Joost Van Nispen @ Jornada EUROECOM 08

L’Anella have posted a video of Joost Van Nispen speaking at the Jornada Euroecam08.
Click here to watch (in Spanish)

21st Century Deception

When I was a kid I believed the future would be a tech paradise….
Standing in chaotic queue at the hospital, everybody crammed into a small space to keep their place while the seats are empty becuse there is no turn system
Why can’t the doc do this - he’s sending me to another doctor -why can’t he do the appointment from his computer instead of sending me to the disorganised queue for appointments
Holding 3 copies of the same paper - paperless office anyone? The paper has a sticker with a bar code…
Health centre and hospiital computers not linked so my old address appears from Barcelona - trivial but what about records in an emegency situation?

Please, please, please let Google organise the health adminstration because clearly the administrators now DO NOT KNOW HOW TO…

notes for a post, written on the iPhone from the Hospital Arnau in Lleida

ACC1Ó?

Writing this on the iPhone on the way back to Lleida from the Jornada Euroecom organized by ACC1Ó, a new initiative by the Generalitat to promote innovation in business.
The event was aptly summed up by a question after one of the speeches when somebody asked for advice about a start-up instead of all the examples given about big companies. As usual the structure of the event was old school while talking about innovation and web 2.0. ACC1Ó should realize that events have to be 2.0 as well. The speakers had a wealth of experience, but the format was that of “experts” dispensing knowledge instead of getting down & dirty…

See The Plate is Hot for a rundown on the event by Ricard Espelt (in Catalan).

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One Minute Catalan in the press

One Minute Catalan has recieved some very good press in Catalonia, from both El Punt and vilaweb. Click here for El Punt pdf and here for Vilaweb 
Read what Mark Pentleton of Radio Lingua Network has to say about the coverage here

What 2008 has in store

Well it’s been a crazy start to 2008 - as you can see from the image above, we’re working away on various projects (& suffering from the flu) - Montse Guitar Sessions (now live), Better Your English Online, the Spanish sauce Spanish food& drink resource & Ana’s resource site for her new Spanish classes. The next couple of weeks will see the launch of our entry level English course for Spanish/Catalan speakers and we’ve a couple of more projects to put the final touches to. Keep watching this space…

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