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about Mission: Pneumonia

missionpneumonia.org is a new project we launched this week with New Media Strategies for Save the Children. Monday November 2nd was World Pneumonia Day.

We have helped concept, design and develop Mission: Pneumonia (huge thanks to the JESS3 team, including my go-to guys Shawn, Travis and Jim) that includes 7 levels and dozens of questions, success stories and opportunities to take action against pneumonia worldwide (including donating to help the effort, as well as petitioning Congress). We made sure that the game was connected to Twitter, as well as Facebook, so there are maximum sharing opportunities. Additionally, the game was developed with a playful element to it, while still respecting the gravity and serious nature of the issue.

In working on this project, I have learned an amazing amount about pneumonia, including the fact that pneumonia is the leading cause of child deaths worldwide; a figure that can be understood by this illustration:

IMAGINE A JUMBO JET FULL OF CHILDREN CRASHING EVERY 2 HOURS, EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEK, EVERY YEAR… and that is how many children die from pneumonia each year. So what should you know? What can you do?

From Save the Children, they share:

Things you need to know
1. Pneumonia kills more children under five years of age worldwide than any other illness (more than 2 million deaths per year)
2. More than 155 million episodes of pneumonia occur every year in children under five years of age worldwide placing a huge burden on families and the health system.
3. Pneumonia prevention and control is a priority and is essential in achieving the fourth MDG.
4. Pneumonia can be prevented by immunization, improvement of nutrition, control of indoor air pollution and prevention of HIV infection
5. Pneumonia can be diagnosed clinically using simple signs like fast breathing and lower chest indrawing.
6. Simple antibiotics can treat pneumonia.
7. Three essential steps can reduce death from pneumonia, recognize a child is sick, seek appropriate care and treat with appropriate antibiotics.

Things you need to do
1. Ensure all children are immunized against measles, whooping cough, heamophilus and pneumococcus.
2. Ensure all children diagnosed with pneumonia are treated promptly with effective antibiotics
3. Ensure trained health workers can diagnose and treat pneumonia with antibiotics in the community.
4. Implement appropriate case management at health facility level for severe pneumonia.
5. Promote exclusive breast feeding.
6. Prevent mother to child transmission of HIV and implement pneumonia prophylaxis in high HIV prevalent areas.
7. Promote strategies to reduce indoor air pollution.
8. Promote Zinc supplementation

about GoPublic for APTA

http://gogreengopublic.publictransportation.org/

We built this site in Ruby on Rails. Communication Arts said "Certainly one of the more unlikely topics for a Web site. But we like it. GoPublic. Part data visualization. Part Twitter feed."

about The JESS3 Social Media Data Visualization Portfolio

about manual design

we at JESS3 have been trying out some tactile design methods for some stop motion work and art installations we have coming up.

Gemma, my amazing new illustrator has been producing art work for the 09 JESS3 fashion line. Feedback is appreciated and will be incorporated.

about JESS3 2.0

I am so excited to share with the world that JESS3 has its first 2 employees. I am so blessed to have Zvi Band and James Callahan join the JESS3 family!





Zvi is the CTO here at JESS3, he is also my right hand man. Zvi has a host of skills but most recently he has been working on Facebook App projects.





James is going to be working from Richmond where he lives with his lovely wife, and come up to DC for meetings when needed. James will have the title of Art Director and will be doing alot of drawing and concept sketching.




I want to give a shout out to the rest of the JESS3 team. Becca Baker has been killing it as my administrative ninja. She has proven to be invaluable in a variety of capacities including video production. Leslie has been doing an incredible job of leading this group of trouble makers and keeping me inline. She has also provided essential new business leads as well as managing everything behind closed doors. Love her.



more updates to follow.

about Frederick Article

I was profiled by a local paper.. check it out

"Calling him a go-getter would be an understatement. This guy works day and night seven days a week -- and loves it."

UPDATE / link updated*

about europe 2007

Leslie, Nick and I just got back from Europe.. I attended the Future of Web Apps conference in london, and stayed in amsterdam for the rest of the time. We were gone 10 days. We stayed in this awesome apartment in amsterdam, and this overpriced tiny baler hotel in london, the kensington close.

click here for all the photos













I attended a great panel about uk startups vs american ones... arrington got into a couple battles.. this guy is such a character.. he stands out as the most alpha male of the conference. TechCrunch is widely praised, but its not that tight.. dude calm down

here is the video of arrington saying "the bbc should be dissolved"



we went to this "geek dinner", which was pretty fun



we walked in on this amazing jazz band.. it was a sureal experience, everyone else was local... amazing music.. you had to be there....