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Social Media/Web Development Intern Needed

Hey All, We are looking for a new Intern for the American Cancer Society’s Austin Corporate Office. The intern will be working on a variety cutting edge projects in the online space. Everything from raising donations on Facebook to building web pages on cancer.org to helping us with our Code Against Cancer event in December.  Help us in the worldwide ...

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Social Media Mashup – Tweetup Blood Drive

You may remember our Tweet Up Blood Drive awhile back. Well our good friend Kristine Gloria took it a step further and made a “Mash-Up” of the whole event. She also wrote an amazing Social Media case study on the event. You can check the video she made below.  If your looking for the case study hit her up on ...

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2.0 Attitude!

The values and attitudes inspired by the “Web 2.0” movement of recent years are spilling into health information practices. Blogs, Wikipedia, YouTube and many other sites have supported a sense of empowerment that challenges the traditional authority of many professions. “User-generated” content and “participation” are core values of what I like to call “2.0 Attitude.” This is having a significant ...

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Cease and Desist!

This third post in the FISpace Video Reports series is about the confrontation that has recently developed between companies providing personal genomics services and state medical testing authorities. Genetic information services with direct-to-consumer sales of various forms of genetic testing have been sent cease-and-desist demands by authorities in California and New York. So far the main gene services companies are ...

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