http://mdbraber.com mobile / tech / healthcare / events Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:42:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [ This post is written for the WCIT2010 blog and cross-posted here ] "A hospital is no place to be sick", Samuel Goldwyn (from MGM) once said. And he was right. Because ultimately nobody wants to be in the hospital. But we cannot deny the fact that everyone will be ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/12/11/in-healthcare-youre-not-alone/ Probably most ambitious people are starved for the sort of encouragement they'd get from ambitious peers, whatever their age. [...] Which means one of the best ways to help a society generally is to create events and institutions that bring ambitious people together. It's like pulling the control rods out ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/11/06/the-anatomy-of-determination/ Every Thursday evening we come together. The #momoams team: @vangeest @panman @marcfonteijn @samwarnaars and me. I like those meetings - a lot. They're personal, on the edge and energetic. Trends, future scenarios and the latest gadgets all are part of the conversation (and we also do some event planning in ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/11/04/the-age-of-the-informavore/ Recently I've applied for a GroenLinks membership - a Dutch green left-wing political party. Why? Because they asked relevant and very to-the-point questions in parliament about the Buma/Stemra fee for embedding online content (the plan was canceled mostly by the Buma/Stemra quite soon after) @groenlinks (their official Twitter account) twittered about ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/11/02/why-political-parties-dont-work-and-need-vrm/ With the introduction of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) many cool features were introduced and at least one not so cool feature: whenever you press the Play/Pause button your keyboard when you have e.g. Spotify running, it opens up iTunes. Anyway, nothing we cannot solve with a little hacking, ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/10/21/stop-itunes-from-launching-when-pressing-the-playpause-button-on-your-keyboard-snow-leopard/ Today I attended a presentation at the Dutch Design Week by Marcel Zwiers from 31volts about Service Design. It's a subject I've become more and more interested in over the last few months. If we take so much time designing products, what about services? And what value could it add? ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/10/19/service-design/ Yesterday I attended Reshape 2009, a Dutch Health 2.0 conference organized by @zorg20 and others - it was put together very well (kudos to the team!). There was a good vibe and for me personal it was good to meet with national and international good friends. Some of my thoughts on the ... http://mdbraber.com/2009/10/15/reshape-2009-thoughts-on-changing-dutch-healthcare/ San Francisco. Feels a bit like being home (Amsterdam that is). You can just walk through the streets here and not have to take a cab for every place you want to go to. That's nice! And in some ways it's even better than Amsterdam: they have a a proper ... http://mdbraber.com/2008/10/21/health20-pre-conference-day/ Finally - it's been a struggle but I've made it! My thesis presentation and the rest of my colloquium went very well. The presentation was fun to give and it was a blast to be able to finally present to all those of you who have shown their continuing interest ... http://mdbraber.com/2008/10/20/master-of-science/ Lots of you asked and finally they're here: the document and presentation of my thesis. Today at 10.30am I will be presenting and if all goes well you can follow the live-stream here (from 10.30am GMT+1). For now you can download the final document or read it on Scribd. The ... http://mdbraber.com/2008/10/10/thesis-document-presentation-and-livestream/