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MLOVE: A LITTLE MOBILE ZEN FOR THE SOUL
Lindsey C. Holmes July 12, 2012
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I spent a most empowering week in a castle in Germany, exploring the current state anthe future of mobile. The MLOVE ConFestival gathered 200 thought leaders fro
around the world, exploring how communication and mobile are progressing quick
and how it is indeed our responsibility to make mobile technology usable helping th
underserved, challenging human constraint, and communicating more effectively as
society.
The opening session featured Jonathan MacDonald, cofounder of marketing agency th
fluid world, who vividly expressed mobile as originating from the African drum beaSince its rhythms were used to represent an idea, to communicate far distances, an
even sometimes to confuse with dual meaning, he said, it was indeed our first mobi
device.
We learned nemonic memory tricks from a USA National Memory Champion, Chest
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Santos, who argued that mobile should not be an excuse to forget or limit human inte
action. By demonstrating his memory of the names of the people he met that day 4
plus attendees he taught us the importance of human communication and how mobi
ty should be a means to enhance this.
Transmedia specialist Mara Balestrini expressed how mobile is changing the climate Latin America. She showcased her social project featuring senior citizens, who began
understand the importance of mobile only when given iPhones and a challenge to nav
gate in an unknown part of town. They found the Maps app and delighted at findin
their way through town easily. Technology became usable to them, and they were so a
preciative.
We learned about Singularity, the theory where man meets machine, and expert Yu
Van Geest talked about how its actually occurring now with devices like the Nike FuBand. These electronic monitoring devices will become second nature, he said, and the
ability to track and monitor our health will prove invaluable for a declining health ca
system.
Scientists from PCH Innovations concluded day one (yes, this was only the first day
They demonstrated the future in a video with a car that expresses your emotion
through smiling or frowning headlights, a completely solar hospital that they are cu
rently building, and clothing made of LED screens that (once advertisers get their wawill most definitely be flooding Fashion Week with advertising but so is mobile, an
the world is converging.
The conference culminated with some phenomenal startup pitches. I wondered wheth
startups would pitch better if all tech conferences were set in such a supportive ecosy
tem in love. Every mobile app developer, digital innovator, startup, social entrepr
neur, small business owner, and simply anyone with a desire to be the change the
want to see who understands that this change will heavily rely on mobile techshould have the opportunity to bring about that change. MLOVE demonstrated the pr
gression of technology in its most human and altruistic form to make the world bette
a point often forgotten as we use our social networks to spread gossip or devour th
hottest new game.
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About the Author Lindsey C. Holmes
Lindsey C. Holmes is the CEO/Lead Strategist of LCH Business SM & Tech,
digital marketing firm based in Newark, NJ, with an office also in Washin
ton, DC. Lindsey is the Evernote Small Business Ambassador, a self-taught d
veloper, a proud geek, and mom of a shih-tzu named Banks. She spends her free tim
converting the masses to understand and apply the technology that will make their liv
better. Follow her on Twitter @lindseycholmes.
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