Recently Twitter has been making efforts to clean up the system and get rid of spam accounts. While rather laudable, their method is not without challenges. Last week, during the Gov2.0 Summit downtown, several users who chose to live-tweet the event using the hash tag #gov20e found themselves on the wrong side of the twitter
Vaccine trials funded by NIH have now started at several U.S. universities., and representatives from the CDC have said that they expect to have the vaccine ready by October.
This morning I gave a presentation to members of the Ovarian Cancer of National Alliance about utilization of traditional and social media to advance the mission of their organizations. It doing my research for the presentation I came across the results of a survey of journalists by TopRank Online Marketing that had some surprising results.
Yesterday, Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services, Charles Johnson, declared a state of emergency, due to a recent increase in cases of swine flu (influenza type A H1N1).