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Pink Out - OSU's women's gymnastics and basketball breakfast at 10 Feb 18th. http://t.co/Cf7rmOlJ 1 week ago
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Category Archives: Collaboration / Community
Gamification and Satisfaction
I happened upon Sebastian Deterding’s Slideshare “Meaningful Play Getting Gamification Right” (Thx Giuliano) and was struck how it resonated with Dan Pink’s talk “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us“. Dan puts forth modern behavioral studies which show that … Continue reading
Internal Communities & SharePoint 2010 Discussion Groups
Microsoft has baked a lot of social media goodies into the latest iteration of SharePoint (2010). While the spot light has been on My Sites, I took a quick look at the venerable Discussion Board. While at first glance it … Continue reading
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Healthcare Community Management Related Research
I’m passionate about the use of online communities, with people helping each other in the area of healthcare. Below is a list of some of the research I have done, and put up on the web, concerning healthcare community management: … Continue reading
New life for Virtual World Support Groups?
Login2Life is a theatrical documentary about the real and in-world lives of several people. The teaser trailer includes scenes with Alice Krueger, a tireless proponent for virtual world’s being able to help people with real life health issues. (Spoiler: 1st … Continue reading
Virtual World Design and Healthcare – Beyond walking a web page
There are hundreds of healthcare support groups in the virtual world of Second Life, but how does one educate a visitor about them? HealthInfo Island started out with a simple list of support groups, then created a path with posters. … Continue reading
2 Tweets: “We’re #3!” or “We like peas, fresh now!”
Is a health org’s social media a Marketing or Public Health initiative? I know I’ve seem a lot more of the former than the later. Perhaps this is a false dichotomy, you say, and indeed it may be. However, from … Continue reading
Folders Vs Metadata – Document organization
Moving from the familiar desktop metaphor, with it’s storing files in folders, to metadata can be difficult, if not traumatizing for those used to the more spacial way of putting things in context. To help introduce and explain, I came … Continue reading
Technology Adoption and Crossing the Chasm
Projects fail, promising technologies are put in place but never adopted, IT rolls out another application that only a few business people use. Where’s the disconnect? How might things be improved upon? Here’s 10 well considered ideas from an expert.
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Opportunities for Transformative Tech
IT tools are often introduced into an organization with little to no use by its members. I’ve been doing research as to why and recently read Connie Gersick’s work on the idea of change manifested through Punctuated Equilibrium Paradigm*. I … Continue reading
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On “The 2011 State of Community Management Report”
If you took a room full of online community management experts and had them write down their most valuable tips on 3×5 cards you could get something like “The 2011 State of Community Management Report“. Each finely tuned sentence only … Continue reading
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