you can be as thin as a holocaust survivor: health promotion gone horribly, horribly wrong

January 9, 2012

in an unbelievable and deplorable stunt, a dubai gym used this image in an ad campaign. on their twitter stream, you’ll see them explain that “the creative guy has been told where to go.” and “the campaign remit was to provoke…not upset.” and my personal favorite, “it was posted without being properly checked.” i’m struggling to [...]

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shapeup uses their data (and others’) to create a corporate wellness infographic

January 9, 2012

data at your fingertips, thanks to shapeup’s corporate wellness infographic. they created this infographic using data from their annual employer wellness survey, which they’ll be reviewing during a free webinar on january 12 at 2pm. [Source: ShapeUp] f

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IBM patents an eat-to-earn system

January 5, 2012

around the same time you were pondering a resolution to eat better in the new year, IBM was patenting an idea that might make that easier. long known for their incentive- and technology-based approach to improving employees’ health as well as a value-based benefit approach to health care, IBM has developed a solution that guides [...]

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tikkun olam | repair the world

December 21, 2011

i haven’t a clue how to write a meaningful holiday note without it being too twee. i could share my holiday wish list for my time off. i could outline the list of people for whom i’m truly grateful. i could write a top 10 list or review the wonderful projects, the creation of new products [...]

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the creative process (or, kill me now)

December 20, 2011

a colleague sent this to me after reading my post on the creation of the stop sign. f

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we’re not comfortable as health care consumers

December 19, 2011

a new, brief study by altarum institute finds that we’re simply not comfortable being health care consumers. as part of the study, altarum asked 3,000 people to answer basic questions like: what kind of health care insurance do you have? what role would you prefer to play in important decisions about your medical treatment? have you [...]

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free-ranging conversations: hellowallet helps employees budget for today and save for tomorrow

December 16, 2011

  hellowallet is an enterprise solution that employees can use to wrap their hands around their financial situation and improve it. i spoke with paul ballas, head of user experience at hellowallet, to understand the service and hellowallet’s mission to “democratize financial guidance.” fm: why hellowallet? what’s the idea behind the service? pb: matt fellowes, [...]

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is your message obvious?

December 13, 2011

from the stop sign wasn’t always red: “We have the Mississippi Valley Association of State Highway Departments to thank for the stop sign’s iconic shape. In 1923, the association developed an influential set of recommendations about street-sign shapes whose impact is still felt today. The recommendations were based on a simple, albeit not exactly intuitive, [...]

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wellness digest—week of december 5

December 12, 2011

a roundup of last week’s news that caught my interest. 1. could new regs, salary connection put health premiums into talent play? there were many stories about companies tying health care costs to salary levels this past week. ann bares discussed them on her blog compensation force, asking whether we’d soon be moving to a [...]

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superbetter me! finishing the setup

December 9, 2011

a lot of exciting projects have kept me from finishing my superbetter set-up. but i’m back. where were we? oh, yeah. superbetter me! my first post about the superbetter social health game covered the first half of my setup experience. i completed three missions before i pooped out. today i finished the setup, which involved completing [...]

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