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Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004 (No. 44)
Editor &
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Tom
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President/CEO
Technology
2020
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Nashville Technology Council's
first Nashville Technology
Innovation Conference will be
held, Wednesday, May 18, 2005, with emphasis on
innovations that address current and emerging
technology needs of enterprises large and small.
The unprecedented NTC half-day event will be at
BellSouth Auditorium, downtown Nashville. Speakers
will include select national and Tennessee
technology leaders. Registration, sponsorship,
exhibit and related details are forthcoming. For
more info as it is available, please write
here with
subject "NTIC2005."
CIBER Inc. wins
major Federal outsourcing and innovation
contract centered at Ft. Campbell,
release Oct. 25.
Memphis Bus. Journal, Oct. 25.
PalmGear (PowerByHand) CEO
perceives inadequate pool of Nashville tech
talent, says he's raised $27 million
since leaving Nashville for NC, has changed name
to Motoricity, NashvillePost.com, Oct. 22.
Related story, Raleigh News & Observer,
Oct. 22.
Motoricity Oct. 25 releases on funding
and name change.
Nashville-based Griffin Technology's RadioShark is like 'TiVO' for
radio
says WSJ columnist Mossberg, but he wants more
features, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 6.
(Thursday!) Tech After Hours,
NTC's popular business networking event
for hundreds of execs, returns Oct. 28, 4:30 p.m.,
visit NTC site
for details and registration.
(Nov. 4) Tech Roundtable
convenes at the Wildhorse, with panel on
"The Spam Slam: E-mail rights and
responsibilities." See Scheduled Events below, or
visit NTC site.
The 2005
Nashville Technology Directory is
in-the-works, and YOUR NTC Member organization
will receive an entry-update request from NTC via
e-mail, within a week, to be returned asap. For
more info after Nov. 1 write
info1@technologycouncil.com
(Nov. 9) Nashville Technology
Council launches its Leadership Series of
one-day seminars, encompassing proactive
communication, assertive management, conflict
resolution, and project management. See Resources
section below for details, or visit
NTC site.
National security - Nashville's BBX/ImmuneEngine
Founder, Chairman, CTO and Co-CEO Bob Terry
reports his Green Hills-based firm has won a
Dept. of Defense contract, in collaboration with
Computer Science Corporation. BBX ImmuneEngine
will provide "host-level defense against malicious
code, enforce system configuration policies, limit
insider attack impact, prevent worms from
propagating, and automatically repair attacks
against the operating system." BBX says its
technology operates within information systems in
a manner analogous to the functioning of the human
immune system. Documents indicate total value
of the pilot award to prime CSC $1
million-plus. Fed. Comp. Week, Oct. 18.
BBX techn'y in The White House made news last
summer, here. back to top
Tech2020's Rogers sees need for talented
tech execs, increased entrepreneurial
capital
At the same time, Rogers is perplexed by
the fact that while the recent Tennessee Venture
Valley Forum (TVVF) for
entrepreneurs and venture capitalists was the most
successful of eight now held, the event still
failed to draw more funding proposals from
technology entrepreneurs, generally, and
particularly from business owners in middle and
west Tennessee.
Addressing the talent issue, Rogers is
working to secure operational funding for a
program that would, on a competitive-application
basis, recruit some of the most talented MBA
students in the mid-South to East Tennessee --
including top students from institutions like Owen
GSM at Vanderbilt and the Fuqua School at Duke --
to work summers alongside Tech2020
member-companies' executives.
To broaden participation in the 2005 TVVF
in Chattanooga, Rogers says he'll seek to reach
more executives -- e.g., particularly leaders of
business incubators -- to drive more entrepreneurs
toward applying for a chance to present, next
fall. He says he's also open to "moving the
conference around a little bit," possibly bringing
it back to Nashville, periodically. He
acknowledges the TVVF has become a franchise event
for co-sponsor and host City of Chattanooga.
This is but one of several recent
pro-technology initiatives by Tech2020, where
Rogers aims to ensure 22 fulltime-equivalent staff
and a $3 million annual operating budget produce
sustainable momentum for economic development.
For the rest of the
story, please click
here.
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Tennesse venture-capital slumps in
3Q, Tennessean, Oct. 26.
Nation: Center for Venture Research sees
uptick in 1Q Angel investing; post-seed
funding lags, Oct. 13 release here.
Today (10/26): Online chat with Heesen of Natl.
Ven. Cap. Assn., Washington Post, enter here.
Ingram Book Gp. Pres/CEO Chandler
on logistics, iPage, ops, Tennessean,
Oct.
24.
