This past weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at the Interactive portion of the South by Southwest conference (SXSW) in Austin, TX. Launched in the mid-80s as a music festival, SXSW has grown in the last decade or so to become one of the largest festivals in the world, including all manner of social media and mobile technology. A couple of years ago, a group pulled together an unconference portion called SXSH, to focus…
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Today might be the spookiest day of the year, but have no fear, our favorite D-picks of the past month are here. Hey, that rhymed! Our friends in the DOC certainly make living with diabetes a little less scary, huh?
We’re still riding the wave of excitement following the epic Simonpalooza DOC meet-ups! Chris Snider chats with the man himself on this episode of the hit podcast, Just Talking.
Kim Vlasnik writes a great post…
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Yesterday and this morning, Allison and I attended the third annual Roche Diabetes Social Media Summit — a power-packed get-together of 37 diabetes bloggers and “online influencers” that allows us to pow-wow on all sorts of social media and diabetes advocacy topics. Kudos to Roche for continuing this program.
This year, the meeting was held at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, directly across from the Convention Center where the annual ADA Scientific Sessions…
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AmyT on
January 17, 2011
Last week, thousands of healthcare companies and investors therein descended upon San Francisco for the 2011 JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. Although I wasn’t able to attend personally, I’ve been keeping an eagle eye on what happened there in terms of diabetes through my friend, seasoned industry observer David Kliff of Diabetic Investor — reporting daily on what he calls “the wacky world of diabetes devices.”
He’s kindly given me permission to summarize some of his…
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