Tag Archives: social media

Next Phase of WHO Safe Hospitals Campaign

March 16, 2011 – 11:50 am

M4ID has been supporting WHO South-East Asia in a regional campaign to raise public awareness and push governments to take concrete actions in making hospitals safe from disasters. In brief this means building them to withstand natural disasters, having emergency plans in place, training staff to respond and continue to provide services post-disaster.  We built [...]

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New Course on Crisis Management and Interactive Dialogue Environments

February 10, 2011 – 1:47 pm

Tomorrow we start a new MA course over at Aalto University exploring new media concepts for conflict resolution. The course, called ‘Crisis Management and Interactive Dialogue Environments’, is a continuation of the successful collaboration between WHO, M4ID and Aalto, which resulted in 3 new social media prototypes for WHO’s Health Action in Crises.   Read more [...]

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Design of new Global Campaign

January 4, 2011 – 1:15 pm

M4ID is thrilled to, together with our partner Family, be designing a new global maternal health focused campaign for the Women’s Refugee Commission.  The aim of the campaign is to engage and support a community of experts working on maternal health issues in humanitarian settings.  Building on extensive research, we’re developing a REEAN (reach, entice, [...]

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Jet Li urges 4.1 million fans to support WHO campaign

December 7, 2010 – 9:02 pm

Jet Li has joined our WHO campaign for safe hospitals is disasters and has urged his 4.1 million Facebook followers to do the same.  As an tsunami survivor and an ardent supporter of disaster preparedness, he is a very fitting spokesperson for this Asian-focused campaign. We are really grateful for his endorsement and look forward [...]

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WHO South-East Asia’s first social media initiative

November 1, 2010 – 11:29 am

Ten days ago, WHO South East Asia launched their first social media outreach effort (designed by us!), aiming to engage people in the issue of hospitals safe in disasters. This new approach  is part of their ongoing work to make South-East Asia more disaster prepared. The initiative is spearheaded by a Facebook reaction test [...]

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Namaste India!

August 26, 2010 – 1:57 pm

We’re very excited to be part-taking in a number of events in Delhi over the next week.  We’re firstly going to be talking to the MacArthur Foundation team about new technology approaches to maternal and reproductive health.  We’ll then present our vision of digital advocacy at the Global Conference on Maternal Health, as well as [...]

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Foursquare gains ground

June 22, 2010 – 5:57 pm

Location based service Foursquare is becoming increasingly popular, to the point of being tipped the Twitter of 2010. The mobile phone based service allows people to virtually check-in to a location and earn points, status and coupons. Because the check-in process happens when someone is physically at for example a store, the person can see [...]

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YouTube turns 5 and expands in to South-Africa

May 18, 2010 – 12:12 pm

Google announced through it’s blog that YouTube has launched a  South Africa version. YouTube is teaming up with South African broadcasters to fill the new version with locally produced content, as well as educational content from universities, such as the Rhodes Journalism School.  While YouTube is of course available to anyone on the Internet , [...]

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IFC Online opens tomorrow

May 10, 2010 – 7:59 pm

Can’t wait for the IFC Online webinars to kick off tomorrow, over 300 organizations from 48 countries have registered.  We’re going to be listening in on our co-presenters as well as refining our presentation that takes place on the 12th and 13th.  Check it out here.
Last week we also had an interesting time over at [...]

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Building Capacity

April 15, 2010 – 11:39 am

We’ve got a busy spring speaking schedule coming up.  Over the next weeks, M4ID’s Mari Tikkanen will among others, be one of the 10 global experts speaking at IFC Online, predicted to be attended by 4,000 non-profit professionals worldwide.  Mari will be presenting on how to build an action-oriented online community.
We’re also excited about [...]

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