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.

VisualShare recently presented at the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual meeting in Seattle, WA the worlds largest scientific meeting and exposition focused exclusively on telemedicine.

In a previous blog I have stated how great the iPhone is. It is so great that we use it for sales presentations while on the road. The Flashy-ness of the phone really lends itself to presentations. Of course, Hollywood has placed Apple products for years based upon the same reasoning.

After committing myself to not being an early technology adopter I have gone and done it. That is, I bought an iPhone. I have owned many smartphones and PDA's which now rattle around in my desk drawer. I cannot throw them away because of how much money I spent on them only to find them completely worthless 9-12 months later.

Just this morning I read a brief article in BioIT World by Michael Greeley a managing general partner of IDG Ventures. The article makes the the important point that academic institutions are full of innovation and represent a portfolio of inventions that have high commercial potential. Of course, the potential is only realized with seasoned management. No argument here.

However, he makes the case that VC's are not tapping into this value and would be well served to do so.

On Dec 29, 2007 the Wall Street Journal published an article called "VC's New Math: Does Less = More?". The article showcases the approach of Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and their recent success with Facebook. Their approach seems to make some sense. In a nutshell, the article makes the argument for smaller amounts of venture investments (less than $1 M) as opposed to apparent $2M rule of thumb.

Mike Gotta in his blog Collaborative Thinking brought up an interesting topic on "Presence" in his blog Social Presence: We Need To Push The Reset Button. Most people know presence by way of instant messaging. They log-in to their instant messenger or chat application and their "presence" appears to all other users in their "buddy list". For the most part this is where it ends. However, it need not end there.

I have just confirmed that VisualShare will have a booth at the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) 15th annual conference October 17-20 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A recent article in CytoJournal on the Introduction of the Thin Prep Imaging System™ (TIS) illustrates a not-so-obvious use-case for VisualStrata™. During the evaluation of TIS cytotechnologists reviewed the image as well to see how well TIS (and the cytotechnologists!) were doing in interpreting images for detecting cervical cancer.

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.

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.

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.

Hey Chris how many times have you dreaded a pending teleconference? Or for that matter, how many times have you listened to me complain about a pending teleconference? The hesitation could be for a variety of reasons such as not knowing how to get a conversation started with the participants, facing the same old explanation of your business offering and technology (software in our case) while trying to make it sound good…ughhhh. Here at VisualShare we have discovered that every once in awhile, just when you think you cannot do this teleconference thing again, you hit the mark.

Welcome to Metablog, VisualShare's dialog. As founders of VisualShare, Chris and I decided to launch a diablog that we can use to collect and catalog our experiences and challenges from our perspectives. It has been brought to my attention rececently that some people would find the everyday dialog that Chris and I have regarding technology development, imaging, collaboration as interesting. As difficult as I find that statement, I hope that if you do find any of what we put in this blog interesting that you comment and please be critical it helps us think outside of the box.