10-15-2012As we approach National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD), I am reminded of work I began in 1991 when I worked full-time with the...
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AIDS.gov Observes National Latino AIDS Awareness Day: Fostering Communication and Using New Media throughout the Years Reflections on Social Media: You Can Do This! 10-09-2012Social Good: Igniting Passion and Innovation for a Better World 10-02-2012Editor's Note: This week the HIV.gov team is at the United States Conference on AIDS. We will return next week with highlights fr...New Media - Twitter - Remember National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 09-27-2012Today, many people in the HIV community and beyond will observe the fifth annual National Gay Men s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. In...Make Sure New Media is Not a Source of Distracted Driving 09-18-2012HIV.gov encourages the use of new media to respond to public health issues, and to meet our audiences needs, we offer content...Infographics: Applying Visual Design to Information 09-11-2012How do you make data look good - and mean something too? Information graphics, or infographics as they re commonly referred to, attempt to do just that: visu...“A picture is worth a thousand words”: Photo Sharing at AIDS 2012 09-04-2012Let's Stop HIV Together and Facing AIDS at AIDS 2012This Labor Day, like many Americans, I spent time with friends and family and...Gearing up for Social Media at USCA 08-28-2012It s been a month since AIDS 2012. The annual conference planned by the National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) takes place Septe...Twitter, and Mobile Technology, Take Off at AIDS 2012 08-14-2012When the XIX International AIDS Conference drew to a close, #AIDS2012 had been tweeted 85,608 times over the course of the six-da...Social Media and Mobile @ AIDS 2012 07-31-2012It was very exciting to see the presence of a number of social media and mobile sessions at the XIX International Conference on AIDS (AIDS 2012) last week in W.…New Media in Changing the Response to HIV 07-25-2012L-R: Miguel Gomez, Michelle Samplin-Salgado, Todd Park, Deron Perkins, Venton Jones, Ken Williams, Eunice Gnay Namirembe, Oriol G...![HIV Basics]()
New Media Sessions and Activities at AIDS 2012 07-18-2012The world’s largest and most important HIV-related scientific meeting is less than a week away. AIDS 2012 will bring together over 25,000 delegates (inclu…Engaging with Communities of Color Using New Media 07-13-2012Racial and ethnic minorities have been disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic and, according...AIDS 2012 and “The State of New Media and HIV” 07-10-2012This year s International AIDS Conference from other countries, they are amazed about the service offerings at our agency and t...Historic New Media Call to Action at AIDS 2012 06-19-2012We sent our first tweet in on August, 2008 from the International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Four years and 3,265 tweets later, we are gearing up for yet..…Twitter on the Rise 06-05-2012Last week, the Pew Internet & American Life Project released the 2012 version of their annual report on Twitter use. As soon as I read the news about the r.…The New Facebook Timeline: A Tool in Response to HIV 05-22-2012It s estimated that 96% of Facebook users never revisit fan pages1 once they hit the like button. We at HIV.gov hope this...Digital Storytelling: A Community Tool to End HIV Stigma 05-15-2012At HIV.gov we’ve been thinking a lot about the power of storytelling. In the HIV community, everyone has a story to bring to the table, and more people ar…Tumbling Uphill: Social Blogging Site Tumblr on the Rise 05-08-2012At HIV.gov we continuously follow and research emerging social media tools for what may be the next big application. However, one...Setting an Example: Do You Text and Drive? Part 2 05-01-2012Miguel Gomez, HIV.gov DirectorAs we move ever closer to AIDS 2012, my workload as director of HIV.gov has increased dramatically...
