• Typically, learning about a community requires a variety of approaches, including gathering existing data and generating new information, combining qualitative and quantitative data, and incorporating the perspectives of a broad spectrum of individuals, organizations, and groups. (cdc.gov)
  • Our deep experience in visualizing, diagnosing and improving networks in organizations, communities and economic & social systems has benefited a wide variety of clients around the world. (orgnet.com)
  • Our experience with hundreds of organizations and communities, will guide you through the network building and weaving process. (orgnet.com)
  • Orgnet LLC helps communities and organizations extract and evaluate patterns and interactions in their business data for opportunities and improvements. (orgnet.com)
  • DataKind is valued as a leading technical partner for many mission-driven organizations ranging from international NGOs to social enterprises to government agencies. (rockefellerfoundation.org)
  • Their approach helps build collaborative networks between organizations, which is crucial in working towards sustainable solutions. (rockefellerfoundation.org)
  • Various organizations and social networks now offer smartphone apps that allow users to report thefts and break-ins, share crime-prevention tips, find missing pets, and even submit photos, video, audio, and locations of suspicious activity. (mentalfloss.com)
  • During public health emergencies, response organizations share advice with affected communities to help them reduce harm and even save lives. (cdc.gov)
  • Private companies and community organizations can also help with insurance filing and finding money to pay for expenses. (medlineplus.gov)
  • I just asked my friends on Twitter what their first social network was (see their responses) , and most gave a varying degree of responses of web based communities, a few claimed early BBS systems -I didn't see anyone claim email. (web-strategist.com)
  • When you think of social networks the big three jump out at you, Facebook, Twitter and Google+. (wpexplorer.com)
  • Since survey studies of political homophily face well-documented methodological challenges, we instead test this proposition on a large sample of politically engaged users of the social-networking platform Twitter, whose ideologies we infer from the politicians and policy nonprofits they follow. (stanford.edu)
  • Nearly everyone is familiar with the stunning success of social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, which together count nearly 100 million members. (cio.com)
  • It's now building out a social network similar to Facebook inside the firewall, as Computerworld has reported. (cio.com)
  • People also make the mistake that Facebook is the largest social network to date, in reality, the largest social networks are email. (web-strategist.com)
  • Well if you agree that Facebook, a private community of your friends is a social network, then so is email. (web-strategist.com)
  • When I started my path as an analyst covering social technologies, I was mainly briefed by social networks like MySpace, Facebook and Community Platforms. (web-strategist.com)
  • To understand how patients ' use of photo-elicitation and online social networks (Facebook) enhances their understanding of what it means to live with pain . (bvsalud.org)
  • The y tackle social problems, strengthen communities, work to improve outcomes and people's life chances and protect the environment. (senscot.net)
  • Specifically, the current review looks at what the literature says about how different groups of vulnerable seniors are affected by social isolation and identifies promising interventions to tackle social isolation and reconnect seniors to their communities. (canada.ca)
  • Aspects of health promotion related to happiness, solidarity, co-responsibility, humanization and social inclusion were identified. (bvsalud.org)
  • Second, a two-pronged approach to addressing social isolation seems warranted, one that combines coordinated policy interventions that can facilitate social inclusion across the general population of seniors with targeted interventions for specific at-risk groups. (canada.ca)
  • Existing social networks can be effective and efficient platforms for efforts in community engagement if they reach people who are central to these efforts and if their members share the goals of the engagement efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • Energy Garden - Over the last two years, the Energy Garden team has supported communities across London to transform 30+ London Overground platforms and stations into thriving gardens and food growing plots. (thersa.org)
  • I address topics such cultural and identity politics, civic engagement and activism, documentation of pressing social issues, and different platforms and institutions involved in photography and documentary film such as art institutions, photo and film festivals. (lu.se)
  • It is important to reach out and pull in key opinion leaders and community stakeholders. (cdc.gov)
  • Footnote 3 This process brings with it new challenges to ensure that the needs of seniors are being adequately addressed by policymakers, service providers, communities and other stakeholders. (canada.ca)
  • In addition to mastering standard organizational network practices, we have pioneered the application of network analysis in many new domains and can help you do the same. (orgnet.com)
