NCHCMM Conference in Atlanta, Aug 9-11, 2011
For those who attended the the NCHCMM conference held last week in Atlanta, what stood out for you? Was it a particularly valuable nugget you heard in a breakout session that you can use in your job? Perhaps a plenary speaker who inspired you? How about visiting the Georgia Aquarium on Wednesday night? Or maybe you can only remember the heat… (was it THAT bad)?
Whatever you ”took away” from the conference, we’d like to hear about it. Share your comments below and talk amongst yourselves.
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AUTHOR COMMENT August 17, 2011 at 11:41 am ET - Curt Shannon
I’ll start things off. I learned that making money and improving health in our country and world are not mutually exclusive goals. (Closing Plenary Panel:”Putting the Market in Social Marketing”, moderated by Jay Bernhardt.)
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August 17, 2011 at 1:58 pm ET - Jim Garrow
The conference was phenomenal. Truly a wonderful place to meet new people and learn new things. I expanded on my thoughts–and actually came up with three takeaways–here: National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media.
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August 17, 2011 at 1:59 pm ET - Sarah Greene
I found the “stump the chump” panel to be particularly useful and incisive. Contrasting the question of “why” certain content is shared more than other content (thank you, Jonah Berger), and following that with Bill Smith’s remarks about the way we use–or misuse…or don’t use audience research really helped shape my thinking about motivation and engagement.
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August 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm ET - Reyna Jones
I learned that silence does not give consent. During the Office of the Associate Director Donna Garland’s closing remarks, she said just because someone is silent doesn’t mean they don’t have something to say. She also hit on the theme of the conference, “Listening for Change,” by saying that “listening means enabling someone else to talk.” These remarks are great reminders for all of us as we work towards better engagement with our audiences.
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August 17, 2011 at 2:28 pm ET - Sheree Vodicka
The two sessions moderated by Craig Lefebvre were exceptionally good – the first on using ethnographic methods to really listen to and understand our audiences’ wants, needs and desires, and using Design Thinking to innovate in our solutions to some of public health’s most challenging issues. The second was on using this same approach in providing technical assistance – something so many of us do – and yet we could be doing it so much more effectively as listeners and collaborators with our grantees and coalitions. These two sessions (and the aquarium visit, of course) “made” the conference for me.
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August 18, 2011 at 8:31 am ET - Adelina Espat
There were many great presentations with informative slides. Is there a place where we can get copies of the slides shared at this conference?
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AUTHOR COMMENT August 22, 2011 at 9:55 am ET - Curt Shannon
Hey Adelina: It takes awhile to get the slides up on the conference website. We have to make sure anything we put on our website is 508-compatible.
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August 22, 2011 at 2:47 pm ET - A Roundup of NCHCMM Roundups - The Health Digital : The Health Digital
[...] requested feedback on the conference here, and there are some great comments. Others also posted some great reflections after the conference, [...] Visit: http://thehealthdigital.com/2011/08/22/a-roundup-of-nchcmm-roundups/
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September 29, 2011 at 5:14 pm ET - Chris Ingraham
Great event and I loved the panels, I hope to attend again next year!
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November 4, 2011 at 12:31 pm ET - Brad@Chemist Direct
Your blog is very helpful & it will help also many bloggers who are searching for NCHCMM conference in Atlanta. Thanks for reminding us to pay attention more on conference.
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January 2, 2012 at 8:24 pm ET - adam smith
Can you tell us about the most question important questions asked in the conference and its answers , i think i missed big chance to be there. and what about the next conference when it will come? and where ?
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AUTHOR COMMENT January 3, 2012 at 4:31 pm ET - Curt Shannon
@ Adam Smith – Here’s a link to the Conference Website: http://www.cdc.gov/NCHCMM/. You can check it out periodically for more information and sign up to get email updates when the next conference is announced. Hope to see you there!
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