Lori Mehen

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Raleigh, NC

Lori Mehen is an Account Manager in Brand Communications + Design at Red Hat. She grew up in Los Angeles, CA and now resides in Durham, NC with her husband and three kids. Lori enjoys water skiing, cooking and car racing.

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Open source magic

Magic has always been about creating illusions and guarding the secrets of how they’re done. If the secret is revealed, the amazement is gone forever. The secret preserved the…

Department of Veterans Affairs goes social

In an effort to help break down long-perceived barriers between the Department of Veterans Affairs and its stakeholders, the VA announced that it has established Facebook…

Open*Health: 2011 in review

This year has seen a good deal of discussion about the escalating costs of healthcare and shrinking access to it. Most of the discussion has centered around how to fix the…

mHealth 2012: Innovators Challenge

Today kicks off the 2011 mHealth Summit in Washington DC, which will run through December 7. The event is expected to be filled with announcements of emerging technologies in…

Open source cancer research

When it comes to treating, curing, and preventing cancer, modern medicine has largely failed. You could argue that cancer is far too complicated to unravel in the few millenia…

Drug companies try sharing

The multi-billion-dollar drug sector has endured a decade of under-performance. "Pfizer’s ( PFE ), Eli Lilly’s ( LLY ), Merck's ( MRK ), and Bristol Myers Squibb’s ( BMY )…