  • Ask community officials to organize an event that offers participants the chance to role-play various emergency strategies (or create them if they haven't done otherwise), and learn best practices for staying safe. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Chapter 4 outlined four practice elements for development of a constituency (know the community, establish strategies, build networks, and mobilize communities) and used them to conceptualize the tasks of community engagement (Hatcher et al. (cdc.gov)
  • 2008). In this chapter, we will use these four elements to describe the role and importance of social networks in community engagement. (cdc.gov)
  • Social network analysis (SNA) is a method that can be used to evaluate commu-nity engagement and assess communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Through the community engagement process, new networks can be developed as well. (cdc.gov)
  • Throughout the community engagement effort, relationships must be strengthened and new capacity for collective action developed. (cdc.gov)
  • After noticing that a large number of children were being seen for treatment of dog bites, the investigator identified social networks such as dog owners, school crossing guards, and neighborhood associations and engaged them in understanding the problem, defining workable solutions, and mobilizing the community to put these solutions into action (Pan et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Protect your community during emergencies by organizing a neighborhood watch group. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Nine of the 11 linked mem- bers resided in the same area (neighborhood X) of a rural community (town Y, population 3,500). (cdc.gov)
  • Street Outreach Street outreach commonly involves outreach specialists moving throughout a particular neighborhood or community to deliver risk reduction information and materials. (cdc.gov)
  • Old suburbia tends to be extremely functional and not have the same social or community dynamics. (zephoria.org)
  • How much do mobility and homophilous connections result in not building enough local social solidarity to sustain local business? (zephoria.org)
  • In fact, Microsoft Live is already showing elements of the activity of your personal network right into the context of email. (web-strategist.com)
  • In this context, the issue of social isolation - which has profound impacts on the health and wellbeing of seniors from all walks of life - has come to occupy an increasingly important place in discussions on seniors and aging in Canada. (canada.ca)
  • And sometimes our recommendations don't actually interesect with their culture or their context, their history or their politics, all the stuff that makes up community. (cdc.gov)
  • This entry was posted in Public Health , Research & Science issues and tagged Community-based initiatives , Critical health literacy , Meta-synthesis , Older adults , Qualitative data analysis , Social and cultural context , Systematic Review by Editor Equity/Equidad . (bvsalud.org)
  • A Lynch Syndrome Screening Network was recently launched to accelerate research and implementation of Lynch Syndrome testing. (cdc.gov)
  • Building and sustaining networks of individuals and entities for community health improvement or research includes establishing and maintaining communication channels, exchanging resources, and coordinating collaborative activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Learning about a community, whether it is defined geographically or by a common interest (for example, a health condition or disease) means knowing the community's cultures and institutions, its capabilities and assets, and its health needs and challenges. (cdc.gov)
  • Understanding a community's social networks is essential because of their potential to affect population health. (cdc.gov)
  • For example, traditional healers may be widely known within Hmong or Latino networks but unknown to those outside these social networks, including those working in health care institutions in the same community. (cdc.gov)
  • It is only by bridging to the relevant networks that health care workers can learn about these traditional healers. (cdc.gov)
  • Social networks represent important groups of constituents in any community health planning initiative. (cdc.gov)
  • Both obtaining knowledge about social networks and gathering knowledge from such networks are essential to the development of relevant strategies for health improvement. (cdc.gov)
  • Ultimately, partners and their constituencies must be mobilized to take the actions that will lead to improved community health, and mobilization must be sustained through leadership, communication, and motivation. (cdc.gov)
  • This article aimed to map the significant social networks of women in a community project establishing relationships with health promotion. (bvsalud.org)
  • The network map sought to analyze the structure, function, and attributes of the bond, then the relationships with the founding values of the National Health Promotion Policy were verified. (bvsalud.org)
  • The results of the network map represent health promotion indicators that allowed the development of work, income and leadership in women for the construction of life projects. (bvsalud.org)
  • It reaffirms our understanding of the determinants of health and the measures required to improve the health of populations, communities, families and individuals. (who.int)
