DoD needs your ideas around psychological health and TBI

Posted March 4, 2009 by Matthew
Categories: military

As most readers know, I am the social media lead for Health.mil and today I want to give a shout out to the Defense Centers of Excellence (DCoE) for opening up their doors to agencies, organizations and individuals to submit ideas and concepts with regard to psychological health or traumatic brain injury.

As the blog indicates:

Submitters are asked to include evidence for their submissions, as we are looking for evidence based tools. Two subject matter experts review all submissions and determine their relevance to DCoE’s mission and the level of evidence to support it. If the concept is relevant and has sufficient evidence, the reviewers determine what audience is appropriate for the submitter, and they are invited to share their ideas either in person or through teleconference/VTC.

This is a great step in creating a more open dialogue and pulling in the knowledge and experience to get the best ideas implemented.  I’d like to see DCoE open up the process even more by letting everyone see what has been submitted and have the submissions voted on by others in the health community.   We will get there.

If you have a concept or idea, go ahead and submit it here!

Taste the Rainbow

Posted March 2, 2009 by Matthew
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I am loving the new Skittles.com! Notice how the content disclaimer pops up before you can even access the site. How’d they do that?

Meg Whitman for Governor

Posted February 12, 2009 by Matthew
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I sure hope not! Gawker has some good analysis:

She talks about the 1.3 million jobs she “created” among people making their business selling goods on eBay. But most of those people were already in business, and just found a new sales outlet on eBay. How did Whitman help them? By raising listing fees and forcing them to use eBay’s PayPal, increasing her company’s cut of their sales. She also overpaid for acquisitions, including $2.6 billion on Skype, a voice-over-Internet startup which had little to do with the rest of eBay’s business.

Her career as eBay’s CEO, in other words, looks like that of a tax-and-spend liberal. A spokesman for Whitman characterized her as “retired and bored” just a few months ago. Any bets on how long before this quixotic attempt at politics, fueled by her $1.4 billion eBay fortune, ends with her being retired and bored once more?

You know she’s doing it for more power.

Republicans good for balance

Posted February 3, 2009 by Matthew
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Sure, we need an economic stimulus and we need it fast. However, we need to make sure it is stripped of wasteful spending. Being a fiscal conservative, I’m with the Republicans on this one. Sorry, Mr. President, but it’s time to take charge and stand firm against wasteful pet projects that won’t do anything to stimulate the economy.

Here’s to the Republicans, who will certainly bring balance and debate to our great democracy.

Verizon FiOS days are numbered

Posted January 14, 2009 by Matthew
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Well, at my household that is. Verizon FiOS, being the greedy smucks they are, required a 2-year contract for our TV/internet package. We’re at the 1 year mark and the service has only worsened since it was first installed. Our DVR works a quarter of the time, wireless is out half the time, video on demand is out 3/4 of the time.

My family in Maryland has loved the service so what gives Virginia? Too much demand?

Verizon, you have one year and counting to improve your service or I’m going back to COX. And I never thought I’d say that but COX was an outstanding service provider in comparison.

FEMA Press Conference on Twitter

Posted January 8, 2009 by Matthew
Categories: emergency management, public relations/marketing, technology

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The FEMA Administrator will be on Twitter on Monday, Jan. 12 to discuss the direction of the Agency.  I hope he lets us know whether he thinks FEMA should stay within Homeland Security or be a stand-alone entity.

The Press Conference Deets:

When: Monday, January 12, 2009 from 3 – 3:30 pm EST
Where: FEMA’s Twitter profile
Who: FEMA Administrator David Paulison

I will be listening!

Until 2009

Posted December 23, 2008 by Matthew
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After a rough trip to Texas this past weekend to visit my dying grandfather and my Alzheimer’s stricken grandmother, I’m excited to head off to sunny Florida for the rest of the year to visit more family and friends.

Life is way too short to put the family on the back burner, especially during the holidays.

Many wishes of love and peace for 2009! And to our Troops, thank you for all that you do day in and day out. I hope you get to spend time with your families this year and many more to come.

Stand By Me…From Around the World

Posted December 12, 2008 by Matthew
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The Oprah Show to broadcast from DC

Posted December 4, 2008 by Matthew
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According to DCist, Oprah Winfrey is bringing her show to the Kennedy Center during Inauguration!

HellllOOOOOOO Washington!

Right Lane Finally Ends T-Shirts Available

Posted December 4, 2008 by Matthew
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One of my friend’s relatives has a new t-shirt design available for purchase.  Just in time for the inauguration!

Check out Diserio Image – Change Tee

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