Texting 4 Health @ Stanford University - Feb 29

Sunday, February 10. 2008

Janice Nall at the Center for Disease Control (Division of eHealth Marketing (eHealth)) passed on info about this event they are co-sponsoring on February 29 with Stanford University and others on using SMS to improve health behavior, with the imperative:

Text messaging is the only viable interactive means of reaching people on a massive scale around the world. This event will highlight the significant, untapped potential for changing health behavior through this channel.

Looks like a great panel of speakers. More information here:
http://texting4health.org/

FYI - Janice is also speaking at our Tuesday February 26th Web Executive Seminar on "Social Sites for Social Good" about the use of social networking and social media. The seminar is at the National Press Club in Washington DC from 8-11 AM. Registration and more information.

Another FYI - Forum One is also hosting an event on mobile communications - entitled "Mobile Communities Unconference" in Palo Alto, CA on March 20th. Registration and more information.

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