It appears the volunteer created Relay For Life Flickr community is busting at the seams! As of today there are now over 250 photos posted from all over the country. Here and there staff have been addingphotos but mostly it’s Volunteers. I think this is a great example of how the Society can promote a [...]
Going to be an interesting day. I’m attending a conference at Stanford U entitled "Realizing the Promise: Early Detection of Cancer." Pat Felts, Dr. Georjean Stoodt, and Dr. Cynthia LeBlanc and a cadre of California Division and NHO staff are here as well. The spark-plug for the conference is Dr. Lee Hartwell, ACS Professor, Medal [...]
Try as I might I can’t get June Chan into the habit of blogging on FISpace, so here’s June’s report by proxy.
Dear Colleagues, here’s the latest update of Greater China activities.
Best wishes, June
Translation:
· The pilot translation project with the Hope Society in Taiwan is
in progress. Currently, all five ACS materials had been translated [...]
About everybody feels it’s a good idea to convert paper medical records to electronic ones. Should be more efficient and, hopefully, accurate. The problem is it’s hell getting there. This article covers most of the problems.
One problem is cost; the cost of systems and labor to convert records is prohibitive for small practices.One solution to [...]
Anybody who has read what I’ve posted to FISpace will know
that globalization is a preoccupation of mine. So it’ll come as no surprise
that I immediately snatched up Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World Is
Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. I’d put this one on my
“must-read” list for young careerists, parents, organization leaders…well, just
about [...]
Continuing the exploration of Relay blogging, I was tipped by Mike Mitchell to the BlogPulse tool by Intelliseek. It scans all the blog sites it is aware of and graphs the hits for a key word or phrase like "relay for life" as a percent of all its blog posts.
So here’s the graph of mentions [...]
The Philantropic Giving Index (PGI) Developed at Indiana U., is helpful in judging the success of programs and making decisions about fundraising staratgy.
Since 1998 the PGI has surveyed a panel of knowlegeable senior developmemt officers about the current fundraising climate and what it will be like in six monthes.
In Decenber ‘04 it indicated that [...]
This I like! A new shoe – dubbed Square-eyes – has a unique insole that records the amount of exercise a child does and converts it into television watching time. One button on the shoe – the brainchild of a student at west London’s Brunel University – records the number of steps taken by the [...]
Writer Bruce Sterling writes a biting commentary about the dysfunctional health care system and how some disruptive technologies and processes might change it. Inspired by a book by Clayton Christensen entitiled Seeing What’s Next, he considers some industries perhaps ripe for disruption.
…I searched for the stupidest, most dysfunctional US industry I could
find. The automotive [...]
See Lisa’s post about the Minnesota American Lung Association’s blog. I second Lisa’s congratulations to them for stepping out into the blog-o-sphere.
