This is a very special video interview because Dr. Susan Malinowski, MD, delivers a vital medical message that can help saves lives or at the very least improve them. Dr. Malinowski, a well known and highly respected ophthalmologist from Southfield, Michigan, explains that the medical industry has made many technological advances in the last five years that many diseases that were once viewed as “extreme hardships” can now be cared for successfully, if caught early. “Catching it” early is the operative word for many people who do not go to doctors on a regular basis. Dr. Malinowski explains in detail how certain diseases like diabetes and/or macular degeneration are no longer be considered a pre cursor to blindness if a patient practices preventive medicine. That means visiting your various doctors once or twice a year.

The genius of Dr. Malinowski is that she can speak to the masses in language we can understand even though there is a lot of sophisticated jargon behind the scenes. The video is a little fuzzy because yours truly had the JVC HD video recorder on the wrong setting. We decided to post the interview anyway because the message is so strong and innovative. By the way, Dr. Malinowski didn’t know it at the time, but the interviewer (me) had been walking around with shingles for three days without being properly treated.

Results: extreme pain and suffering for much more time than necessary. One visit to the doctor and the patient was on the road to recovery

This interview will forever be imbedded in my mind. I wanted to share it with you as soon as possible.

You heard it here first. There is a new cutting edge procedure, called Brain State, sometimes referred to as Brain Training, that uses computer enhanced biofeedback to optimize brain function. Its shown success with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, overeating, sleep disorders, post traumatic stress syndrome and much more.

Its a completely non-invasive, individually tailored process of balancing and harmonizing the brain

Our sister blog, “Lying On The Beach”, talked with Williams Lucena LMHC who runs BRAIN & BEHAVIORAL INSTITUTE OF SOUTH FLORIDA (www.bbisf.com). The office is located in the heart of Coconut Grove, Miami. It’s a multi-discipline professional office which deals with mental health issues and provides a wide range of mental health services to the community. Whether it is individual therapy or in combination with Brain State Training™, their services are tailored to fit their clients’ needs.

For background information on Brain Training and BRAIN & BEHAVIORAL INSTITUTE OF SOUTH FLORIDA, check out this TV news segment produced by Miami’s ABC station:

http://www.justnews.com/video/22119737/index.html

Sheryl R. Schultz, Managing Director of the Boston office of Golden Seeds, spells out what every start up needs to know about angel investing. She even gives some info about the difference between VC’s and private equity. Sheryl is a long time marketer who started angel investing in start ups many years ago. She started investing in the telecommunications industry where she had a deep understanding of the market dynamics and technology shifts. Three years ago, she joined Golden Seeds, which currently has over 120 members located in four locations throughout the country.

Golden Seeds has a long term mission of funding female-owned and operated businesses – this group traditionally receives less than 8% of VC funding.

Here are some topics Sheryl covers:

• What is an angel investor?
• What is the timeframe for an angel investment?
• What type of company should consider angel funding?
• What do angels typically look for in a company?
• What are different types of alternate funding sources for start up companies who do not, or cannot, raise funds through angels or VCs?

They say timing is everything and the movie “It’s Complicated” starring Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin couldn’t have debuted at a better time to show the world the new face of fabulous women 50 and over. Geri Brin, Founder of www.faboverfifty.com said Meryl Streep’s character in the movie personifies fabulous women 50 and over because she is confident, fulfilled, independent, determined and ready for new challenges. That is what the new web site, which will go live late February, 2010, is all about. Geri Brin and her team are going to change the complexion of the advertising world.

Geri details in this podcast why the corporate world and Madison Avenue are going to have to start addressing this segment of the population that now controls $19 trillion of net worth and is standing 51 million tall. FabOverFifty is going to be a destination where accomplished women are going to share information on what makes them fabulous. From beauty and fashion to books and wine, women are going to be able to have a tremendous resource where they can extrapolate information for their fast pace lives.

Geri claims that the advertising world is just starting to recognize this demographic after 40 years of focusing on the 18 to 34 age group. “The changes are subtle but they are strong, A year from now more and more companies will be targeting women 50 and above as their first priority when they realize the power of this group. The entire shift is going to be very interesting to watch. And it will definitely happen. You heard it here first.”

Geri, son Colby and daughter Simone

Just when we thought the Smartphone was smart enough along comes Toktumi, (Talk To Me) with a new app that actually turns your cell into a VOHO, Virtual Office, Home Office.  Peter Sisson, Founder and CEO of Toktumi, coined the acronym because now companies with less than 10 people can use Line2 as a second line on an iPhone or Blackberry. Two numbers, two sets of contacts, two voice mail greetings, all on one phone. Line2 gives you many of the features you have on a business phone—press one for Lois, press two for Steve, etc.  Lois (that’s me) is starting her 30 day free trial now so check back to see what she thinks about it. 

