Rethinking Civilization for the Social Age

March 12, 2012

This week I listened to Don Tapscott deliver an opening keynote at SXSW, Rethinking Civilization for the Social Age.  Beyond showcasing all the functional elements of a gifted speaker, he offered the kind of ideas that left me thinking about magnitude of everything I see happening around me.  His presentation centered on new models of [...]

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Are You Ready for Your Moment?

March 11, 2012

So I’m sitting in room at SXSW with a couple hundred people waiting for a program on design to begin.  But speaker doesn’t show.  No one can find her.  With the program uncomfortably delayed, a SXSW official approaches the mike and invites anyone from the audience to step up and speak on the topic of [...]

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Highlight

March 9, 2012

There’s alot of talk here at SXSW about Highlight.  It’s a spankin’ new location app that tells you who’s immediately around you.  You can see their name, photos of them, mutual friends, and anything else they have chosen to share.  Highlight runs in the background and lets you know about the people around you.  Crunchbase [...]

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Qualcomm Life and the Future of Health

March 8, 2012

Today at the WCG SXSW pre-conference I listened Senior Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm Life Rick Valencia draw out his heady vision of where health is headed.  By creating the 2net Platform, one of the world’s most comprehensive mobile health ecosystems, Qualcomm Life is reinventing the world of wireless healthcare.  Qualcomm Life is [...]

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Content Before SEO

March 7, 2012

You need to read this post by Mack Collier.  He takes apart a post written by Seth Godin and describes why those of us who blog should worry about SEO, titles, and the like.  What’s implicit here is that the way to establish your voice is through the search and content strategies routinely sold as [...]

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DeLange VIII and the Future of Education

February 25, 2012

School isn’t what it used to be.  Higher education is changing dramatically.  As barriers to information and human connection dissolve, institutions that once existed as the sole means of connecting people to learn find themselves evolving .  Activity and thought once silo’d within universities are increasingly present on a global, collaborative stage.  Everything we think [...]

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Leaders and Their Smart Phones

February 23, 2012

Recently I realized that really important people aren’t fixated on their smart phones. I spent time recently with some very influential people.  Higher ups, leaders, mucky mucks.  I never saw them look at their smartphones.  Next time you’re around a real leader, take note.  You would never know that they even own a phone.  I [...]

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The Race to the Bottom

February 16, 2012

One of my colleagues is an internist.  He works as a solo doc, the casualty of a group liquidated under economic pressure.  He works like a donkey.  I’ve known him for years, our kids have gone to school together and I’ve watched him change.  He’s overworked, overweight, tired and his hair is falling out.  He never [...]

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Defining Social Standards for Doctors

February 9, 2012

There’s lots of discussion about how doctors should carry themselves online.  I think it’s simpler than we make it out to be. Consider that we all live and work in communities.  We’re are shaped by those around us.  None of us do what we do alone.  And what I do and how I behave affects [...]

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Lockstep Physicians

February 8, 2012

I had lunch with a colleague who is finishing his MBA in May.  We talked about what he planned to do going forward.  The conversation then turned to doctors and the way they see themselves and their options.  In medicine we’re used to having the way paved for us.  We do what’s been done before. [...]

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