I deactivated my Facebook Account. Is LinkedIn next?
I am a big fan of everything Web 2.0, including social networking. I just decided that the negatives of Facebook outweighed the positives and deactivated my account. Why? First, what I liked about...
View ArticleOnline social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com
I think the The Economist does a nice job describing the state of social networking and its future fate: Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com In the end, we’ll just all have...
View ArticleThe State of the Facebook Platform : In Decline (Does This Make Me an Early...
See: The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits. The number of active users has declined 27 % since January. Early adopters are leading the pack out. I deactivated in December, 2007 (See: “I...
View ArticleBaylor Medical Center of Irving. | Facebook
Baylor Medical Center of Irving. | Facebook – Example of discussion between patients and providers on Facebook. As presented at Health 2.0 and the KP Ragan Conference, week of June 7, 2010. Similar...
View ArticleHow Facebook and Twitter kept me in touch in the hospital | Social Media |...
How Facebook and Twitter kept me in touch in the hospital | Social Media | Macworld – Interesting account, in Macworld of all places, of a patient experience using social media in the hospital to stay...
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Walk With a Doc – Washington, DC , August 10, 2012
The second Walk with a Doc community walk will be on August 10, 2012, leaving from the front of the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health (@kptotalhealth) in Washington, DC Feel free to invite...
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Now Reading: Behavior Change, other industries, another example : Voting,...
All I see are six packs and thin people when I drive through this neighborhood. Is everyone here thin? Where I live, everyone looks like me. (taxi driver to Ted, morning of September 17, 2012) He’s...
View ArticleShould Your Doctor Friend You on Facebook? (Quoted on Mashable)
Should Your Doctor Friend You on Facebook? (Quoted on Mashable). As the title says, I was quoted in this piece published on Mashable.com (@mashable), written by Andrea Smith (@andreasmith). And, she...
View ArticleJust Read: Facebook leads in specifying accurate gender identity; electronic...
There’s no mistaking that the world is changing; it’s learning to love better. This is Facebook’s announcement of a significant change in the way it allows people to identify their gender. I’ve...
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Just Read: Reaching the limits of open data and name authenticity: The Circle
Eggers D. The Circle. Vintage Books; 2013. Amazon.com – Download from your local library The flash opened up into something larger, an even more blasphemous notion that her brain contained too much....
View ArticleJust Watched: “Managing Unconscious Bias” , for Facebook employees
Via the magic of Twitter, I was treated to access to Facebook’s publication of their own Managing Bias training for their employees. It’s an approximately one hour video of an actual training, also...
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Just Read: Debunking the “Bathroom Bill” Myth: Accurate Reporting on...
Any journalist or communication professional reporting on LGBTQ issues should read this guide. And yet, they don’t take the time to use proper terminology, as professionals in their own business. It’s...
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You can look at the comments. My experiment in ending transphobia. What you...
The photograph that provided the substrate for the natural experiment: 2016.05.21 Capital TransPride Washington DC USA 0395 (View on Flickr.com) I’ve written about this topic a few times. Finally I had...
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A few thoughts about gender equality and respect in the 21st Century
2016.03.30 Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index Best Places to Work Reception 03870 (View on Flickr.com) I recently finished Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead...
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Just Read (and discussed with my mother): Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Sheryl Sandberg) I know I’ve come to this book 3 years later than the rest of society, and I don’t actually know why I picked it up – I think someone told...
View ArticleI deactivated my Facebook Account. Is LinkedIn next?
I am a big fan of everything Web 2.0, including social networking. I just decided that the negatives of Facebook outweighed the positives and deactivated my account. Why? First, what I liked about...
View ArticleOnline social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com
I think the The Economist does a nice job describing the state of social networking and its future fate: Online social networks | Everywhere and nowhere | Economist.com In the end, we’ll just all have...
View ArticleThe State of the Facebook Platform : In Decline (Does This Make Me an Early...
See: The State of the Facebook Platform | 20bits. The number of active users has declined 27 % since January. Early adopters are leading the pack out. I deactivated in December, 2007 (See: “I...
View ArticleBaylor Medical Center of Irving. | Facebook
Baylor Medical Center of Irving. | Facebook – Example of discussion between patients and providers on Facebook. As presented at Health 2.0 and the KP Ragan Conference, week of June 7, 2010.
View ArticleHow Facebook and Twitter kept me in touch in the hospital | Social Media |...
How Facebook and Twitter kept me in touch in the hospital | Social Media | Macworld – Interesting account, in Macworld of all places, of a patient experience using social media in the hospital to stay...
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