BlogEx: Final Day

[Treyfish]

<H2 class=date-header>Tuesday, July 29, 2008</H2><!-- Begin .post --><H3 class=post-title>Web Conference On Health Bloggers Today




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A reminder that HHS Secretary Leavitt will be delivering the Keynote Address to this conference, which may be viewed online today.

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The Health Blogoshpere: What It Means for Policy Debates and Journalism


LIVE on Tuesday, July 29 at 1 p.m. ET: View a webcast of a discussion sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation on the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Submit questions before or during the event to ask@kaisernetwork.org.


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Rakesh Singh
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On Tuesday, July 29, the Kaiser Family Foundation is sponsoring a discussion about the growing influence of blogs on health news and policy debates. Only in the past few years has the blogosphere become mainstream. In the health policy arena, we now see policymakers, journalists, researchers and interest groups utilizing this new media tool to deliver information to their audiences.

The briefing will highlight how the traditional health policy world has embraced blogging and will feature a keynote address by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt, the first cabinet officer to author an official blog, followed by a moderated discussion with a variety of health policy bloggers and a media analyst.

Questions to be explored with the panelists include: Why do individuals and organizations blog? How does blogging impact the broader work of an organization? Are there different standards used when blogging versus other writing? Have blogs impacted the news business significantly? What kind of influence are blogs having on political and policy debates?
Welcome and Introduction
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Drew Altman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Kaiser Family Foundation

Keynote Address
The Honorable Michael O. LeavittSecretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Panel Discussion
Vicky Rideout (moderator)
Vice President, Kaiser Family Foundation and
Director, Kaiser Forum on Health Journalism and the News Business

Jacob Goldstein, Wall Street Journal

Michael Cannon, Cato Institute

Ezra Klein, American Prospect Magazine

John McDonough, Office of Senator Edward Kennedy and formerly of Health Care for All in Massachusetts

Tom Rosenstiel, Center for Excellence in Journalism
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WHEN: Tuesday, July 29, lunch served at 12:30 p.m. and program begins at 1:00 p.m.

WHERE: Barabara Jordan Conference Center , 1330 G Street, NW , Washington , DC . For those who cannot attend, the event will bewebcast live.
RSVP: If you plan to attend the event, please send your name and affiliation to rsvp@kff.org.:tiphat:
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http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/web-conference-on-health-bloggers-today.html


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[Treyfish]

Re: BlogEx: Final Day

From a **** good blogger in his own right:tiphat: Tuesday, July 29, 2008

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Today is the last official day of the Southeastern District Health Department's BlogEx pandemic exercise. There is much to see and think about on this website.

My congratulations to Darin Letzring, the All Hazards Planner with the Southeastern District Health Department in Pocatello, and everyone else connected with this project. Hopefully this will inspire others to follow suit, or to come up with some other innovative way to use the Internet to spread pandemic awareness.

July 29: Scenario Update

<SMALL>July 29, 2008</SMALL>
This is an exercise. It is not real.
Good morning. Today is the last day of the blogex. Yesterday?s mock news cast created the situation that pandemic has peaked here in Southeast Idaho. Tomorrow begins the Emergency Operations Center and Alternate Care Site portions of the exercise.

Now ask yourself: What am I doing? What am I eating? What am I drinking? Where are my family and friends? What about my workplace? Consider two, four, six weeks down the road with continued sickness, absenteeism at work, supply chain problems, and deaths. The way to prepare for it is to visualize your daily life amongst all the problems. Some of the simplest things like having enough drinking water could become very difficult.
We?ll have a short wrap-up post in a day or two.:tiphat:
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http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/blogex-final-day.html

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: BlogEx: Final Day

Idaho BlogEx: July 24th Update



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This is an exercise. It is not real.




The Southeastern District Health Department of Idaho continues their online pandemic exercise with the release of updated absenteeism, and fatality figures for this scenario.

There are also 4 videos available to watch, as well.

But of course the big draw to this exercise is the interaction between the SDHD and the participants in the comments.

If you haven't been keeping up, today seems like a slow bird flu news day (so far, anyway), and a good day to do so.

July 24: Scenario Update

<small>July 24, 2008</small>
Pandemic Flu continues to spread in southeast Idaho. Several counties in southeast Idaho have declared a state of emergency and begun establishing, supplying, and finding staff for the alternate care sites (Note: on July 30 and 31, most counties in the district will setup their alternate care sites as part of this exercise). Absenteeism is affecting staffing in most stores, and many service related businesses have decided to close because citizens are not out and about shopping and spending money; instead, they are staying home and following the voluntary isolation measures.


There are currently no travel restrictions in place.


Today?s sickness numbers are posted below. Notice that the fatalities are beginning. I had to take out the population column so the fatalities column would show up (web page design issue). Please refer to the July 23 scenario update for county populations.

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posted by FLA_MEDIC @ 10:58 AM