Drawing value from your own data

Data about you and your behavior is big business. Here's a quick look at the work Opower and Wellness FX do to help you draw value from the energy and health data around and inside you.

Opower's President Alex Laskey, and other Opower employees, discuss how the company is using data innovation to provide customers with insights and information about their energy consumption.

When we're not making marketing videos, we like to create micro-documentaries about tech companies doing awesome things that inspire us. WellnessFX™ is a breakthrough web-based service that empowers individuals to understand and improve their health in a personalized and engaging way. Check out this video to find out how they help people feel better, have more energy & find out what’s going on inside their body - quickly and conveniently.

Opower has now saved 1 TWh of energy, and we've made a short film to show what that represents.

WellnessFX is a web-based platform that gives you deep insights into the state of your health by combining advanced lab diagnostics and tracking along with phone consultations with certified health professionals. WellnessFX aggregates the underlying biomarkers of the primary detractors of wellness, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hormonal imbalances and nutritional deficiencies.

Social Learning Summit 2013

​Up early for the second day of the Social Learning Summit at American University. I've attended this since it's inaugural year in 2011. Besides getting to visit the AU campus, it's a great chance to hear some great panels and get some insight into new ways schools, organizations, and individuals are using social media.

Uniting the World through Music

Tritonal performs during the 2013 Ultra Music Festival in Miami, FL

​Every once in awhile you stop to appreciate the moment we live in. Today it was as I stood in National Airport here in DC, waiting to see a friend off before she boarded her flight.

As I waited, my smartphone and headphones connected me LIVE to the music coming from Armin Van Buuren's A State of Trance show. Every 50 episodes, Van Buuren hosts a huge tour around this time every year - this time for episode 600 of his global radio show. ​This year he's taken his live tour from places near as Miami, New York, and Mexico City - and as far as Kuala Lumpur, Minsk, and Sofia.

Each time I tune in, I marvel not only of that fact that I can listen in from just about anywhere from a device in my pocket - but also by the the fact that people all over the world are doing the same.​