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AddictionAnswers.com 2009 Webby Honoree

Congratulations to OHO client Massachusetts General Hospital for being a 2009 Webby Award Honoree.  Micro site Addiction Answers won the Webby Award in the Health Category.  Addiction Answers was created by MGH, cause media, and OHO Interactive to support The Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS) at MGH which specializes in supporting teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15 and 25, and their families, as they deal with their substance-related problems. 

The website was designed and built to meet the needs of young adults, school professionals, and parents.  It makes the expert advice and research of MGH available to a wide audience through the use of compelling testimonials, accessible research information, and topical videos. 

With other honorees in the 2009 Health category included the BBC, American Heart Associations's Go Red for Women, and Prevention.com it is great to see this important initiative of MGH highlighted in such good company.  A complete list is availabe here.

The Webby Awards are the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.

 

 

Ed Hastings
Apr 15, 2009
Awards, Education, Mission Driven
MIT Media Lab Selects OHO for Scratch-Ed Web Project

The Scratch project at the MIT Media Lab has selected OHO to develop a new community web site for educators. Scratch is a new programming language that enables people to easily construct a wide variety of interactive projects. These projects can be shared on the Scratch site. It is focused on helping young people age 8 and up develop mathematical, computational, reasoning and problem solving skills.

The new web site will provide a dedicated space for teachers and educators to collaborate, share curriculum, and develop a virtual network. It will be developed using the open-source CMS Drupal.

Scratch software can be downloaded here: http://scratch.mit.edu/
 

Jason Smith
Feb 18, 2009
Drupal, Education, Mission Driven, MIT
Cancer & Careers Launches New Website

After 7 years as the top content web site for working women with cancer, CancerAndCareers.org recently engaged with OHO to update their site. Design changes include improved navigation and clarity, restructured content, and better access to new community features such as an online Career Coach, an online diary and special interest publications. These updates follow an upgrade to the content management system to improve the ease of publication and site maintenance.

OHO Newsletter
Jan 08, 2009
Mission Driven
Mass General Tackles Substance Abuse with Video Web Site and Text Messages

Over 90% of substance abuse problems begin for people between 15 and 25. To address this demographic, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry has pioneered a groundbreaking new program: Addiction Recovery Management Service (ARMS). To accompany the program launch, MGH partnered with OHO and CauseMedia to develop a video-driven web site (www.AddictionAnswers.com) aimed at helping parents and schools understand the unique challenges of treating teens and young adults with substance abuse problems.

Start-to-Finish Website Development

Together with CauseMedia, OHO developed the site in 5-months using a process that included site concept development, stakeholder research, focus groups, design, technology, and content and video production.

Text Message Application

A unique feature of the site is a text message application that can be used by clinicians in supporting treatment. This application grew out of our research that showed that young adults that are abusing are isolated from activities, non-using peers, and even computer use. Medical research has demonstrated that text messages have been effective in treatment because of the immediacy of the medium. The integration of the text messages with the web site provides additional tracking of messages and data points that have the potential to be used in further research into the use of technology in treatment of substance abuse.

www.AddictionAnswers.com
www.CauseMedia.com
 

Jason Smith
Dec 31, 2008
Mission Driven
Mission Driven Organizations Better Serve Their Audience with OHO

In today's economy organizations are looking to stretch their budgets and to be more effective with their initiatives. Over the past several months, OHO has helped these mission driven organizations add new web-based solutions that move their web sites from talking about the mission to completing the mission. Four new clients and web sites include:

  1. Leveraging Investment in Creativity (LINC) - A 10-year initiative to improve working conditions for artists nationally. (www.lincnet.net),
  2. The Actors Fund - Committed to providing health insurance and health insurance resources to everyone in entertainment (www.newahirc.org)
  3. Charity Card Mall - a new concept in giving. Charity Card Mall partners with charities to place donation cards in gift card racks at major retailers like CVS. (www.charitycardmall.com)
  4. World Usability Day, sponsored by the Usability Professionals Association, is on November 13th this year and is focusing on Transportation. OHO is proud to be a sponsor of this important event. (www.worldusabilityday.org/)
OHO Newsletter
Oct 08, 2008
Mission Driven
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