Perspectives… | celebrating multiple points of view

Yesterday I moderated a panel on building and planning online communities as part of the E-Marketing Summit  Austin. We were speaking to a large room filled with marketing professionals. The description of the panel said that "every company owner or C-level manager is talking about how to develop an online community strategy." So there’s unprecedented [...]

Gilles Frydman at e-patients.net (where the Greenes and I also blog) has posted a consideration of the term participatory medicine and the evolving sense of its meaning. Gilles starts with his own definition:

Participatory Medicine is a model of medical care actively involving the patient (or the patient’s caregiver as appropriate) as an integral part of [...]

Will you be watching the presidential debate tonight? Alone, or with others? Many folks will be watching at public or private debate parties and gatherings, and many will be hanging out online via chat rooms or Twitter, or they’ll be live blogging. We’re seeing a real surge of civic engagement attributable to sustained support for [...]

When we think about how we can improve public dialog and debate, we have to consider the future of media - that’s where the conversation’s happening, and what we call media has been changing radically over the last couple of decades. In the last century we saw an evolution from print media to broadcast audio [...]

I feel most passionate about two things – one is the the Internet and the other is people and how they communicate, make connections, and form networks. My interest in people led me to the Internet: I wasn’t interested in computers until I learned that you could use them to communicate with whole communities of [...]