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Technology For Better Health And More On CHOM 97.7 FM

Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio out of Montreal (home base). It’s not a long segment – about 10 minutes every week – about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly on i Heart Radio, if you’re interested in hearing more of me blathering away about what’s going on in the digital world. I’m really excited about this opportunity, because this is the radio station that I grew up listening to, and it really is a fun treat to be invited to the Mornings Rock with Terry DiMonte morning show. The segment is called, CTRL ALT Delete with Mitch Joel.

This week we discussed:

Apps can help people’s health on many levels. If you’ve ever had a loved one in surgery, you know how long and painful the wait can be. There’s an app for that. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that startups (and even large health-care companies) are developing tools to give parents frequent updates on how a procedure is going. See, technology can do a lot of good!
More from Back to the Future. French inventor Franky Zapata has officially crossed the English Channel by hoverboard. On August 4, weeks after a failed Bastille Day flight, Zapata hopped on his jet-powered hoverboard that he invented, called the Flyboard Air, and set out to fly across the 35-kilometer channel. This time, he was successful. I had the pleasure of watching him do some “tests” at the TED conference last year.
Viral videos still work. Consider this: Nathan Patterson, 23, attended a Colorado Rockies game with his brother on July 15. He threw a pitch that clocked in at 96 miles per hour during a stadium speed challenge. He posted it to Twitter, and his pitch went viral. Two weeks later, he was signed to a team as a Major League Baseball player.
App of the Week: Standard eBooks.

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.