By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Part 1 Guy Kawasaki referred to himself as a “Bozo” during his keynote address at the Health Tech Next Generation Conference this month in San Francisco. Speaker, author, former chief evangelist of Apple, founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, and founder of Alltop.com, Kawasaki engaged his audience with humor and humility. Don’t Let the Bozos Grind You Down One important lesson which appears at the end of Guy Kawasaki’s…
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By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA Turning to friends for online information is the hot topic within the Web world, and in Monday’s New York Times Technology and Business section, Jenna Wortham writes about how “Search Takes a Social Turn.” Online sites are taking notice of what people like. Web companies are trying to make searching online for information more useful by tapping into the inner thoughts of what people like. “After a decade when…
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How to get excited for both By Barbara Ficarra, RN, BSN, MPA I have a really good friend who has somehow mastered living in the moment. Ask him about the future and you won’t get much of a response. While I enjoy the “moments” of everyday I can’t help but move my mind forward to envision the future. Living in the moment has its rewards, but so does thinking about the future. The way in…
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