Interview with Jon Erickson of Parlerai

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Jon Erickson is the co-founder of Parlerai, the world’s first augmentative collaboration service. He has a daughter with special needs and is a longtime Internet Technologist. His technical expertise, business experience and personal responsibility for his daughter led to the vision of Parlerai. Jon has a BS in Management Information Systems from Alderson-Broaddus College, in Philippi, [...]

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Interview with Rajiv Mehta of Zume Life

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Rajiv has led strategy and execution in numerous technologies for more than two decades, including mobile devices, wireless technologies, laser systems, digital imaging, stereo-vision systems and natural language processing technologies. He has played key leadership roles at Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Interval Research, Regis McKenna and Symbol Technologies. Rajiv has also been a startup CEO [...]

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Interview with Michael Stollar from Hawaii Medical Service Association

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Michael Stollar is VP of marketing and communications at HMSA, Hawaii’s Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance company. I had heard about him because of the pioneering work he and HMSA had done with online consultations for Hawaiian patients and he kindly shared his experiences for my new book. Then I learned about his most [...]

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Interview with Maria Sipka from Linqia

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Dr Mohammad Al-Ubaydli

Maria Sipka (twitter feed) is the CEO and founder of Linqia, a company whose investors include Esther Dyson, who is on our advisory board. The Linqia marketplace helps monetize social networks by attracting valuable partners. I interviewed her because she can teach clinical teams a lot about creating and managing online communities for and with [...]

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