{"id":41,"date":"2011-05-12T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slantedhall.wordpress.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-05-12T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:00:55","slug":"mobile-health-2011-conference-trip-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slantedhall.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/12\/mobile-health-2011-conference-trip-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Health 2011 Conference Trip Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 4-5 May 2011, I attended the Mobile Health 2011<\/a>\u00a0conference (@texting4health<\/a>\u00a0and #MH11<\/a>)\u00a0at\u00a0Stanford. The theme: What Really Works<\/em>. I had very few expectations and was uncertain how it\u00a0would turn out. It was a great, well-run conference<\/strong>. BJ Fogg<\/a>\u00a0(@bjfogg<\/a>) and his team did a fabulous job.<\/p>\n

Each session<\/a>\u00a0included a panel of 3-4 speakers<\/a>, ending with a Q&A session at the\u00a0end. The majority of the 12-minute talks were interesting. Many of\u00a0the moderators asked the first question to get things started; all\u00a0should have done so. It helped maintain the nice flow of the conference. (I’ll definitely recommend this tactic–the moderator\u00a0starting off the Q&A session with the panel–for the conferences I\u00a0help organize.)<\/p>\n

There were ~20-25 minute breaks between each session to allow attendees\u00a0to meet and converse. I’d have preferred slightly longer breaks, but\u00a0mostly because I kept having nice conversations that kept being cut short. Many of the folk I\u00a0met were working on interesting projects; I hope to follow their work and\u00a0keep in touch. Though I missed getting to talk with a number of folk,\u00a0I believe there were still at least twenty with whom I did interact\u00a0and would like to stay in touch. \u00a0Overall, at the conference, we had<\/p>\n

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