Marcus Sortijas

Male

Honolulu, HI

United States

Profile Information:

Occupation:
Blogger / Vlogger / New Media Writer, Web Developer
Company:
TEDx Honolulu
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
WordPress, social media, web design, Linux, writing.
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:
HTML
About Me:
I'm a member of the Art & Design (Online) team that built the website for TEDx Honolulu (http://tedxhonolulu.org).

Passionate about using WordPress as a content management system. Interested in how great content, social media, and search engine optimization can together drive traffic to websites.

I'm available for web design and consulting. You can check out my portfolio at http://virtualbrandmarketing.com.

As for non-technical hobbies, I love traveling. Been documenting my trips abroad in stories and photos since 2004. You can check out my travel blog at http://www.marcusgoesglobal.com.

After graduating from college with a B.A. in English Creative Writing, I spent 5 years working and traveling in Asia. I lived in Shanghai and Taipei. Picked up Mandarin Chinese along the way.
Website:
http://www.marcussortijas.com/
Secondary Website:
http://virtualbrandmarketing.com
Twitter Username
msortijas

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  • Elyse M Petersen

    Aloha Marcus, great to meet you yesterday! I am always really excited to meet people that have a skill to offer the world like yourself. I'm sure I'll be seeing you around now, hope to see you at the TEDx event this weekend. I just wanted to show you the website I mentioned yesterday here. As you can see it is really flashy and eye grabbing, but not very interactive. Would you like to help me by giving a few pointers? Also, check out our TechHui Group here.

    Apr 18, 2011

  • Ryan Lerone

    Hi Marcus,

     

    Thanks!  It's good to be here. 

    Apr 21, 2011

  • Branden Tanga

    Thanks for the link. The unfortunate part is that data is very valuable in terms of cold hard cash. Even more so, because healthcare data is difficult to acquire and rarely generated (think number of hospital visits/year vs how many search queries/year). 

     

    Even in the link, GE (which sells one of the largest, expensive, enterprise-y ehr's out there) has a project called healthymagination, which looks and is awesome. However, when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, they are giving away reports on healthcare data, they are not giving away healthcare data for other people to consume. 

     

    Though this looks interesting: http://www.health2challenge.org/

    They've got a few developer challenges that are due at the end of summer. Maybe there's enough people in Hawaii with an interest that could take a crack at this?

    Jun 17, 2011