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Ten Tips for Changing Health Behaviors (and Saving Lives)

Most Americans know what's killing us. Stop smoking, eat better, exercise, and wear your seatbelt — just those four simple steps, alone, could save hundreds of thousands of lives every year. Here are 10 ways to help people hear that message.

Fear and Excitement about Online Community Building and Health Journalism

Susan Mernit and Staci Baird, social media gurus, had a message for reformed journalists and New Media entrepreneurs participating in our pilot program melding online community engagement and health journalism: "We come in peace."

Media Social

10 online news outfits promise to share and share alike — if one doesn't die in the night.

What do you think about Storify?

What is Storify? Good question! It's a new web product that announced its public beta this week, meant to help build stories conveniently pulling from social media sources such as Twitter, YouTube, etc.

Below is an example of a story I just created to give you a feel for what's possible. Seems like a very convenient way to aggregate sources from social media. What do you think?

Journalists learn more about blogging, social media tools at AHCJ

Though blogging and social media have been around for some time now, some people still argue that blogging, social media and journalism should be independent of one another. Scott Hensley of NPR's Shots blog contends that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Sleeping Online, and a Social Media Journalist's Ideas about the Internet

Last summer, Paul Balcerak slept on the Internet, and experience that showed him new ways that social media can be useful to journalists. This week at Career GPS, Balcerak answers questions about what he learned. Also find new health media job opportunities.

Prescription Drugs, Public Engagement, Making a Difference

Using New Tools to have New Conversations, Noozhawk hopes to establish a New Framework on our community's most pressing issues.

Journalism stars come out for AHCJ Health Journalism 2011 conference in Philadelphia

It makes for a sad spring when I can’t attend the annual Association of Health Care Journalists conference.

The Great Potassium Iodide Panic of 2011

Once the Great Potassium Iodide panic began, most Americans received messages saying “Don't Panic” on Twitter, on Facebook, the Internet. And that was the responsible media thing to do, right? Here's what may be wrong with that approach, neurologically speaking.

SXSW Interactive: Examining health and Facebook with Aimee Roundtree

Many media and health advocacy groups take for granted these days that Twitter and Facebook are essential to reach readers and constituents. But a panel at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive shed new light on how we use those social media tools. Aimee Roundtree, an associate communications professor at the University of Houston-Downtown, has been examining health communication in social media for five years. She says health advocacy groups are using Facebook the same way they would traditional media.

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