AIDS.gov Mobile Success Story
7-15-2014July 2013 marked a significant milestone. For the first time, most people accessed the HIV.gov website via mobile devices. We anticipated this day would eventua…
Jeremy Vanderlan
SXSWi 2013: Digital Health and HIV
4-9-2013Every year, the digital world converges on Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi), which features “five days of compelling pres…
New Media in Changing the Response to HIV
7-25-2012L-R: Miguel Gomez, Michelle Samplin-Salgado, Todd Park, Deron Perkins, Venton Jones, Ken Williams, Eunice Gnay Namirembe, Oriol Gutierrez, Ingrid Floyd, Susanna…
AIDS.gov: Anytime, Anywhere, on Any Device
6-26-2012The internet has changed and continues to change how the American public receives information and interacts with the government. At HIV.gov we are constantly ad…
Devices vs. Content: Lessons from SXSW Interactive
4-17-2012Each year at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW), a theme or trend emerges that defines the year, a touchstone that marks an up-and-coming application or idea…
Taking the AIDS.gov HIV/AIDS Prevention & Service Provider Locator to Facebook
1-31-2012Eight hundred million people are active users of Facebook, according to the site’s own statistics. That’s one in nine people living today. Of those …
Mobile Internet Use Surpassing Desktop Internet Use by 2014
10-11-2011Seems like everything these days is mobile. According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, “mobile internet refers to online access that occurs wirele…
Lessons Learned from SXSW 2010
3-23-2010Austin is a town with a distinct vibe. Where cowboy boots would be expected, nose rings are present instead. We saw more mohawks than crew cuts, more ironic t-s…
Looking Towards the Future with Mobile
1-19-2010In the past week, text messaging to raise funds for earthquake relief in Haiti demonstrated the potential of mobile phones to offer simple solutions to help tho…