Tag Archives: mental health
Online brands: Everything you expected?
February 16, 2011… Many reputation consultants, digital boutiques and ad agencies are paid to improve the opinions, mental pictures and expectations people form of a brand as they get to know it. While it is quite straightforward to measure how sales are impacted after hiring one of these companies, how their efforts actually affect people’s perception of a brand is more difficult to quantify. This basic idea got me thinking about how we can measure people’s expectations in a web environment.
A few years …
Can we crowdsource the planet better?
December 2, 2010… work is IBM’s new iPhone app Creek Watch. Creek enthusiasts provide photos and info on the health of their local waterways; data is uploaded, mapped and shared with climate groups. Over in the UK, Oxford University has come up with Old Weather, an ingenious citizen-science project which gets online volunteers trawling through early 20th century naval records in search of climate data. Apparently, sailors used to record the weather on ship every four hours – not quite the tales of …
Al Gore, crowd, crowdsourcing, crowdsourcing platform, distributed work, fees, Global warming, Greenpeace, Helsinki, IBM, iPhone, Oxford University, samasource, speed limit, txteagle | 1 CommentHow to lose friends and predict epidemics
October 19, 2010… make you ditch your fattening beer-buddies, but rather show how real social networks influence our health, norms and behavior. To be clear, we are not talking about virtual networks like Facebook, but those networks humans have formed for thousands of years, well before the Internet became our one and only master.
Counting our family, friends and work relationships, we are connected to probably hundreds of people. They in turn are connected to hundreds of people, some of whom we are …
Are the Golden Years history?
March 23, 2010… are at play here (unwell people are more likely to retire), multiple studies show that both mental and physical condition deteriorates when not challenged and when one ceases to have a clear purpose for living.
For governments all over the world, finding a way to keep their citizens productive for longer is not just desirable, but essential. Because necessity is still the mother of invention, I suspect that such solutions will be found faster than is expected. While a change in …
Madmen join the game
March 20, 2010Share
Health failing, he cowers behind the bombed-out shell of an armored tank. The enemy is getting close. Too close. There is nothing else for it. He has to move, and move now. Lobbing his last grenade high over the tank to distract his tormentors, he bolts for the safety of the abandoned bunker. Just meters from the entrance, he cops that final, fatal bullet. Lying prone, his vision begins to fail. …
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