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Recap of Unite for Sight '09 Global Health Conference, and Innovative Open Health Tools

Forum One

Susan Blumenthal , with whom I had the pleasure of traveling to Israel last year, spoke of an initiative during her tenure as the Assistant U.S. through which she convinced the DoD, CIA, and NASA to convert the same technology used to track missiles in space into machines that detect breast cancer and save thousands of lives.

Global 52
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Social Notworking and Other Social Networking Challenges

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About two months, again I used to illustrate this post when I read Shel Israel's post " Is Facebook starting to fade? I interviewed some digital natives last week about their use of causes and one thing they mentioned as application fatigue -- don't respond to every request to join a cause and delete them. Fatigue or Plateau?: