Andre Blackman graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with an undergraduate degree in Public and Community Health. As a child and young teen, he's been involved in a fair share of projects and internships involving science and technology issues. In college, he made the decision not to become an aerospace engineer simply because he figured that he wouldn’t get the chance to meet exciting new people and discuss things that mattered to him. He sees himself as a “people person."
All of that mixed together with his passion for wanting people to live healthy lives and you have his current project, Antibio.tech. Using his interests in technology and social media, he wants to blend a passion for health education and health promotion into something useful for the new generation.
He currently resides in Silver Spring, MD with his wife.
Andre Blackman's blog is Pulse & Signal.
My good buddy Ryan over at Socialmediaworx brought this video and campaign to my attention. The Girl Effect is shaping up to be a great campaign that is helping to make the world a better place, one young person at a time.
And the reality of how quickly this video can travel across the web and […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Video Communication and the Spread of Ideals”, url: “http://pulseandsignal.com/2008/08/17/video-communication-and-the-spread-of-ideals/” });
No, not Phelps. Everything in swimming is Phelps. But not this one. This is even better–here is one swimmer who’s showing me how I can convince others to try new things.
Since I started blogging back in October of 2007, I have always been working toward providing relevant information to those that may come by and read. I started out with a pretty general focus, covering anything related to both health and technology, also trying to combine the two topics. I came up with some pretty […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Signaling A New Direction”, url: “http://pulseandsignal.com/2008/08/08/signaling-a-new-direction/” });
(Photo Credit: Wicho)
The field of social marketing is growing and I love that. As more people, especially online, get to understand the importance of trying to use communication/marketing tools to bring about better health (which is my mission) and positive behavior changes, the better things will be in my opinion.
My good friend Alex recently put […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Great Blog Resources for Social Marketing”, url: “http://pulseandsignal.com/2008/07/24/great-blog-resources-for-social-marketing/” });
So last week I had the honor and opportunity to be on Jonny Goldstein’s Partay - along with two wonderful friends of mine, Qui Diaz and Alex Rampy. We were there to talk about the benefits, innovations and overall understanding of social marketing. Much of the evening was spent highlighting our respective passions within the […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Community, Comraderie and Feeling Good”, url: “http://pulseandsignal.com/2008/07/23/community-comraderie-and-feeling-good/” });
…despite our busy schedules and technology-driven, plugged in lives - now is the perfect opportunity to take some time out for one of the most important people you know…yourself!
I decided to peruse Flickr for some images and these are a few ads I came up with and wanted to share with you. Take a moment to look at everything each ad has to offer and then think about why it would be effective for people in that day.
Health 2.0 is participatory healthcare. Enabled by information, software, and community that we collect or create, we the patients can be effective partners in our own healthcare, and we the people can participate in reshaping the health system itself.
Last week I came across an interesting organization called the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation, which deals with connecting science and communications for the betterment of consumer health.
As you all know, I’m all about making use of emerging web technologies to further health communications. One of the most useful web tools that I have grown completely enamored with is Twitter, the micro-blogging platform that has become useful in many different ways […]
