Category Archives: Collaboration / Community

Certified Peer Support Specialist in SL

The Guiding Lights group in Second Life offers 6 session course on doing peer support within Second Life. It is put on by Avalon Birke, RL Board Certified Counselor and psychotherapist; Kat Klata, highly experienced online healthcare support person. I … Continue reading

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CorvallisHealth

CorvallisHealth has been a 3 year long experiment in using micro-blogging to help keep a local community healthy. As of July 17, 2012, I am suspending tweeting from this account as I am now employed by a health organization. Until … Continue reading

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Healthcare, 2.0, Social Networking, and Business

As a response to another post over at HIStalk that basically wondered if Healthcare 2.0 and social networking software will help healthcare in the future. I sent in a comment and was published: From John: “Re: Web 2.0. Web 2.0 … Continue reading

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PHR’s and Online Communities

Folks are lamenting the demise of Google’s virtual world, Lively.  There are discussions on how it might have been better integrated with other Google offerings.  I’ll put in my two cents…which I had actually sent to Google as a Lively … Continue reading

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Online Support Group’s Introduction to Virtual Worlds

If you run a healthcare support group online (be that a message board, forum, IRC,  etc…)  and are wondering about jumping into virtual worlds, I hope the following paper is helpful. If you are running a face to face healthcare … Continue reading

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