  • Street and community outreach, risk reduction counseling, prevention case management, and community-level intervention have been identified as successful health education and risk reduction activities. (cdc.gov)
  • Street and Community Outreach Street and community outreach can be described as an activity conducted outside a more traditional, institutional health care setting for the purposes of providing direct health education and risk reduction services or referrals. (cdc.gov)
  • We set out to create a world-class niche network that raises the levels of information and functionality. (prlog.org)
  • While the current crop of social networks are extremely useful at building a large community, they may not be ideal if you only want to create a small social network for your company, niche interest, sports team, or something else altogether. (wpexplorer.com)
  • The internal social network is now widely used by Sabre Holdings employees to find expertise that would otherwise have been buried within the organization. (cio.com)
  • Founded in 2012, DataKind harnesses the power of data science to enable social change and AI in the service of humanity. (rockefellerfoundation.org)
  • the first & largest social network is humanity, right? (web-strategist.com)
  • Rucio has been originally developed to meet the requirements of the high-energy physics experiment ATLAS, and is continuously extended to support LHC experiments and other diverse scientific communities. (cern.ch)
  • It was found that the significant bonds are concentrated in the family, in community/community project, and in friendships and work relationships, through emotional, material support, and cognitive guidance. (bvsalud.org)
  • I have used Community Polls with ease and had fantastic support so far to get the functionality working as I want it to on my site. (joomla.org)
  • In my social circles, "support your local XYZ" is a collective mantra that is more abstract the experiential. (zephoria.org)
  • During the COVID pandemic the Macedon Ranges Shire Council Council expanded the social support individual- tele/web program, Social Support Individual. (who.int)
  • We made our social calls available to all clients who wished to receive one while they were unable to see family and friends, be out in the community, or have their regular social support workers in their homes. (who.int)
  • The Council is funded to deliver Social Support Individual as part of the Australian Government's Commonwealth Home Support Programme. (who.int)
  • And like so many recent Internet trends, the phenomenon called Web 2.0 or social media is finding acceptance in consumer markets first before working its way inside the corporate firewall. (cio.com)
  • Forrester Research estimates that the market for internal social media applications will reach $4.6 billion by 2013. (cio.com)
  • Enterprise pioneers say the secret to success in social media is to discard assumptions about how tools should be used and to let users experiment. (cio.com)
  • Share it via a community message board, on social media, or at community meetings-or simply give your neighbors a call to tell them your doors are always open. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Also, don't assume every country uses the same social media either. (sitepoint.com)
  • FEMA's Community Emergency Response Team (CERTs) program-which is sponsored at the local level by elected officials or emergency management-teaches community members basic disaster-response skills, including fire safety, search and rescue initiatives, and emergency medical knowledge. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Greater efforts are required to further develop the research on the barriers that specific groups of seniors encounter, and to tailor initiatives that address social isolation to their needs. (canada.ca)
  • Individuals were grateful for the social connection this program offered them, while so much had been limited. (who.int)
  • Some members from communities of color, like Black individuals, may have different views on what a healthy body weight and attractive body size look like. (medscape.com)
  • Hilton Hotels Corp. has engaged with several hundred frequent travelers in just such a community for about two years. (cio.com)
  • And without this passionate and dedicated community, the global nonprofit would have just 21 staffers to cover the hundreds of requests it has received since its inception 10 years ago. (rockefellerfoundation.org)
  • In the next few years, email and social networks will look the same -or be the same. (web-strategist.com)
  • DataKind's staff leads teams of pro bono data scientists to co-create projects with our local partners in the service of underserved, marginalized, and vulnerable communities. (rockefellerfoundation.org)
  • Receive community news in real time from the most knowledgeable of sources-your neighbors. (mentalfloss.com)
  • SENScot is a membership organisation and acts as the umbrella body for social enterprise networks in Scotland - representing, promoting and supporting a network of networks. (senscot.net)
  • Please contact Social Enterprise Scotland if you would like further information on joining the single intermediary for social enterprise at [email protected] . (senscot.net)
  • what is social enterprise? (senscot.net)
