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A Healthy Discussion

It seems everywhere I turn I hear conversations about choices people are making that reflect their current reality – often with direct reference to how their choice today differs from what they might have decided if we rolled the clock back 12 months.
My own take on this was a recent decision to give up the [...]

The energy here at SXSW is a very different vibe than what you typically see in the health care industry - less blue blazers, more blue hair.
Most people know about SXSW for its music and film fests, which are truly extraordinary (How can you beat hanging out on the Austin City Limits stage at a Wired [...]

Alex lost a bet to Lucas and had to dress up as his alma mater’s mascot (MIT’s beaver).
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Alex as Mascot from Eliza Blog on Vimeo.
(This is a Flash video, so if you can’t see it just make sure you have the latest Flash version by downloading it here.)
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Part of being and staying well, especially in [...]

If you’re at SXSW (and if you attend only one conference this year, you should strongly consider it), please swing by and see Eliza speak.
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This is a SXSW Interactive  ’09 Core Conversation, a free-flowing, conversational exchange.
Stay tuned…

Snow Days :-)

Sometimes it snows a lot here.
When they cancel school some folks work from home…
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… others bring their kids into work…
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… then it’s a full on play day…
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… so watch out!

Aloft is a rockin hotel.
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They designed the whole eperience around what individuals staying there need.
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In a nutshell, it’s about designing an experience around your users.
Kind of hard to explain by typing in a blog.
Let’s let Alex narrate:
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There, now doesn’t that make sense — and don’t you want to stay there next time you have a [...]

Blogging Is Dead!

Blogging is dead.
Wired Magazine said so.
They make the point that if you start a blog you’re almost guaranteed not to have it seriously adopted or indexed up to the top of a search engine.  There’s too much noise.  And now the professionals have caught on.  Most new blogs are corporate.  And corporate blogs are bad. [...]