Here’s a simple, but very clever conceptual use of social networking. If you had a long-term illness which made it difficult to get online, but you wanted an easy way to keep all your friends, family and healthcare providers updated…
Social Media for a Smarter Planet
One of the things I’m pretty passionate about is looking at ways we can apply technology and some creative thinking to help create a better world. I saw this video appear in my Facebook news feed, and thought I’d share…
Seeing Things
1. A 5 mm tall doll composed of living cells 2. Contact lens with circuits and lights Green and purple goodness found in my feedreader thanks to the smarter planet Tumblelog
Wire your cause
The ability to activate support by those in need or those wanting to help out those in need has never been more available than it is today. The connected cause movement is richly empowered by the Internet – from microlending…
Smart networks for a smarter planet
Just in case you’re curious, I’ve written a post over on the Greater IBM Connection Blog, called “Your grandmother’s nephew’s sister-in-law’s employee just got smarter’ “Not only can we help to create a smarter planet – using social networks for…
The challenge for a Smarter Planet
I was just reading James Governor’s interesting post on Monkchips (Redmonk) about a Smarter Planet; an initiative IBM has been sharing recently about working together to address important global healthcare, energy, and economic problems, amongst others (full disclosure – I …