Once again, this Thanksgiving we are grateful to all the people who keep this mission alive day after day: to ensure that each and every one of us understands, communicates, and has honored their end of life wishes.
Seems almost more fitting than usual this year – the year of making change happen. 2011 gave us [...]

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Once again, a who’s who of people descended on San Diego for TEDMED – three days packed with smart, provocative folks discussing how Technology, Entertainment, and Design play out in the healthcare field.
Click here for our perspective on the event, including the themes that came through loud and clear for us this year: complexity, collaboration, [...]

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This year at Health 2.0 we returned to the stage to review what we shared last year around the “Unmentionable” issues that impact health – such as financial stress, caregiving, and a tough work environment – plus new data that revealed the impact of these issues on workplace productivity. You can watch the session below.  It’s about [...]

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Great video footage of sessions from the Economist’s Ideas Economy event is now available – including a lively panel titled “Move Fast and Break Stuff,” featuring our own Alexandra Drane as well as folks from NASA, Facebook, and Boxee.

(Contact us if you have trouble accessing the video.)
The panel focused on what you might [...]

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Kudos to our own Alexandra Drane for sharing the concept behind Engage With Grace — to better understand, communicate, and have honored our end-of-life preferences — at this year’s TEDMED event.
TEDMED brings together well-respected folks in the healthcare industry and beyond (from Dr. Sanjay Gupta to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne), as well as those who [...]

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What happens when you gather a couple thousand healthcare, business, and government movers & shakers, then sic them on big topics such as reform, consumerism, and improving care?
Join us at the World Health Care Congress, starting April 12, to find out.

We’ll be in the midst of all, participating in events including:
A panel discussion led by [...]

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Eliza tries a lot of things.  Some work and some don’t.  That’s the price of innovation.
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One of the crazier things we’ve tried, that actually worked and worked well, was Speed Recruiting.
Basically take speed dating (five minutes at a table, bell rings, rotate, repeat) and apply it to an interviewing process and there you have it.
As [...]

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Eliza had quite a happening at the 2009 Health 2.0 in San Francisco.
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Click through the slide show below to see the whole shabang.
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Highlights include Eliza hosting a cocktail party…
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… (we always love a party).
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Alex was interviewed in a session called “Three CEOs and a (kick @ss) President” where she announced Eliza and Sprigley joining forces [...]

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WOW! I know that word doesn’t quite explain the feeling of having your company and president mentioned (several times) in HR Magazine, but it is about all I can come up with.
SHRM, which is the Society of Human Resources Management, is a great organization (I actually belong to the Austin chapter) that has been around [...]

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Eliza’s located on Boston’s North Shore.
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It gets cold in the winter…
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… so when the weather turns nice it has to be enjoyed.
Bookending the summer season were a couple of events
An impromptu Spring Fling BBQ (professional chef Melissa whipping up a feast including steak sandwiches with orange and chili sauce):
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and a company-wide picnic capping off the season:
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Food, fun, [...]

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Health 2.0 kicked off this morning in Boston - and Eliza kicked it off.
The 2009 Health 2.0 in Boston is a joint gig with The Center for Information Therapy focusing on the tensions and synergies between Information Therapy and the whole 2.0 ‘thing’ (users engaging in an architecture of participation).
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Add to that how hot health [...]

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So what happened at SXSW ‘09?
Lots of social media gurus - really popular since it’s catching on in the corporate and mainstream worlds.
Question was largely: “So what’s next?”  ”Why do we care?”  or in the words of Tim O’Reilly, “How do we use this to get to the STUFF THAT MATTERS?”
One of the themes that came [...]

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Our own Alex Drane recently went into the WBNW 1120 AM radio studio for a live, on-air segment with host Chuck Morse. His “Business Spotlight” show airs in greater Boston, Plymouth, and Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Photo by jschneid, used under Creative Commons License
As someone who spends his working hours trying to engage his listeners in a wide range [...]

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So Eliza spoke at SXSW…
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… and we promised to share the experience.
(This and the following are Flash videos, so if you can’t see it just make sure you have the latest Flash version by downloading it here.)
There was a lot to do and see:
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Eliza around SXSW ‘09 from Eliza Blog on Vimeo.

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… and Eliza spoke and [...]

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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 [...]

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