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By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
On Sunday 21 July I went to a conference called “reRoute” hosted by the New Economics School and held at New York University. The conference was for what I would call young leaders in the consumer movement, although the attendees would not call themselves that. I am not sure what they call what they are […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, Open access, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-23
I went to Boston to present on Friday 19 July at Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class at Tufts University. It was called “5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication“. I gave an overview of the health content on Wikipedia and suggested that anyone with a health message to share could share it […]
Posted in Boston, education, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged classes, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-04-22
Saturday and Sunday April 20-21 I attended the annual conference of Students for Free Culture held at the New York Law School. At the end of the conference there was an organizational meeting in which the board proposed and got approval to change the name of the organization from “Students for Free Culture” to “Free […]
Posted in computer, legal, New York City, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-19
From March 14-15 the Cato Institute hosted a Wikipedia meetup. The major outcome of this event was the creation of a WikiProject to develop Wikipedia articles on US Federal Government legislation. At the same time I was attending the conference of the Consumer Federation of America, so I was only able to attend this after […]
Posted in DC, education, legal, non-profit, Open access, rights | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, meetup, Pete Forsyth
By bluerasberry on 2013-03-18
I attended Consumer Assembly, which is the Consumer Federation of America annual conference. Their program gives the agenda of what happened over March 14-15. Elizabeth Warren, friend of the Consumer Movement, was opening speaker and encouraging of all the work we did. I went to sessions on mobile privacy and warning labels and attended the […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, presentation, rights, work | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-25
Wikipedia Day 2013 in New York City was held on Saturday 23 February at the Tisch School of the Performing Arts. So many people I wanted to see were there, including most of Wikimedia NYC, Mike Christie and Jami Mathewson from the Wikipedia education program, Adam Hyland user:Protonk who has helped me in the education […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, Eric Hellman, Jake Orlowitz, Jami Mathewson, Jennifer Baek, Mike Christie, Tom Sulcer, videography
By bluerasberry on 2013-02-24
I arrived back from India on Saturday 16 February. Monday was President’s Day so I did not go to work. Tuesday I returned to work and prepared for the Choosing Wisely phase II press event. I had left Varanasi in good health but I think I ate bad food either at the airport or on […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, non-profit, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, fundraiser
By bluerasberry on 2012-11-05
The 2012 Seattle HVTN conference was from Monday 29 – Wednesday 31 October. I went to Seattle for that and to see friends. I flew to Portland on Friday 26 October to attend the Wiki Loves Libraries event organized by Jason Moore, user:Another Believer, on Saturday 27 October. We went out for breakfast, did the […]
Posted in clinical research, HIV, legal, non-profit, Open access, research, rights, Seattle, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Adbusters, Brian Glanz, Christopher Sheats, coffee, conference, HVTN, Jacob Caggiano, Lisa White, Open Knowledge Foundation, Patrick, Patrick Earley, Victoria Chinnell
By bluerasberry on 2012-10-16
I am working for Consumer Reports on a project to improve the quality of health articles on Wikipedia. This is part of an educational outreach campaign called Choosing Wisely. There is a large amount of information about Choosing Wisely on the Internet – just lately I realized that hundreds of news sources have been covering […]
Posted in education, health, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Choosing Wisely, conflict of interest
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-12
On three of us members of the HIV Vaccine Research Unit Community Advisory Board made a video to inform potential new members about what it would mean for them to join our group. The video was to have two purposes – to introduce HIV vaccine research and to introduce the concept of layman meeting in […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, drug, education, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged HIV vaccine, videography