“I can’t wait to try Line2 because I don’t want to be a slave to my company’s business system,” she said. “After listening to Peter explain the features I felt this was my future. I want to be one of those road warriors you hear about. I don’t mind working around the clock. I just don’t want to be tied down to one location. Peter promises the following additional features for just $14.95 a month:”

• Ability to pick a new local number, an 800 number, or transfer an existing number;
• Powerful office features such as auto receptionist, instant conferencing for up to 20 people, visual voicemail, voicemail by email, call transfer, call waiting, caller ID, call hold and call forwarding all without the need for special phones or equipment;
• Access to all of their office phone features whether they’re on a mobile phone, Wi-Fi-connected laptop or PC;
• Freedom to make and take calls with their toktumi number on their mobile phone;
• Caller announce via the toktumi Mobile Assistant™ that allows callers to screen calls, set different greetings for business or personal calls and route callers to designated voicemails;
• The convenience of being able to search their address books and online directories to place calls just by typing the name, company or category they are looking for;
• Multiple extensions with centralized billing, which allows small business owners to track employee calling and manage phone expenses;
• Unlimited PC-based calling to U.S./Canada and ultra low international rates from their mobile phone, PC or laptop;
• No additional equipment, annual contracts, calling plans or activation/termination fees to worry about;
• Commitment-free, non-tiered pricing model based on a single, monthly fee of $14.95, with no additional fees or per-minute charges

The service is newly available through Dell (www.toktumi.com/dell), Staples.com (www.toktumi.com/staples), and www.toktumi.com.

Dan Kelley, D-Link’s senior director of marketing, tells What’s Wow Now, why the technology in Broadband is changing, why is it going Green, and what consumers and businesses need to know going forward. Dan Kelley has been head of marketing for 10 years, and leads a marketing department of more than 25 people. D-Link NA includes the US and Canada with some 500 employees. They manufacture, distribute and market more than 100 products in both the consumer and business markets. And that’s not all…………………. .

Mike Rivamonte, a former Broadway set and marketing designer, has been making whimiscal characters out of antique camera and electronic parts for years. He is currently showing his sculptures at Miami’s Bakehouse Art Complex, an art studio. Steve Greenberg of What’s Wow Now interviews Mike on his amazing innovation. www.mrivamonte.com . Big scoop – Mike just sold one of his sculptures to Marty Margulies, one of the biggest art collectors in the world.

You will hear more about this in our next Vlog but we were blown away
when we discovered this piece of art in Miami’s Bakehouse. Thanks to
talented sculptor Mike Rivamonte, What’s Wow Now may have found “its
calling”.

Let’s play ball on the Internet.

75 million people a month already do. There are 75 million sports fans that search the Internet each month to find the latest and the greatest news and information about their favorite team or player. Most fans have to rely on their local newspapers for info, but they find that limiting. Local newspapers don’t really give them the big picture scope. Yahoo tries to be the big picture platform, capturing 24 million monthly fans. Pretty impressive? For a while, yes.

Enter Ty Ahmad-Taylor, formerly of Comcast and Viacom, where he learned to deliver customized content to a very strong fan base. Now he is doing the same thing for sports with the creation of fanfeedr.com, a leading edge aggregator that gives real time sports news in one space, with one single feed. Fans customize what they want when they want it — teams and players. Users can also interact with other sports fans.

FanFeedr encourages sports fans to use Facebook for login because they know you don’t want to sign up for another social network. The site is indexing over 3,000 sources and matching them against more than 50,000 athletes and 4,000 sports teams, including 1,700 colleges and universities across 15 sports.

What’s Wow Now has seen it all, but this time we are really blown away by the Pulse Smartpens, a computer in a pen that digitally captures and syncs handwriting and audio together. This is so perfect for anyone who takes a lot of notes, hears great sound bites that they want to use again, and then can’t read their scribbles when it comes time to transcribe. It has happened to Steve and Lois a trillion times in their school and work life. In fact, everyone at one time or another has thought to themselves, “Why can’t there be a recorder in this pen that synchronizes with the notes I am taking so all I have to do is point to words I wrote and have the audio tell me what I can’t read?” Whala, it is here. This is going to amaze you.

What’s Wow Now interviews Karen Lee, Senior Marketing Manager of Livescribe, who tells us all about the making and marketing of various Pulse Smartpens the company is now offering. Unless you listen to the podcast, you are truly not going to understand the dynamics of the Pulse Smartpens. Yes, we have all seen and heard about a pen with a recorder, but who ever thought you could capture more than 400 hours of recorded audio. The most expensive pen Livescribe is offering is the 4GB at $199. 95 and the 2GB model is $169.95. The company is located in Oakland, Calif. For more information, email Jody Farrar at Edelman – jfarrar@ar-edelman.com