Author Archives: Jennifer Asumaa

Free Candy for You and Yours

Daily Candy, a daily email service of nifty new products and services, mainly entrepreneurial in nature, offers this gem. Good Search, a new search engine partnered with Yahoo, allows searchers to donate to the cause of their choice every time they go hunting for information. Per the bio, Good Search is founded by a brother and sister team who lost ...

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The Good Old Days

This article has been floating around the internet for a few years now: Good Housekeeping’s advice to women on how to prepare for their husband’s daily homecoming. For some, it is a look back at “The Good Old Days”. For others, it is a look back at a very limiting environment for a lot of people. Imagine today with a ...

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“Long Tailing” It from Another Perspective

Although technologically aware, I am not a technology cheerleader, but rather a cautious explorer. Figuring there are people even less inclined to adopt new technology, I look for methods to soften the implementation process and get people on board. One way is to combine the new with a positive familiar. In my case the positive familiar is animals. RealAge, an ...

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My professional training and most of my experience took place with not-for-profit and small for-profit health care providers. During that time, a certain large for-profit hospital chain was seen as a decimator of small town and city hospitals. They bought hospitals to pull out cash and then close them, leaving their employees without jobs and communities without an acute care ...

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