Friendships don’t grow on their own - we need to put time, intention and energy into making connections happen.
    11.17.09
    The Ancient Art of Hospitality
    Tyze CEO, Vickie Cammack, writes about hospitality - it's a word, she says, that encompasses comfort, security, refreshment, refuge, friends and family. It is central to the social practices of many societies and is necessary for human well being. Hospitality offers protection, provision, and respect to strangers. It also maintains and deepens bonds among family, friends, and acquaintances.

    Hospitality transforms work into life.
    - Jacques Dufresne

    09.11.09
    Better Together: Online Social Networks and Inclusion
    It’s 2009 and technology and social media are around every corner. As we read the news and talk to our friends, it seems as though everyone is sending email, checking Facebook, watching videos on YouTube and even blogging. Well, not everyone. While the majority of Canadians (a whopping 70%) are using Facebook, and 58% of Canadians are blogging, many of our citizens are still not online, never mind using the latest and greatest social media tools.

    It’s 2009 and technology and social media are around every corner. As we read the news and talk to our friends, it seems as though everyone is sending email, checking Facebook, watching videos on YouTube and even blogging.

    Well, not everyone.

    While the majority of Canadians (a whopping 70%) are using Facebook, and 58% of Canadians are blogging, many of our citizens are still not online, never mind using the latest and greatest social media tools.

    07.09.10
    Tyze mentioned in Society Daily section of UK newspaper, The Guardian.
    Social media has transformed the way we work, shop, travel, communicate; therefore it must revolutionise the economy of care and welfare.

    This article highlights Tyze as emerging and innovative personal online network service that helps improve wellbeing. It describes how individual care demands more than useful or slick social media; it demands real human attention. In response to this practical and acute observation, Tyze is recognized as a social media-type service that is not an end in itself, but a means to supporting real life people, that is driven by over 20 years of real experience in network building.

    06.29.10
    Tyze & PRACL: A Case Study
    When PRACL began working on implementing a personalized life planning process for its members, they found that it this was tough to achieve for members who lacked friends, and whose families often lived elsewhere. The organization decided it was time to meet the challenge of their mission statement.

    Why Tyze?

    11.13.09
    Why I Need Community
    Because I am a performer, I travel a lot. I meet the most incredible people around the world. But after I do my show and visit a little bit, I have had to leave these wonderful people. But now, online, I can stay in contact and share my thoughts, my feelings, my life.

     I grew up carefully tended by my family. I had friends in the neighborhood and at Our Lady of Grace Church and school. In this community, I always felt valuable and wanted.

    It wasn’t so easy as I grew older.

    The left side of my face bulges with purple veins from a birth difference. The radiation I received as an infant made the lower part of my face stop growing.

    09.11.09
    Facilitating Communication with Tyze: Benefits to Individuals, Caregivers and Organizations
    With an online network, caregivers and family members can share up-to-date plan changes, maintain an online calendar, and assign tasks. As a result, everyone’s responsibilities can be more clearly defined.

    A person who is vulnerable, isolated, ill, or experiencing one of life’s challenges can benefit both physically and emotionally from the support of a strong network. All involved – the individual, friends, family, caregivers and supporting organizations – have the same goal: for the person to live in an optimal situation, make authentic choices, and experience good health and personal satisfaction.

    09.11.09
    Goodnight Irene
    Edna had been worrying about Miltonʼs future. She told Irene about the network she and Milton were working to set up. Milton was lonely. He had always been in special programs as a child. He had worked for awhile in a sheltered workshop and now in middle age he volunteered a few hours at the local seniorʼs home.

    Irene is a willowy, no nonsense sort of Brit. A few years back, as she and her husband were about to enter their early retirement years, he passed away suddenly. Ireneʼs life changed radically. She found the nights the hardest. She was forced to make some tough decisions that included moving to an apartment. She hoped she would feel less lonely closer to others. When moving day came the first people she met at her new building were Milton and his elderly mother, Edna. When Irene overheard the soft British accents she introduced herself and a three way friendship began.

    09.11.09
    Online Embrace
    Media critic, Shari Graydon (http://www.sharigraydon.com/) embraces new media and sees the potential of Tyze.

    Among other things, I'm a media critic. For more than 15 years, I've practically made a living out of warning people about the perils of commercial media.