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Twitter - follow me there
11 November 2008I find that since most of my blog posts can be quite short, it makes more sense to post them on Twitter. You can follow me by going to http://twitter.com/solalta
Great Slideshow on Social Media
24 July 2008Stumbled across a great slideshow on social media and it’s importance. http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-social-media
I think it’s worth a look.
Comments on the site
27 June 2008In order to enable more discussion, I’ve loosened the comment procedure for the blog. Hopefully, this will encourage some discussion. Comments will still be moderated, but I expect to allow everything but the spam through.
Manitoba Marathon
15 June 2008Ran my first half-marathon this morning. My official time was 2:04:51 which was significantly better than I’d hoped.
What a fabulous experience!! I’ve been training for a long time and this was the opportunity to prove that I could actually do it.
I’ve was very impressed with the whole event, but most impressed by the hundreds [...]
BIO on the Road
5 June 2008I’ve been asked to contribute some posts to the BIO on the Road Blog regarding this years BIO conference. I’ll create a link to the posts here:
The first one is “Preparing for BIO”: Which can be found at the BIO on the Road Blog.
Conferences and reasons to attend
17 April 2008I’ve been thinking about which conferences to attend this year. Obviously in my industry, BIO is the big one. There are also a number of small conferences that are more specific. It did get me thinking about what makes the most sense and my underlying reasons for going. I’ve distilled it down to the only [...]
How to send the wrong message
24 January 2008Got an unsolicited computer program in the mail yesterday. Came addressed as admail (which I wish I could get rid of entirely), but what got me was the high level of packaging that came with the product (a hard plastic case and CD) and the advertising on the package that suggested that one should make [...]
Committees
17 July 2007Saw a great quote on committees.
“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”
–Sir Barnett Cocks, Former Clerk of the House of Commons in the U.K.
Not been my experience entirely, but definitely seen it happen.
Interview with Mike Bristow of Myogen (Link)
7 March 2007Adam Rubenstein of Colorado Life Science Deal Flow (www.rnaventures.blogspot.com) is doing a live interview with Mike Bristow, M.D., Ph.D., founder of Myogen (Nasdaq: MYOG) who recently was acquired by Gilead for $2.5 billion, speaking about the company history from inception to exit. The interview will occur Thursday, March 8th at 9 AM MST.
Dr. Bristow was [...]
How not to sell a product
3 March 2007While I use Norton products to protect my computer against viruses and other nasties in the online world including spam (although given a recent bad experience with Norton Go-Back, I’m not sure that I would recommend them). I had a good chuckle when my Norton Anti-spam filter picked the following message as spam. The [...]
