Calendar: Utah Tech Spotlight — DOBA

Take a breather Thursday and go check out Doba, courtesy of the jockeys over at TwelveHorses. P.S. Don’t forget that Doba is hosting Guy Kawasaki in a few weeks:
“Not only has Jeremy been very successful in building his company here in Utah (currently ranked the 23rd fastest growing privately held business in the Nation), [...]

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Calendar: Guy Kawasaki Speaking in Utah November 1st, 2007

I noticed in my Connect email this morning that Guy Kawasaki will be speaking in Utah (brief autobiography) on November 1st, 2007 (). He will be speaking on business, and it’s expected that he reveal everything unknown in the known universe… or, at lease a few cool things about How to Innovate and Change [...]

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Event: Utah Open Source Conference Underway in Provo

The Utah Open Source Conference kicked off Thursday evening with a dinner/reception followed by the Utah Open Source Awards and keynote addresses by Matt Asay and Bruce Perens.
Of course, since the conference is happening at Novell’s Open Source Technology Center, there’s an interesting spike in the blogs about Novell and Microsoft’s recent partnership and how [...]

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Calendar: Utah Blogger, Geek Dinner Thursday (8/30)

Ash has the scoop
…our geek dinner has been moved to this Thursday, August 30.
Join us at Applebees in Draper, Utah at 6 pm:
123 E. 12300 S.
Draper, UT 84020
(801) 495-4460

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EVENT: Speaking on Mid-Career Development at PLUG Wed. 8-7

Wednesday this week, I am speaking on Mid-Career Development at the Provo Linux User’s Group, which meets at United Online in Orem (directions, etc).

Date: Wednesday Aug 8, 2007
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: United Online
PLUG:
This month we have a unique guest presenter coming to PLUG. Robert Merrill from SOS Technical is coming to address the group. Robert is [...]

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Geek Dinner Tomorrow 7/26

After a couple months off, we’re finally getting a bunch of bloggers together again to recap Summer 2007.
Goodwood BBQ Draper
133 E 12300 S
Draper, [...]

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Help Me Promote Utah Tech Events

UPDATE 8/14/2007 — This has all mostly changed.
There’s a booming meetup community in Utah — user-groups, techies, geeks, entrepreneurs, bloggers and all sorts of other types of people getting together to talk shop, talk dirt, or just talk.
But getting a clear picture of who is meeting… and when… is pretty hard.
So, to try and help, [...]

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Say ‘Hell, No’ to iProvo

“No matter how cheery your customer service and sales associates are, when you don’t deliver basic services, you’re doomed to failure.”

Working with iProvo was great until they actually needed to deliver on something promised.
Yes, this is a rant, and I am hopping mad. If you are a blogger, your linkback is appreciated to help [...]

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Bozofication Alive and Well: Utah Companies Will Pay for Stupidity

UPDATE: Please leave comments about BOZO things you have experienced at your or other companies! Anonymous submissions OK
I hate to say it, but I am seeing some of the most foolish and downright stupid things coming from Utah companies these days. These things may not be approaching the Yee-Haw ‘Bozofication’ problems that Guy [...]

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Dear Best Buy: Past Performance != Future Performance

I walked into the Salt Lake City Best Buy today at 5000-ish South State Street in SLC, hopeful. I am looking for the needed stuff to hook up my iPod to my VW Passat’s factory stereo. I am expecting to spend about $500 on these adapters and wires and stuff, when I can [...]

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