VisualShare - communicate with pictures - software solutions for image sharing and collaboration. VisualShare builds applications for organizations that need to share images, conduct reviews and document results.

I just read a great article by Ron Roszkiewicz titled GDSS: The Future of Online Meetings and True Digital Collaboration? In my opinion, this article was successful in communicating, in simple terms, how conferencing (and conferencing systems) differ from collaboration.

Today I had the opportunity to attend the Utah Technology Council (UTC) CEO P2P forum where the topic of discussion was “The Smartest Things I Ever Did”.

Technology is a moving target.

The target moves for a variety of reasons most of which are good: advancements, improvements, increased efficiency, and so on. While it is a challenge to keep up, adopting change that yields an increase in value is usually worth the pain to change.

Everyone has heard this pithy saying. We may or may not be able to apply this to our personal lives. But why is our government not capable of applying this saying to our national healthcare.

I decided to put this entry under "Technology" because I was consumed with my blogging (technology) while this even occurred.

The event is a complete destruction of my son's room by my daughter. When I was finally drawn to the disaster from my focus on technology I found a pile of diapers, clothes, wipey blocks, etc. Their faces told me that they were proud of their creation.

Windows Vista is many years delayed. It has arrived. I have not used it. I hear it does very neat things. Many of which I have concluded have existed on the new Mac OSX for as many years as Vista has been delayed. Hmmm.

Indeed that is the lesson. An easy thing to say but not so easy to do when you value integrity and honesty in yourself and in others. Oh yeah, and have much of your life on the line with a small business.

As I mentioned in a prior blog we have had a positive collaboration with Clarity Medical. Clarity Medical produces specialized cameras that take pictures of the retina. These pictures are used to diagnose eye diseases. One example is the disease Retinopathy of Prematurity or ROP which is increasing due to an increase in pre-mature births (9.4-12.3% between 1981 and 2003). This disease, depending on the severity, may result in blindness in children that are prematurely born (~80,000 per year). Therefore, swift, accurate diagnosis is essential for reducing morbidity and mortality (medical term for suffering).

Okay, there are time when someone tells me something and I read into it what fits or what I want to hear at the time. Then there are other times, believe it or not, that I am really listening and I take in every word at face value. Those very special times when I am really paying attention and I don't read anything into what is being said, then later discover that I misunderstood what was said...well...that is baffling.