Utilizing Mobile Technology and New Media to Encourage Mobile Lifestyles
The fast moving, participatory world of social media is embraced by the White House and the CDC, as well as by professional athletes and major corporations. This presentation, given by invitation at the 2010 American College of Sports Medicine Health and Fitness Summit, educates health professionals on the basics and illustrates how social media and mobile technology can be used to promote programs and engage, educate and motivate individuals.
The resources cited or utilized for this presentation are listed below. If you have questions, comments, suggestions, or more examples, feel free to contact me through the ‘contact’ page or post a comment below. I’d love to hear from you!
Basic Guidelines and information
- AIDS.gov Using new media
- CDC eHealth marketing
- FDA’s 2.0 / Social Media Strategy (slideshare)
- The HHS Center for New Media
- Social Media and Web 2.0 in Government
- Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab: Captology
- White House OpenGov
Reports
- ComSCORE, The 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review. A Recap of the Year in Digital Marketing, Feb 2010
- Kaiser Family Foundation Report, Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds. Victoria Rideout, Ulla Foehr and Donald Roberts, January 2010
Pew Internet & American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/ Recent relevant reports include:
- Internet, broadband, and cell phone statistics. Lee Rainie, Jan 5, 2010
- Social Isolation and New Technology. Keith Hampton, Lauren Sessions, Eun Ja Her, Lee Rainie, Nov 4, 2009
- Twitter and Status Updating, Fall 2009. Susannah Fox, Kathryn Zickuhr, Aaron Smith, Oct 21, 2009
- The Social Life of Health Information. Susannah Fox, Sydney Jones, Jun 11, 2009
- Chronic disease and the internet. Susannah Fox, Kristen Purcell, Mar 24, 2010
Policies
mHealth
- Mobile Health News The World Bank Day @ mHealth Summit October 28, 2009
- The pocket spy: Will your smartphone rat you out? Gedes, L. New Scientist, 14 Oct 2009
- EpiSurveyor Project
- GeoChat: Integrating mobile field communications with situational awareness
Examples
- CDC Mobile
- CDC – H1N1 video contest winner
- National Wear Red Day, NHLBI, NIH Wear Red group photo pool on Flickr
- Project Masiluleke
- text4baby
- TSA blog
Terminology
- Smac wiki Wiki of social media definitions
- Webopedia Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions
- What is e-health? G Eysenbach, J Med Internet Res 2001;3(2):e20, 2001
Stats
Journals
- Journal of Consumer Health On the Internet
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
- Journal of Participatory Medicine
Miscellaneous
Staying up to date
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Thank you for posting this material, and many thanks for your highly informative and useful presentation at the ACSM Health and Fitness Summit in Austin.
Ed –
Thanks for your comment. As further evidence of the importance of mHealth, you might want to check out the brand new Pew Internet report, Teens and Mobile Phones. “Daily text messaging among American teens has shot up in the past 18 months, from 38% of teens texting friends daily in February of 2008 to 54% of teens texting daily in September 2009.”