Mobile technologies have great potential to optimize health management and communication. The Texting 4 Health conference, which took place on February 29, 2008 at Stanford University, highlighted how cell phones were being leveraged by medical professionals, public health organizations and others. ...

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a 20 year old non-profit that produces anti-drug public service advertising campaigns and educational resources for parents, teens, adults and others. Currently, the Partnership is producing two initiatives, "Check Yourself" (which is targeted tow...

In September 2009, the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Marketing released a research brief focusing on how to communicate with teens (people aged 12-17 years old). Some of the key findings of CDC's report include: Teens use technology to share information through social netw...

On February 12, we devoted one of the Path of the Blue Eye Project's Casual Conversation Webinars to the important, but difficult issue of transparency in social media.  It's expected that health organizations engage in transparent behaviors while using social media and beyond, but is this expe...

As the recession continues, so do cutbacks. So, we’ve listed 20 of the better (and free) online reputation monitoring tools in order to help you engage with the onslaught of social media.