At its core social media is not about technology, it’s about story-telling — or perhaps more accurately “story-sharing” — and the key to good story telling is to achieve emotional impact. Take for example social media created using Google Street View images. Google Street View (GSV) cars have been canvassing the roads of more than [...]
It doesn’t take much to change someone’s worldview. Often, all you have to do is use different words to say the same thing. Watch: How do we find the right words to change aging? H/T to Dan Vock.
Artist and filmmaker Lee Boot, a good friend and former colleague of mine at UMBC’s Imaging Research Center, is one of those idealist types who wants to save the world through art. It’s a radical idea, but you have to admit our conventional approaches to problem solving — such as politics, medicine, technology and consumerism [...]
Master The Conversation Wow. NPR is “sponsoring” local political bloggers around the country to bolster online political reporting. They even flew a bunch of blog talent to NPR’s D.C. headquarters for a blog workshop. Azi Paybarah of the New York politics blog The Empire shared the spoils of this workshop: Paybarah explains: My favorite part [...]
Did you miss Dr. Bill Thomas’ keynote speech streamed live from the Green House Project annual conference? Don’t worry, you can replay it below! Stay tuned for special live-streamed panels featuring elders and shahbazim viewable at The Green House Project blog: September 29th @ 4:15-5:15p EDT Elders Rule! Panel of Elders Talk about a Life [...]
Where do you get your daily dose of news online? Do you use an RSS feed reader, such as Google Reader? Do you bookmark your favorite sites and navigate to them daily? Do you get all the news you need from your friends on Facebook? Or, like me, do you do all the above plus [...]
Here’s a must-read piece from NPR detailing the explosive growth of social networking among 50 and older adults. Full-disclosure, I used to work with both the report’s author, Mary Madden, a great researcher at the Pew Research Center, and the NPR reporter, Joshua Brockman, who wrote the story. But I came across this piece randomly [...]
Looking at Dr. Bill’s social media call-to-action below, I’m reminded of just how big an opportunity social networking gives us to leverage community to effect social change. As a former journalist and history student I try to avoid using hyperbole to describe our current state of affairs; BUT we do live in a time of [...]
ChangingAging.org will soon be announcing a major new partnership with the Picker Institute, the leading foundation advocating person-centered care, and the Erickson School of Aging Studies, to promote healthcare reforms that put people at the center of care, rather than technology and bureaucracy. Bill and I shot a video teaser to promote the new campaign. [...]
One of America’s largest and most influential membership organizations is trying to get a little more socially networked — online, that is. AARP, which claims more than 40 million members nationwide, announced this week that it has overhauled its website in an attempt to “keep up with the changing needs of the 50+ generation, focusing [...]