By bluerasberry on 2014-05-05
Wednesday 30 April to Friday 2 May I was in DC for a Choosing Wisely meetup. Part of it was hosted by ABIM Foundation and part was hosted by Consumer Reports. When I was there I met other people who work in health communications and we talked about how we get messages to people. One […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, social media, youth
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-21
I am posting some examples of silly ads in this post. These are not my ads and they are not clickable – they are for illustration purposes and I explain them in this post. I do not feel that the mainstream media perspective about Wikipedia or other encyclopedias is reasonable. In this post I am […]
Posted in education, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, book, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-11
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of […]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on 2008-02-10
I visited Gay City on 500 E Pike last week. I was planning on going there anyway, but then I saw an ad on craigslist looking for Seattle bloggers to write about gay rights in other countries. I saw an opportunity to get publicity for S.B. but when I responded, the guy said it had […]
Posted in health, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, data, logistics
By bluerasberry on 2008-01-25
Yesterday I went to Lifelong AIDS Alliance to meet with their director of marketing, Asia Rau. I normally do not pay too much attention to any person’s race but I did notice that this girl did not look ethnically Asian. Lifelong has about a hundred paid staff members and goes through about sixteen million dollars […]
Posted in education, HIV, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged advertising, AIDS, logistics, money