Columnist
examines Knoxville-based Southern Appalachian
venture-capital fund; leader admires
aggressive posture of Chattanooga in fostering
high-tech growth, Knox. News Sentinel, Oct.
25.
iPayment's Grimstad sues Yahoo to
learn identity of online accuser, Nash.
Bus. Journal, Oct. 22. Earlier Dollar General issue against Yahoo,
Tennessean, Feb. 2, 2004. Related iPayment,
PC Download World, Sept. 28. Earlier related
stories: The City Paper, Aug. 10. Tennessean, Aug. 10.
VoIP -- Nashville-based ISDN-Net recently
dedicated staff to pursue and support of the Voice
Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) market, expanding operations, sales
and customer-care resources. Sherry Haley has been
named project manager for ISDN-Net VoIP and
related customer-care initiatives, including a
call center expanded to 24x7, with additional
staff. VoIP will also be a primary focus of Acct.
Exec. Randall Moore, who recently joined ISDN-Net.
In related moves, ISDN-Net announced Justin
Wiseman has become the company's Security Incident
Response Coordinator. Tim Stinson shoulders
overall operations and engineering, as director;
and, Ben Brady is operations manager. The two
are WatchGuard and SonicWALL firewall certified,
respectively.
Nashville's Mike Collins of Second Generation
Capital
weighed-in on tech commercialization issues in
Medtronic suit, NashvillePost.com, Oct.
14.
Comdata launches BusinessLink for
aviation, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 13. Release Oct. 12.
Nashvillians Hagen and Epps create
Curatorial Management
System software and services that
support documentation and valuation of personal,
corporate and institutional collections of art and
other assets, Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 13, Oct. 22.
Local GridStream entrepreneur looks
toward high-speed Internet access via
electric-power lines, Tennessean, Oct. 15. FCC moves to quicken
broadband deployment, AP via Tennessean, Oct. 15. Related, Washington
Post, Oct. 15. New York Times, Oct. 15.
Universal Music Group and Warner
Music Group contract with Exigen IT to
support new royalties-processing venture, release
Oct. 25.
Nashville's StarOne Networks is
launching StarTunes, for distributing
ringtones, voice tones, graphics and video clips
for cellular phones, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 25.
Nashville's CMSsoftware, provider of
vertically integrated ERP solutions for
manufacturers and distributors operating on the
IBM eServer i5, announced CMSm5, for Microsoft.net
community. BusinessWire, Oct. 20.
Colorado-based Inflow acquires
managed-services provider i-Bridge of
Charlotte, NC, release Oct. 19.
San Jose-based Covad adds VOIP to
Nashville offerings, Nash. Bus. Journal,
Oct. 8. Related item,
Tennessean, Oct. 12.
Oak Ridge National Lab is great
resource for tech startups, Riddell
column, Times Free Press, Oct. 19.
Overlapping patents are growing
problem in nanotechnology ventures, NY
Times, Oct. 24.
SBIR alternative to venture
capital, Washington Post, Oct. 21. back
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Nashville Technology Council
officers, board of directors updated,
Tennessean, Oct. 24, scroll down here.
The 2005 Nashville Technology
Directory is in-the-works, and YOUR NTC Member
organization will receive an entry-update
request from NTC via e-mail, within a week.
IMPERATIVE your information be updated. For
further info, write after Nov. 1 via mailto:info1@technologycouncil.com
Deloitte exec David Abbott follows
Cleckner to Investment Scorecard,
NashvillePost.com, Oct. 13.
Bob Miller named vp-technology at
Magazines, com. Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 7. Buffkin Associates
release regarding search that led to Miller's
appointment, Oct. 7.
Mailnet Services added Gus Rojas as
web developer, from Microsoft Corp.
Tennessean, Oct. 10, scroll here.
IRIS Networks adds Mark Cazee as
business-development manager and Scott Overby as
assistant engineer. Nash. Bus. Journal,
p. 18, Oct. 15, not on web.
Equinox IS licenses Collector
Deluxe technology to Nebraska's HunTel
affiliate Blair Telephone, Nash. Bus. Journal,
Oct. 15, p. 16, not on web.
Nashville-based Captain D's opts
for QSR technology of Louisville,
Louisville Bus. Journal, Sept. 23.
PayMaxx announces PayLoad
ASP, release Oct. 19. Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 20. PayMaxx announces
latest co-branded partner - Employers Care Source
PMO, Oct. 5.
Nashville Public Radio uses
SiteMason solution for on-air pledge
drive, release Sept. 30. NPR also receives
Corp. for Public Broadcasting grant to ease
digital-broadcast transition, PRNewswire, Oct. 20.
Ingram Micro to distribute Coyote
Point system, Memphis Bus. Journal, Oct. 19.
