Geek Dinner Thursday 7-31 at Paradise Bakery

Looking for the Utah geeks, bloggers and coders? You’ll find them at the Utah Geek/Blogger Dinner. This month, we’re meeting at Paradise Bakery. If you have been feeling lonely for computer conversation in the Salt Lake Valley, you’ll find it all here!
THEY HAVE WI-FI, so you can bring your laptop if you want!
RSVP at Upcoming.org: [...]

4 Factors Creating Utah Workforce Funk

There’s no question something interesting is happening with Utah’s professional/technical workforce right now, and I think there are no less than four competing factors at play any business-owner should be paying very close attention to:

Real and Wage Inflation
Intense Competition for Talent
Corporate cost-cutting
High Energy/Commute Costs

The hardest part to pin-down is that the economic indicators show a [...]

Utah Tries Four Day Work-Week

On August 4th, Utah will begin its move to a four-day work week, a move that should save up to about 20% of the state’s expenses by 2015.
The change will apply to about 17,000 employees, roughly 80% of the state workforce, [Utah State Governor] Huntsman says. Public universities, the state court system, prisons and other [...]

Calendar: May CTO Forum Friday (Tomorrow)

One of my favorite events each month is coming up tomorrow (Friday, 5/30). Phil Windley’s CTO Forum/Breakfast at the Novell Cafeteria in Provo (map).
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Anyone interested in how information technology is used to build products or run companies. Despite it’s name, you don’t have to be a CTO to attend—just interested in technology, where [...]

CouchCast Interviewing Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices

Today, on the couch, we have Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices. He’s interviewed some very interesting companies lately, and he’s coming on the show today to talk to us about it.

Showtime is HIGH NOON (Mountain). Listen in at (347) 324-3797 (limited lines) or stream online with a chat-room at couchcast.org. Download the show as [...]

Podcamp SLC is THIS Saturday 3-15-2008

Details from Laura Moncur:
Thom Allen and Brad Baldwin are sponsoring PodCampSLC in Salt Lake City THIS Saturday March 15, 2008 a10am - 4pm at the Neumont University.
10701 S. River Front Parkway, Suite 300
South Jordan, UT 84095
http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/PodCampSLC
It’s a BarCamp for new media: blogging, podcasting, vlogging, etc. If you are a blogger, this is the event that [...]

Calendar: CodeAway & RockBand on Saturday

The CodeAway will be this Saturday at WasatchWingz in SLC.  This is a TON OF FUN. You should come!  $15 gets you in the door, a plate full of amazing WINGS and hours of geeking, RockBand and games, and a lot of fun.
RSVP on Upcoming.org
Here is a very specific Google Map targeting exactly the location [...]

The Next-Greatest Generation?

SPOILER: I am going to talk about religion (namely mormonism) and business and millenial generation differences all in the same blog post. If this offends you, may I suggest lolcats instead of the following.
No, these aren’t a group of Mormon Missionaries.
They’re high school “kids”. And they’re also not dressing up for career-day, or college admissions [...]

Join the Conversation! BE HEARD!

For the last three years, I’ve been going to user group events, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, codeaways… camps, you name it.  All along, I’ve been pleased to meet some of our present and past contractors or other individuals we helped in their employment transition.
But, we’ve done a poor job of creating a real community around our [...]

Podcamp SLC - March 29th, 2008

Thom Allen, notes on his blog that the Podcamp SLC has been scheduled for:
PodcampSLC
March 29th, 2008, from 10AM to 4PM. at Neumont University
Check in will take place from 9AM-10AM.
For more information, see podcampSLC.org or the event page at upcoming.org

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