Maria Niles

Badass. Loves everyone, hugs inappropriately. Connector, curious & likes to share
Many thanks to any friends who can take a quick survey re @BlogHer +/- https://surveys.blogher.com/se... (ps I especially love open ended answers #nerd)
Patients Are Not Consumers - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
As I said earlier, there’s something terribly wrong with the whole notion of patients as “consumers” and health care as simply a financial transaction. Medical care, after all, is an area in which crucial decisions — life and death decisions — must be made. Yet making such decisions intelligently requires a vast amount of specialized knowledge. Furthermore, those decisions often must be made under conditions in which the patient is incapacitated, under severe stress, or needs action immediately, with no time for discussion, let alone comparison shopping. - Maria Niles
RealNichelle: Welcome to the more than 1,000 of you that joined me since yesterday. You're not Following me - you're now part of our community. - http://twitter.com/RealNic...
Given that today's business casual look might also be described as "corporate hobo," I might need a fashion intervention.
Amused that I'm seeing love & hate for POTUS Facebook Town Hall hold music. The hold music, people. Actual TH reaction should be a doozy!
Excellent post! RT @professorkim: New @Blogher: How Parents and Teachers Should Teach Children About Slavery: http://bit.ly/gI5Ckz
Stopped by the Rockridge Payless/Super Longs/CVS when I was over in Oakland Sunday http://bit.ly/fpczen End of an era & sad to see it go.
*Makes plan to send @Mollena a banana tree with bonus statue of Ganesha in the pot* Wait, banana trees can grow in pots, right?
Yes, they can. Just watch for ants. - Anika
Thought provoking post: http://www.blogher.com/dancing... -- Dancing (While Black and Disabled) | BlogHer. Be sure to read pg 2 for bird position photo.
Those are some thought provoking questions. I'm happy for her that she's doing what she loves regardless of being in a chair. It's a shame that others in her class look down on her. - Anika
CarolACain: thank god for the punks, they embraced me like a lost child. I wasn't Black, or Puerto Rican, or a cheerleader. @Charlie_O - http://twitter.com/CarolAC...
A Month of Breakfasts: Hop on the Green Smoothie Love Train - http://www.blogher.com/month-b...
BlogHer's @ElisaC: is interviewing Gloria Steinem on Thursday. What should she ask her? http://www.blogher.com/what-wo...
Have to say, this Lincoln offer is one of the smartest marketing efforts I've seen in a long time. http://online.wsj.com/article... Thank you @Ford
So true! RT @kalynskitchen: Very exciting watching @honeybeast (from @BlogHer) on Jeopardy tonight! Wow, that woman is smart!
More liveblogs from #blogherbet added here http://www.blogher.com/node... 3 from smarty-pants @shannonrosa - go read!
Liveblog from the Business Track: The Brand http://www.blogher.com/blogher... #blogherbet
Liveblog from the lunch keynote: What Conveys Leadership in a Crowded Market? http://www.blogher.com/blogher... #blogherbet
Switching between working on a laptop & an iPad. Keep tapping on my laptop screen & grrr-ing when it doesn't respond. Madness.
I'm going to reach out to you behind the scenes to get you real take on the iPad. I'm like 80% there, but still unsure. - Lynne d Johnson
Saw my first @square in the wild yesterday. On a lark asked accountant if she had one so I could pay w/ card & she did! Fun & flawless.
Kurt_Vonnegut: The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. - http://twitter.com/Kurt_Vo...
Though not wearing green today, I think the delicious jalapeno slaw on my Bakesale Betty chicken sandwich counts as eating of the green :)
Yum! I may take myself over there for lunch on one of my vacation days! - vicster.
ayse: WTF. RT @swirlspice: Booooo! RT @webinista: Dear #SXSW marketers: this shit needs to stop. http://t.co/MhTVWYN - http://twitter.com/ayse...
acarvin: Glynn Washington: My African-American daughter speaks 2 her Punjabi friend in Spanish about eating sushi on her b-day. That's their world. - http://twitter.com/acarvin...
cookbook: Sweet Potato Pie: USA. Peel,boil lb sweettater. Mash+½c buttr; mix+c sug/½c milk/2egg/½t nutmeg&cinn/t vanil/¼t salt. Fill PieShell. h@350F. - http://twitter.com/cookboo...
JenTroester: #blogher needs a special needs section. - http://twitter.com/JenTroe...
A smart, must read about social media for brands, marketers & strategists: Who owns social media (redux) http://getgood.com/roadmap... by @sgetgood
geekandahalf: Tim Burton is doing Hunchback of Notre Dame? Yawn. You wanna impress me? Remake "Do the Right Thing". - http://twitter.com/geekand...
Someone shut that boy up! ;) - Derrick
Black History Month: Why I Identify as Black - http://www.blogher.com/black-h...
African American Lives: American History and My Family Tree - http://consumerpop.typepad.com/popcons...
Wow, that's an amazing family tree. - Anika
If you haven't registered yet, just a reminder that early bird pricing for BlogHer '11 ends Monday Feb 28 - http://www.blogher.com/frame... (via Lori)