Daniela Simmons, Founder and President of DANIEL DOMES offered this comment as a followup to her experience with the recent Eden Alternative International Conference. She also gives us a heads up on some of her latest plans. I wish her well. I have been an advocate of culture change, ethical and quality care and implementing […]
Continue ReadingLooking at Dr. Bill’s social media call-to-action below, I’m reminded of just how big an opportunity social networking gives us to leverage community to effect social change. As a former journalist and history student I try to avoid using hyperbole to describe our current state of affairs; BUT we do live in a time of […]
Continue ReadingThe mainstream media continues to reinforce negative stereotypes about elders and people who work with elders. We are going to have to use new social media and social networking tools in order to tell our story — our way. I am inviting you to join this growing online conversation. We can tell our stories. We […]
Continue ReadingMedia types, well old media types, always tell you that older viewers/listeners/readers aren’t worth ANYTHING. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. That’s why this story caught my eye. The Wall Street Journal notes that The View — with 3.8 million viewers each day — is “tilting away from simple celebrity plugs and devoting more time to weighty political […]
Continue ReadingFacebook recently announced that its member base is growing at the fastest rate ever, just after it displaced Google to become the top U.S. web site by total number of Web pages viewed (and after studies indicated that Facebook is the most frequently accessed Web site by workers on the job! But that’s another discussion). […]
Continue ReadingBy Kavan A frequent theme in my Editor’s blog posts about using social media to pursue culture change is the idea of using social media to create new narratives. As a society, we see ourselves through certain lenses, or narratives, and act accordingly. Going to school, getting a job, getting married, having kids and buying […]
Continue ReadingAs editor of ChangingAging.org, I’ve been helping Bill harness the power of social media and the web to spread the message that there are positive alternatives to the declinist, anti-aging paradigms that dominate our society. Starting today, I’d like to share some of our social media techniques and strategies in a regular weekly blog post. […]
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