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Share When communicating about what it means to be healthy, people often think of physical health, but not mental health. As we’ve observed in recent events, the discussion around mental health is often couched in stigma and labels. That’s why I’m glad to see a societal and communications shift toward embracing positive mental health with the overall concept of wellness. Wellness is [...] May 15th, 2013 | Tags: #mhblogday, health, healthy, mental health, mental health blog day, Wellness | Categories: Social Issues
3 comments | Share: Share On Tuesday, Vanguard joined many others in wishing Willie Nelson a Happy Birthday with our very own farmer-inspired song. 2013 has seen much debate over employer policies, from telecommuting to wellness. Maybe taking your pet to work will help you resist the temptation of LOLCats? Google world domination? A Google executive predicted that by 2020, everyone in the world [...] Share At last week’s Social Media Week DC session, Get Smart! Make Better Social Media Decisions through Analytics, speaker Dan Soschin recognized that there are dozens of platforms for dozens of audiences, and sometimes social change communicators think they need to have accounts on all the top social media platforms to make a difference. Soschin’s solution [...] February 26th, 2013 | Tags: analytics, communications, communicators, Dan Soschin, Facebook, Google Analytics, measurement, metrics, ROI, ROO, SMWWDC, social change, social media, Social Media Week, Social Media Week DC | Categories: Integrated Media Services
Leave a comment | Share: Share This week, I attended the When Story Turned Social: At the Intersection of Storytelling and Social Media workshop, part of Social Media Week DC, and hosted by Pride Collaborative/StoriesLead. There, speakers discussed thematic storytelling. A consistent message of the storytelling movement has been that telling stories of real people — of their hardship, triumph, failure, success — will move others to [...] February 22nd, 2013 | Tags: black history month, meograph, rosa parks, SMWWDC, social change, social media, social media storytelling, Social Media Week DC, social storytelling, storytelling, zeega | Categories: Social Issues
Leave a comment | Share: Share On Tuesday, I attended an election briefing hosted by a national Latino-focused group. The panelists spoke in Spanish and English, but they didn’t always offer questions or responses in both languages. Being bilingual, it wasn’t a problem for me; however, the panelists made some excellent commentary in Spanish only, leaving English-only speakers at a deficit. Source: Daquella manera’s Flickr page As [...] October 25th, 2012 | Tags: anthropology, bilingual, communicators, cultural competency, diversity, majority-minority, multicultural, Project 2050, translation | Categories: Multicultural Outreach, Social Issues
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