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I talked with Chinwe Onyekere, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program, who was at the fourth annual national Games for Health Conference held in Baltimore last week. In her role as a Program Officer, Chinwe develops and manages programs that have the potential for far-reaching impact on people's health, the quality of care they receive, and the systems that provide that care.

The Pioneer Portfolio of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the lead conference sponsor and a major supporter of the Games for Health Project. The Foundation is interested in exploring ways to apply the creativity, talent, and innovative ideas of the games industry to health and health care.

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Change Makers

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On Friday, I spoke with Paul Puopolo, Humana's director of consumer innovation, while he attended the forth annual national Games for Health Conference in Baltimore last week.

At the two day event, Humana launched their Disney style website (humanagames.com) that is focused on impacting consumers positively through a variety of multi-generational, physical interactive gaming programs.

One of the burning questions I had for Paul was - What is Humana Inc., one of the nation's largest publicly traded health and supplemental benefits companies, doing in the video gaming space?

Live from the fourth annual Games For Health Conference (http://www.gamesforhealth.org) in Baltimore, I will be talking with three presenters in a radio talk show format.

You can listen to the show beginning at 10:30am right here on this blog.

Below are instructions on how to call into the show to ask the guests questions:

The phone number is: 206/420-6219
Show ID: 254183
If Caller ID is Blocked, Dial *82 before calling show

Schedule

10:30 am Paul Puopolo, director of consumer innovation at Humana

11:00 am Chinwe Onyekere, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Program Officer

11:30 am Dr. Alasdair Thin of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Ben Sawyer, co-director of the Games for Health Fourth Annual Conference that will be held May 8-9 at the Baltimore Convention Center, talks about the emerging video gaming exergaming industry, Nintendo, Microsoft and the upcoming three day event.

About Games for Health
The Games for Health Project is produced by the Serious Games Initiative, a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars effort that applies cutting-edge games and game technologies to a range of public and private policy, leadership and management issues. The project also produces the Games for Health Conference, now in its fourth year.

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Last week over 10,000 attended the second annual Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, CA. Jack Olmsted, Seattle PI Reader Blog: Videoblogging 206, talked to Scott Caroll, Public Relations Manager AMD, from Blogtropolus, a blogger lounge set-up for the four day event. Check out AMD's YouTube Channel AMD Unprocessed.

NOTE: This interview was made possible by Mogulus an internet video platform giving producers everything they need to launch their own LIVE 24/7 television station.

Web 2.0 Expo gathers designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists who have experiences to share and a passion for learning about Web 2.0 applications.

UStream.TV, another Blogtropolus sponsor, produced live broadcasts from the venue.

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Pamela Livingston, author of "1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work", and Jack Olmsted, LD Live, interview Cheryl Hewett, HP Education Market Development Manager regarding the new HP 2133 Mini-Note PC that was designed for the education market.

During the 24 minute discussion, Cheryl talks about the HP/Microsoft social networking, Web 2.0 site, The Teacher Experience Exchange that will be unveiled at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in June.

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Notebooks.com Multimedia Review Of the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC

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Podcast: Jack Olmsted, Videoblogging 206, talks to Rainer Cvillink, Mogulus, from the NAB 2008 show floor.

You are watching a live video feed from NAB. To hear the sound, click on the speaker.

Mogulus, the New York based Live Video Streaming And Broadcasting Service, has partnered with Premiere Entertainment Network world, a broadcast production company specializing in live and taped red carpet and special event broadcasts, to produce a live video feed from Las Vegas of the National Association of Broadcaster's (NAB) Annual Trade Show. The on-line broadcast stream will feature interviews from the the convention floor and keynote addresses.

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Sequim, WA, the lavender capital of the Pacific Northwest, is on the cusp of getting their own radio station.

I talk to Sequim Community Broadcasting board member Rick Perry about the Olympic Peninsula's new community resource.

International youth reporter Kevin Tain reports live from the 11th annual Sakura-Con, the Northwest's premiere Japanese Animation and Cultural Festival, this weekend from the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

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Kevin talks to gia Manry, Portland based anime journalist, using his cell phone and NowLive from the show floor of Sakura-Con 08.

To listen to Kevin's Sakura Con podcasts, select what you want to hear on the above menu and click the play button.

Friday Photos: Sakura-Con Attendees CosPlay Costumes. Check out Kevin's Flickr Gallery

Kevin's first video report from Sakura-Con 2008. Stay tuned.

Sakura-Con Bloggers

gia: The Original Weeabi*ch is LiveBlogging from workshops and the show floor.
Anime Pulse is posting podcasts of workshops and show recaps
JapanAmerica - New York Blogger

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Kevin Tain, International Examiner Youth Reporter, and I talk with Elmira Utz, Director of Publicity, Sakua-Con 2008. The 11th annual 24 hour Pacific Northwest Japanese Animation and Cultural Festival will be held March 28th through the 30th at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle Washington.

Sakura Con will be video blogged. Stay tuned.