tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-131393072024-02-06T18:03:08.045-08:00Global Connections, Eclectic SelectionsGlobal Citizenship, Innovation, Health, Education, Service, Story TellingMei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-4088268180593153812016-09-07T04:57:00.001-07:002016-09-07T04:57:10.788-07:00September 07, 2016 at 04:57AMLast week I was happy to be at the World Economic Forum Office in Geneva on behalf of the People Centered Internet with John Ryan of the Organizing Committee. Excited and energized about Internet for All and the 4th Industrial Revolution. It was an honor to hear Klaus Schwab speak passionately about this important topic.
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Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-88825580829347680552015-05-30T10:21:00.003-07:002015-05-30T10:21:45.462-07:00Down to earth advice about making money on the Internethttp://www.quora.com/Is-it-hard-to-build-market-and-maintain-a-web-app-that-makes-at-least-1-000-a-month
I really like the answer to this Quora question. Key points:
Engineering is not enough
Marketing and Maintenance are even more important - if you want a sustained income stream
You need to weigh the alternatives you have and make sure you are making a good decision
Make the numbers work forMei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-11361059123660099492014-10-07T17:57:00.004-07:002014-10-07T17:57:54.102-07:00Human-to-Human - it's back to the future with H2H
English: H2H logo1 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Announcing the latest and the first relationship model:
Has it not been ever thus?
Before P2P, before B2B,
before Twitter, Facebook, Google,
before Microsoft, before IBM, Before HP
before DEC, Tandem, Honeywell, Burroughs
before World War 2 and World War 1
before the French Revolution, the American Revolution, before Cromwell
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-19986376480490993302014-08-14T08:06:00.001-07:002014-08-14T08:06:19.152-07:00Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at the 2014 MUM Graduation
This is really wonderful - the best expression of tapping the human potential
And then the beautiful mashup inspiring video forwarded to me by Bill Daul today.
Shorter and perhaps even more inspiring - see this below:
http://bit.ly/1AgGmkn
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-78284349411532619352014-08-13T13:46:00.001-07:002014-08-13T13:46:45.266-07:00Making a Small Difference: Ang Swee Chai at TEDxUCLWomenA small woman can make a big difference - Ang Swee Chai was born in Singapore and became a political refugee in the UK. Think Big, she says, and do small things to make a difference. She tells her story and the difference she is making - and doing it each day. She encourages us to do the same. No one needs to give us permission. Go forth - make a difference!
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-57539969329966724042014-08-05T11:08:00.001-07:002014-08-05T11:08:12.719-07:00Make health! #makehealth Fest- August 16th! University of MichiganMei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-50892670425501575782014-06-24T00:17:00.001-07:002014-06-24T00:17:57.340-07:00The OMEGA System - Renewable Energy explained in GREAT student videoMei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-44314359890344613292014-05-31T22:29:00.000-07:002014-05-31T22:29:17.685-07:00From Broad Street to California - slide share from Alberta ScranzoClick here to see Slide Share on using Geo-located information to build healthy communities
From Broad Street to California from alberta soranzo
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-72853054608818036342014-05-31T22:20:00.000-07:002014-05-31T22:20:35.828-07:00The healthy communities movement is stirringThe Healthy Communities movement is beginning to stir....the opportunity to re-imagine health with geo located data is here. One example is described in the TV show I hosted last year on the work by the University of California at San Diego, Dept of Emergency Medicine - Professor Jim Killeen and head of department Ted Chan.
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-12775176568362336942014-02-07T00:36:00.001-08:002014-02-07T00:36:21.367-08:00Franchise for Humanity - Come join us at Stanford University Feb 20-21
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, one of California's most famous landmarks. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
After 4 years working to bring together people to think about their aspirations for the future of health - I co-founded the California Health Corps with Bill Daul - human connector extraordinaire! For it comes down to us - do we care enough about our health and the health of our Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-80890945218580623622013-09-06T18:14:00.001-07:002013-09-06T18:14:26.881-07:00Free Access to MIT Entrepreneurship around the World - Course materialsEntrepreneurship around the world is a new course launched out of MIT, and the Baseline Scenario is letting everyone know about how to get access to to it.
Feel free, and feel greatly encouraged by me to
Spread the word!
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-10821109609211371732013-09-05T10:21:00.001-07:002013-09-05T10:21:01.530-07:00Just Picture It - Visual Insight with Eileen Cleggwe
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-4822855451005190512013-06-10T14:39:00.001-07:002013-06-10T14:39:46.607-07:00@MIT.....reunion reflections on Time and ChangeComing back after many years, the MIT campus is both the same in some ways and different in others.
Meeting classmates and faculty makes me reflect on how they and I have stayed the same and how in other ways we have changed.
Sitting in the Stratton Student Center @MIT the TV screens are new (to me) and display "Congratulations 2013 Graduates"....some very happy families and friends saw the Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-55215733821956625352013-05-18T09:15:00.001-07:002013-05-18T09:15:30.416-07:00Homo Sapiens evolving to Homo Socio-SapiensThoughts for spring..... we are evolving and this is a fast part of a long cycle
Humans have been evolving and its been happening over so long, the changes have generally been so slow, we mostly don't take it into account in the course of one human life.