  • A social networking service is an online platform that people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. (sitepoint.com)
  • Build community driven polling feature on your website and get feedback on each poll from your users. (joomla.org)
  • In thinking about who these parents knew in their communities, I started wondering about the diversity of the people they were likely to know. (zephoria.org)
  • Who's at Risk and What Can Be Done About It builds on earlier work undertaken by the National Seniors Council (NSC) on the issue of the social isolation of seniors. (canada.ca)
  • You may also want to tell people in your community, at work, school, and religious community. (medlineplus.gov)
  • to the community of members for answers. (cio.com)
  • Also, if you've enabled the "Membership: Anyone can register" option on your main WordPress Settings page, then you'll also have the option to choose Register and Active pages for new members to signup for your social site. (wpexplorer.com)
  • Now, I'm starting to get briefed more and more by email marketing firms who are entering the social space, to appease their clients (email marketers) the first step is they are adding "Share this" (called Social Pollination ) type of features to direct email marketing pieces so friends can share emails with friends in social networks. (web-strategist.com)
  • The concept of age-friendly communities has the potential to underpin a range of interventions that fall within the scope of both approaches. (canada.ca)
  • They give social enterprises a collective voice with which to raise important issues at both a local and national level. (senscot.net)
  • Difficult conversations - The pandemic was a very hard time for many older people, the lack of social connection and ability to see family and friends made it especially difficult. (who.int)
  • Department of Family and Community Medicine. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some companies are taking a hybrid approach by building private communities of customers for use in market research and even product development. (cio.com)
  • Orgnet LLC provides software, training, consulting, and research in the application of network analysis in a wide variety of domains. (orgnet.com)
  • Third, research on social isolation would benefit from greater segmentation, increased reliance on mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative), conceptual clarity and consistency, and exploration of social isolation across the life course. (canada.ca)
  • Using BuddyPress gives you a more private and intimate social network. (wpexplorer.com)
  • Find out the main search sites, ad networks, and communities for the specific countries you want to target. (sitepoint.com)
  • Paddington Development Trust - Made up of employees and volunteers who are involved in a wide range of activities from elected representation on neighbourhood forums through to helping plan and deliver community festivals. (thersa.org)
  • As such they complement suggestions for federal action on social isolation that were made in the National Seniors Council's Report on the Social Isolation of Seniors. (canada.ca)
  • This could especially be true if you don't expect to live in a community for the rest of your life. (zephoria.org)
  • Online e-mails or social networks are a great way to update the people in your life. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Expect large email vendors like Google (Wave shows promise) Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Live to envelop the social experience. (web-strategist.com)
  • It is estimated that up to 16% of seniors experience social isolation (Statistics Canada, 2010). (canada.ca)
  • Here are some tips for keeping your community safe, connected, and supplied when tough times strike. (mentalfloss.com)
  • Three women participating in a community project in a city in the south of Brazil were interviewed. (bvsalud.org)
  • This project aims to provide a platform for like-minded people to come together to network and discuss on new ideas that might lead to the realisation of the global SDGs. (thersa.org)
  • Call recipients were genuinely grateful for the social connection this project allowed them. (who.int)
  • My mind then began chewing on the importance of knowing people in your community to being invested in "buy local" rhetoric. (zephoria.org)
  • has for vision to create a community of change makers who wants to participate in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (=SDG). (thersa.org)
  • It seems to me that kids have much more extensive and diverse local networks than their parents. (zephoria.org)
  • Are informed about community resources and use them. (cdc.gov)
  • Social networks can also provide access to a community and generate knowledge of its characteristics. (cdc.gov)
  • Food pantries are a vital resource during natural disasters, but not all communities have access to one. (mentalfloss.com)
  • We're a group of runners that combines regular exercise with helping our communities. (thersa.org)
  • However, before conducting any outreach activity in a community, an agency must define the specific population to be served and determine their general needs. (cdc.gov)
  • Social Enterprises are businesses that trade in the marketplace with the primary objective of social or environmental benefit. (senscot.net)
  • I would recommend you to enter any affiliate network, which has affiliates for niches you mentioned. (sitepoint.com)