Andre Blackman
Editor, Pulse + Signal | Covering innovations in public/community health | Tech, media, mobile, people

DCWEEK is a festival in the US capital focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds. It’s a series of 100s of distributed events powered by the community and complemented by core conferences, parties, and projects created by the festival organizers iStrategyLabs and Tech Cocktail. DCWEEK...

Ignite events were originally conceived as technology variety shows, but they have grown into much more than that. Ignite is about ideas. Ideas can change the world. And it takes less than five minutes to spread one. Each presenter gets five minutes on stage with 20 slides that rotate automatically after 15 seconds Around the world communities have...

The Walking Gallery is meeting on September 25th, 2011 at The Patients 2.0 Meeting at Health 2.0 in San Francisco, California.  During the rest of the Health 2.0 Conference many Walkers will wear their jackets.  On the final day of the conference we will attend the last session focusing on Patients 2.0 wearing our jackets. It should be amazing....

**By RSVPing here, you will receive an email reminder 30 minutes before the Livestream of the event you've registered for so you can join us online and be a part of the conversation.** Mashable, 92Y and the UN Foundation present the second annual Social Good Summit. Held at the heart of UN week, the Summit is where big ideas meet new media to...

To see who are the attendees at this event and some background information about them (Company, position, title, common connections, etc)
Checkout www.Minglle.com/Nati

This conference brings together individuals representing academia, public health researchers and practitioners from federal and state government and the private sector, and provides...

HealthCamp the Health un-conference comes back to Washington DC thanks to foundation sponsor Kaiser Permanente. The event takes place at the amazing new Center for Total Health.

What started in 2010 as a grass-roots efforts to motivate people to get out and check in is back and now with the support of over 100 local foursquare committees around the world.

On April 16th (4 and 4 squared) foursquare users are self-organizing meetups, lectures, swarms, scavenger hunts, and much more. Foursquare users can visit 4sqday.com to...

The 2011 NCTech4Good statewide gathering will have three events, each promoting nonprofit networking and learning in a different way.

(1) First is a traditional conference, Friday, April 15, 2011 from 8am - 5pm, at The William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. Folks unable to attend in person can participate in the conference sessions from...

Come party and sing your hearts out with your fellow NTCers at the Charityoke: an NPTech Karaoke party. Join us and “shake
it all night long." This is the one NTC celebratory party not to miss. We’ll
provide some drinks, appetizers and the song lists, you provide the noise!

Who: You and your fellow
NTCers

Where: Public Bar, 1214 18th...

Please note that Facebook RSVP does not guarantee a spot at the NTC. Registration will open on November 1, 2010 at http://nten.org/ntc

Future15
6 Easy Ways to Produce Compelling Video (That You Hadn't Thought of Before)
Your video content is 50 times more likely to appear on the first page of search results than your standard text- based content, according to a recent Forrester Research report. Can you see why it's important to include video as part of your content mix?...

Join HealthTap for a morning of lively conversation with healthcare innovators, industry experts, entrepreneurs, developers, social media gurus and other supporters of a new age for health.   Interactive Healthy Brunch with Friends March 14 11:00 a.m.

Join HealthTap for a morning of lively conversation with healthcare innovators, industry experts, entrepreneurs, developers, social media gurus and other supporters of a new age for health!
Chat with Ron Gutman, Founder and CEO of HealthTap, and other health evangelists about the future of personalized, social & interactive health, participate...

Join PBS, NPR, Frontline, ITVS, P.O.V., StoryCorps and Blogads at the Parish for live music and a celebration of South by Southwest.

Music by: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue (http://www.tromboneshorty.com/)

The second annual Tech Cocktail SXSW will kick off the third annual SXSW Accelerator program and showcase 30+ early stage startups for an evening of conversation. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the SXSW Interactive community.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, innovators,...

HCB Health and HealthTap present: iH3Interactive Health Happy Hour Join us for an evening of spirited conversations with healthcare innovators, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers and social media folk. Adult beverages and food will be provided, along with informal gaming and a few live events you won't want to miss: 6:30pm - Introduction...

Are you coming to SXSW and do you love news and information You must come to Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever.   Cohosted and sponsored by Hacks/Hackers, ONA, the Poynter Institute, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, USC Annenberg School of Journalism, JVision Cloud, Scribd, J-Lab, Tableau Software, and more to come. We've got...

We're gathering Austin's best food trucks together for an afternoon of BBQ, tacos, meat pies and more.

Download Foodspotting for Secret Menu items and to participate in a photo scavenger hunt - win prizes!

Featuring the following Food Truck stars:
- Along Came a Slider
- Boomerang's Pies
- Chi'Lantro
- Clem's Hot Diggity...

The legendary Opening Party lives on in a top secret new location. Come see what new tricks frog design has up its sleeve at the biggest, baddest opening bash ever.

Can you really do good for the world and make a profit at the same time?

Come meet the entrepreneurs who have proven you can!

Learn about the whole spectrum of social entrepreneurship from leaders in the field: from for-profit to non-profit to hybrid models, and the training, fellowships, contests and investors you need to help you get your...

We had so much fun last year, we're doing it again...

Wiley Publishing and Austin's Cedar Door have paired up to host 3 hours of free food and drinks in appreciation of our authors and the fantastic group of readers that support them.

Find your way to the corner of Brazos and 2nd Street on Saturday evening and celebrate with us! We hope...

Join PhotoPhilanthropy, Change.org, Demotix, Lights.Camera.Help., and others in a conversation to explore the power of visual imagery and multi-media to advance the mission and communications of non-profits and causes. You will see several great examples of visual content having a big impact on moving constituents – donors, advocates,...

With Fred Graver (Travel Channel), Lila King (CNN iReport), Gavin Purcell (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Chloe Sladden (Twitter), and Timothy Shey (Next New Networks).

How is social media changing the TV experience for good? Over the past ten years, we've seen television become truly interactive, from SMS voting on American Idol to real-time...