When I compare how I grew up to how my daughter grew up - I biked around the neighborhood every day after school - for fun! She walked to Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-901909040684320802013-02-11T20:22:00.000-08:002013-02-11T20:22:17.653-08:00Tribal Leadership - networking the tribesHappy Chinese New Year - the beginning of the year of the snake seems a great time to talk about this book Tribal Leadership - read last night and found very powerful and useful.
So much so, I was moved to mention put forward ideas triggered by the book in a comment at the blog about horizontal leadership by Charlie Detar at the MIT Center for Civic Media
Here's the radical thought - Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-31922662731680584692013-01-05T15:26:00.000-08:002013-01-05T15:26:08.125-08:00Happy New Year - 2013 - the year of mapping and meaningWhen people feel overwhelmed by the amount of information now available, I think of what it was like in the East Coast of America when there was a physical "Wild West frontier" and it was overwhelming to understand what was possible over there in the "Wild West". Today, there are maps, news, stories, and the West is not so wild.
Our digital frontier reminds me of the Wild West of olden days. We Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-30730542520016752382012-12-06T03:54:00.002-08:002012-12-06T03:54:16.343-08:00What's been happeningAttended the Knowledge Federation Conference at the Inter University Center in Dubrovnik Croatia - thanks to Dino Karabeg for the best conference organizing - we all arrived in Zagreb and took a 2 day bus ride through Bosnia which assured lots of serendipitous conversations - Sept/Oct 2012
FutureTalk - the community access TV show I co-founded and co-produce with Marty Wasserman the host of the Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-33218468466671600562012-12-06T03:48:00.003-08:002012-12-06T03:48:17.665-08:00Great Mobile stats
25% of Americans use the mobile device as their sole source of internet access – On Device Research
By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the web via mobile devices than PCs or other wireline channels – IDC Research
Read more....
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-24854739409899615622012-09-23T09:48:00.001-07:002012-09-23T09:48:17.308-07:00Seeing what is before youA beautiful 38 minute video about seeing as artists do.
Why is this important? The amount of information flooding our senses leads us to use our eyes to filter - as they have always done for us to see. So non-artists can begin to cultivate the skills of artists to develop clarity as the info flood threatens to overwhelm.
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-7138705393835283192012-08-11T07:56:00.000-07:002012-08-11T07:59:49.806-07:00The Colors of Well BeingJust a week ago, we went out camping and on Saturday morning, I wrote this blog post about beginning to recognize that there are so many colors for our health and well being, while we seem today to talk about this topic only in Black and White.
When I was growing up in a Chinese household in Singapore we visited my mother’s brother and sister’s homes every week or even more often. It is so Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-54950805747123156002012-06-23T12:14:00.001-07:002012-08-11T08:01:00.747-07:00Wisdom - Humanity's Cut-And-Come-Again Pudding
Last night I did something which I regret - which is to stand on a soap box and deliver a polemic at the MIT club of northern california meeting where Open Courseware was seeking feedback from the alumni community.
As part of purging myself from the excruciating feeling that I did my cause no benefit by doing that, I would like to share the thought in a less polemical way - ie what I Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-55611156805082808382012-06-06T07:53:00.004-07:002012-08-11T08:03:31.012-07:00What you think and say matters: Mental Hygiene We can get into a reactive mode where whatever happens draws our attention, and shapes what we say, do think and feel. In that case, there is not sense of a higher meaning for life, and we just feel helpless and resigned to live within an exhaust cloud of disappointment and frustration. OR we can be energized by a sense of hope for a better future and find those like-minded Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-55473440604526042762012-04-30T03:00:00.001-07:002012-08-11T08:05:07.864-07:00Health as a Team Sport
As a regular author at Global Customer Experience Management (G-CEM) here is my latest contribution Voice of the Customer - Health as a Team Sport, I was interested to see how to align the leading topics of Voice of the Customer with the work I have been doing in Federal Health Futures. While much of our work is under wraps, a few us recently presented last month at SxSW, in Austin Texas Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-14348491781559268092012-03-26T12:12:00.001-07:002012-08-11T08:07:03.885-07:0010 Ways to Visualize How Americans Spend Money on Health Care - The Atlantic10 Ways to Visualize How Americans Spend Money on Health Care - The Atlantic
For those who like graphs and charts - this shows it in many ways that how we decide to spend money individually and in the federal government, has lead to US health sitting on a lonely island outpost - of highest costs and #37 (or so) in outcomes.
Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13139307.post-12347892720111370902012-03-02T10:25:00.003-08:002012-03-02T10:27:37.874-08:00Coming up in March and April - SxSW, 30 blog posts in April!SxSW is an amazing conference that takes place in Austin Texas that brings together awesome people in Interactive Media, Film, software and all kinds of geeky fun creative and innovative talking, walking, an all-around festival for the mind and spirit. AND I'll be speaking on the Health as a Team Sport Panel on 3/13 9:30 am Classroom 204 - do you get that I would REALLY REALLY like you to come Mei Lin Funghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16348231140974276090noreply@blogger.com0