tEWN stirs things up with this new blog post challenging the love affair employee benefits and wellness professionals have been having with behavioral economics, the book Nudge, choice architecture, and outcomes-based wellness (in which employees are rewarded or penalized based on biometric results). Read the blog and voice your own opinion in the Comments section.

Speaking about Comments, we are in the process of remodeling our blog section and have added a feature that allows you to request email notification when someone replies to your Comment. This is new feature designed to encourage discussion. Help us test it out.

E2E Sites

In the tEWN Forum, member Erin Thompson asks for input about employee-to-employee (E2E) networking sites intended to increase engagement in company-wide health initiatives and wellness programs. What do you have to say about E2E? Log-in and say it!

New Employee Wellness Events

Several upcoming wellness conferences have been added to the tEWN Events section, including theWellness Innovations Congress, which will feature CoHealth co-founder Fran Melmed and tEWN founder Bob Merberg presenting on professional development for wellness professionals using social media.

Designing Incentives for Health and Engagement

Join the upcoming CoHealth tweet chat about designing incentives for healthy behaviors, with special guest Paul Hebert, managing director and lead consultant at I2I.

The tweet chat will be held Wednesday, May 18, at 12 noon Eastern. Visit the tweet chat Event listing on tEWN, and click on “Attending” if you plan to be there.

If this all seems foreign to you, check out the Tweet Chat Cheat Sheet.