a new employee came up with the idea of doing a contest on YouTube to create outstanding videos to teach people about testing for radon. At EPA, for example, a new employee came up with the idea of doing a contest on YouTube to create outstanding videos to teach people about testing for radon.

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