JOB DESCRIPTION — PROGRAM AssiSTANT Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to developing and using Internet and mobile technologies for sexual health promotion and disease prevention. Our mission is to provide leadership, innovation, educational resources and research in the field. Our media-acclaimed collaborations include inSPOT, SexINFO, and the annual [...]
Visit full site Home living Texting for sexual health advice April 4, 2010 00:04:00 Megan Ogilvie Health Reporter You are a teen in Toronto and worried about whether you have a sexually transmitted infection. You could go online to Google ‘chlamydia,’ but don’t want to risk your parents finding your search history. You are too [...]
Teen Sex Education Conference To Focus On Tech Teen health educators, techies and disease prevention advocates from across the country will be in San Francisco Friday and Saturday for a conference on using social media and other technology to educate teens about safe sex and disease prevention. This is the third annual Sex::Tech Conference put [...]
March 17, 2010 – 10:31 am
Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Addressing the very private nature of intimacy remains the most difficult aspect of sex-ed on the social web. While “Public Health 2.0″ is a top priority for related causes and organizations, it can [...]
Sex::Tech … You heard it right… Submitted by Dave Foster on January 7, 2010 – 5:55pm. Sex::Tech is an upcoming conference dedicated to technology and sexual health, this February 26-27 in San Francisco, CA. That’s what you thought it was going to be about, right? So the title earns it a little extra buzz—that’s a [...]
January 8, 2010 – 10:53 am
From the Laptop of the Executive Director As the first week of 2010 draws to a close, it’s bittersweet to reflect on the year behind us and the future ahead. The entire ISIS team is currently immersed in getting ready for Sex::Tech 2010 in San Francisco on February 26th-27th. If you haven’t seen the program [...]
January 8, 2010 – 10:41 am
November 18, 2009 – 4:06am Michelle Basch, WTOP.com WASHINGTON – Did you know D.C. is on the cutting edge when it comes to testing young people for sexually transmitted diseases? This year, the District became only the second city in the country behind Philadelphia to offer free testing for gonorrhea and chlamydia in all public [...]
December 18, 2009 – 12:12 pm
Using New Media to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health: Examples from the Field by Deb Levine, MA October 2009 “Teens today are wildly different in their media behavior—not from other age groups, but from teens of generations past.” – The Nielsen Company (2009) In the United States, Internet and mobile technologies have become integrated into our [...]
December 9, 2009 – 1:20 pm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PopTech Presents 2009 Class of Social Innovation Fellows Cutting-Edge Program Arms High-Potential Social Innovators with the Tools, Training and Relationships to Take Transformative Programs to Scale 2008 Program Helped Catapult Fellows to Major Grants, Awards and Press Recognition Camden, ME & New York, NY – September 9, 2009 – PopTech (www.poptech.org), the [...]
September 9, 2009 – 5:04 pm
