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Digital Health Service helps organisations and their people get the best from their relationship with technology and reach their full potential.

In an era of technological fatigue, overload and confusion - where digital health has a large part to play in mental fitness, happiness and productivity - we provide hands-on training, web design consultancy, and the invention of new online services to help everyone understand, manage, redesign and live a healthy digital lifestyle.

 

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We partner with the ridiculously prolific Policy Unplugged; visionary pioneers of 2gether08.

Discovering and developing the nation's digital health through productivity training, design consultancy and the invention of new online services.

Digital Health is the measure of well-being, positive or negative, in our relationship to the digital technology we use to get things done in our work, life and organisations.

Monday
02Mar

Digital Health Drop-In Clinic at the RSA

DateMonday, March 2, 2009 at 03:20PM

Drop-in to our digital surgery for information, advice, and a friendly chat!


Following on from our launch event at Demos last month we'll be at the RSA on John Adam St all day long to talk through your digital dilemmas and offer on-to-one advice for you and your organisation. Come along and continue the face to face discussions we started last month, ask us difficult questions or co-design some answers.

To register a slot just visit our handy wiki and follow the instructions.

AuthorGavin O'Carroll | CommentPost a Comment |
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Monday
02Feb

The Official DHS Launch Event

DateMonday, February 2, 2009 at 04:22PM

Last Tuesday saw our Digital Health Service launch event, which was a fun evening of drinks and debate with great insight from our speakers, controversial questions – and even a thrown blackberry (well a rubber one!). A huge thank you to the fabulous speakers, and to everyone who came along and got involved.

Demos very kindly hosted the evening, which started with Gavin introducing the ideas behind digital health itself and was followed by Andy Holt giving a fantastic rendition of his experience of taking part in one of the first workshops. Andy explained how at the Learning and Skills Council they found people fell into one of four tech attitudes: "Early adopters", "corporate yes", "change weary", "plain scared", but no matter which one they came under, everyone found they had digital health issues. In fact one outcome was the creation of a Blackberry support group!



The wonderful Joanne Jacobs talked about technology enveloping us and as if to prove a point live-streamed the event – which caused some controversy and an interesting debate around privacy and open sharing in the new digital age. Mark O'Neil got heated up over Blackberrys, talked about the new measurements of success, and opened up the discussion around what is needed going forward for digital health. Questions and conversation continued well into the night, and we even got some people to have a play on videoboo and leave us a little message.

A couple of posts and tweets from the night.

We'd love to continue what we started, so feel free to leave comments, contact us, and look out for news of our upcoming digital health drop-in clinic coming soon…

AuthorAmanda Gore | CommentPost a Comment |
Thursday
22Jan

Opening The Conversation: DHS Launch Night At Demos

DateThursday, January 22, 2009 at 01:36PM

We're very excited to announce our first ever event to open up the discussion around how to cultivate a healthier digital future to benefit people's personal and professional lives is to be held next week at the offices of the extraordinary thinktank Demos on the 27th Jan.

Come along and join the conversation! Registration via the super-useful Eventbrite is here.

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Tuesday
20Jan

Death To New Email Pop-Ups

DateTuesday, January 20, 2009 at 05:54PM

Lauren from McCann Erickson says nice things about the digital health workshop we ran for them last week.  Death to new email pop-ups! 

We used the fantastic VideoBoo from the guys at BestBefore Media to create this and a number of other videos on the fly right after the workshop.  Video through your webcam and straight to YouTube.  Delightfully effortless.  More on VideoBoo from David Wilcox here.

AuthorGavin O'Carroll | Comment1 Comment |
Thursday
15Jan

Working On How We Work

DateThursday, January 15, 2009 at 11:45AM

Yesterday at our second workshop for the good people over at McCann Erickson, in brainstorming how the people in the room could influence how to turn their company into a very digitally-fit organisation we hit upon a good old piece of wisdom from David Allen's Getting Things Done (or GTD - alternative description here) that I thought was worth reminding and sharing.

There are 3 types of work:

  1. Doing pre-defined work
  2. Doing work as it shows up
  3. Defining your work

We all know the first two, but the third is so easy to neglect or forget.  Defining your work is tidying up your in basket, email, voicemail and working out the next steps on your projects.  Once you've defined your work and are feeling pretty good about it, then we work on how we work. 

What are my good habits?  What are my bad?  What's the nature of my work and what are my goals and standards?  Is that new piece of software actually helping?  Is it over complicating things without returning enough benefit?  Or would 20 mins investment of time one evening really make it start to work brilliantly? If I spent some time figuring out how to share calendars on Google Calendar - would that make a significant difference to the productivity of my team?

Useful reminders like the above can really help us make time for a little perspective and help us get in control of our work, how we work and the digital tools we use to do it.

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