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June 24th, 2009 . by Catherine Frederico, MS RD LDN

Good friends lead to great articles.

Robert Wood Johnson FoundationThanks to my good friend Andre Blackman, author of Pulse+Signal and co-author for our new blog healthGAMERS, I was able to contribute to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s new Guest Blogger Series: Views on Increasing the Use of Digital Games for Health. This week, The Pioneer Portfolio wants to engage individuals outside of the Foundation in a dialogue about what they believe needs to done to increase the effective use of digital games for the purpose of supporting health and healthcare goals.

Big names on a big topic.

Check out our response entitled Developing and Sustaining Health Games — A Losing Battle?.  Expect additional thoughts in this amazing series from folks like Richard Tate of HopeLab, Ann Thai of Joan Ganz Cooney, Anastasia Goodstein of YPulse, Greg Matthews of Humana Games and Nedra Weinreich of Spare Change.  What a line-up!  Feel free to weigh in yourself and tell Pioneering Ideas what you think.  Heck, let Monster’s Blog know too!

3 Responses to “Playnormous Weighs in on Health Games Landscape for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation”

  1. June 27th, 2009 at 12:26 am

    [...] pdf)—Or this week’s RWJF’s Pioneering Ideas blog series where healthGAMERS from HopeLab, Playnormous, and youth leaders in the field like Ypulse share their voice and [...]

  2. Comment # 2 by: Andre Blackman
    July 1st, 2009 at 8:39 am

    It was a GREAT article and really glad to have been able to help with this! Change is truly coming, we’re the new guard!

  3. Comment # 3 by: melanie
    July 1st, 2009 at 8:42 am

    @Andre – Thank you so much! This wouldn’t have been possible without you, so thank YOU for helping get this article out to the masses.

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