PICU Without Walls at IBM Impact

If you have twenty minutes and want to see something that I think is pretty awesome, fast forward to about the 31 minute mark in the video above.

The video is of Dr. Jeffrey Burns from Children’s Hospital Boston describing how the team that I work with at IBM Interactive is helping to transform pediatric healthcare. Dr. Burns is a really compelling presenter and the presentation was described as “TED class” by James Governer, Co-founder of RedMonk.

Although I had minimal involvement with this project (I participated in one of the very initial workshops), I am extremely proud of being a part of IBM Interactive in Boston for doing this work. More directly involved were Adam and Jodi Cutler, Dave Martin, Michael Corbridge and Casey Dugan (from IBM Research).

On a more personal note, by sort of a lucky twist, Dr. Burns was Edmund’s doctor just after he was born during our week long stay at Children’s. He is every bit as an amazing doctor as you would expect from watching the video.

Kim and I felt extremely blessed and lucky to have had access to such great care for our son.

The IBM Interactive Weblog

As many of my friends know, for the past two years I’ve been working on the social media strategy for IBM Global Business Services. There have been many good ones, but without a doubt, this project has been the most enjoyable one on which I’ve had a chance to work over the past 10 years.

We’re at the beginning of the deployment phase of our project, so the first small pieces of our work are just now becoming visible.

It has been a long time coming, but here is my first post on our new IBM Interactive Weblog.

Also, here’s a link to my friend Jodi’s post on the very cool (and very important) work she’s been doing with Children’s Hospital in Boston.

I’m thinking that I probably will be posting *most* (but not all) of my work related stuff over there for the foreseeable future.