Progressive Technologies opens
Nashville office with former Black Box Network
Svcs exec Tim Isbell as vp-operations,
with collegue Jeffrey Jones as national accts.
sales manager. P. 18, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 15,
not on web.
Nashville Business Journal honors
Iasis Healthcare Chairman/CEO David White
with Commitment Award, and Spheris CEO Steve
Simpson with Promise Award, p. 19, Nash. Bus.
Journal, Oct. 15, not on web.
Former Nashville Network exec Healy
now creating custom events for IT sales
with IDG group, BusinessWire, Oct. 20.
Asurion appointed Don Robert and
Jeff Post to its board of directors.
Robert is CEO, Experian North America; Post was
Pres./CEO of Fireman's Fund Insur. Co.,
Tennessean, Oct. 10. Asurion gets the
TracFone warranty business, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 11.
Evolve Learning signs Asurion
learning, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 8.
Profile: Turney Stevens of Harpeth
Capital, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 15.
Heather Parker promoted to senior
associate in Nashville office Horne Technology
Group, affiliate of Horne CPA. Nash.
Bus. Journal, Oct. 8, p. 22, not on
web.
IP and copyright: Wyatt
Tarrant & Combs (Memphis) added Douglas
Schelling in IP and tech licensing, while F. Casey
del Casino joins the copyright practice at Waller
Lansden Dortch & Davis. Tennessean, Oct. 10,
scroll here.
XO Communications names Brian
Law to head Nashville, Memphis offices,
Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 19.
Perficient Inc.'s
(Austin-Nashville) growth underscored by
Deloitte rankings. Release
here. back to top
Resource: HealthLeaders
magazine and online, here. HealthLeaders tech
reporter Gary Baldwin provided guidance
Oct. 25 for healthcare IT companies' requests for
coverage of tech-biz developments. For a copy,
write here.
Sammy Cantrell reportedly succeeds
Ken Perry at BulldogIT, Perry mum on
details of departure, plans a "break" from
business, but will return, Tennessean, Oct. 19. Related, Nash. Bus.
Journal, Oct.
15.
Technology being installed at
Nashville General Hospital at Meharry will reduce
odds of medical errors. VUMC uses CPOE
and paperless charts in outpatient settings,
expects to use EMR in VU Hospital in 2005.
Tennessean, Oct. 25.
HealthStream Learning Center
adopted by Henry Ford Health System,
release Oct. 12.
Evolved Digital signs Indiana
hospital, Nash. Bus. Journal, Oct. 25.
Baptist Women's Health Center among
adopters of MedAssets supply-chain
technology, release Oct. 14.
Sy.Med, developer of physician
credentialing application software, added
client-services and sales staff, scroll down here,
Tennessean, Oct. 10.
HIT Salaries: Being an IT pro in
health care could be good for your bank
account. Nancy Proctor, CIO of VU
Hospital and Vanderbilt Children's, comments.
SearchCIO.com, Oct. 12.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tenn.
exec on pay-for-performance evaluation of
Healthcare IT, Oct. 12, Healthcare IT News.
Former "IT" execs feel the heat when shouldering
executive roles, HealthcareInformatics Online, Oct. 2004.
Healthcare Management Systems names
Suter clinical info specialist, Green
Hills News, p. 18, Oct.21, not on web.
Former Accenture exec in
health/life sciences is named CEO of
HCA-Tennessee Oncology's Sarah Cannon Research
Institute. City Paper, Oct. 18. Tennessean, Oct. 17, p. 5E.
Nashville's Old Harding pediatric
clinic wins HiMSS Davies IT award, Oct.
14., Healthcare IT News.
Healthcare IT execs call for
billions in federal IT expenditures, FCW.com, Oct. 15.
Alliance for Nursing Informatics
formed by 18 Nursing informatics groups,
HiMSS story, Oct.
19.
SAS offers software technology to
help pharmaceutical sector with clinical
data interchange, usuing study data
tabulation model, SAS release, Oct. 18.
Subcutaneous identity chip enables
personal medical records access, NY
Times, Oct. 14. Washington Post, Oct. 14. Analysis of privacy
losss, Wash. Post, Oct.
15. back to top
Link to key in-state
government bid-tracking resources,
here. Also,
see news-summary archive, here.
RE-ISSUED State RFP 331.01-005 for teacher
recruitment includes subordinate
requirements for database and web applications,
proposals due Monday, Nov. 15.
TennCare: U. Memphis prof
says fixing TennCare requires, among other things,
adoption of new IT and disease-management
strategies column, Commercial Appeal, Oct. 17. Related
TennCare-reform facts, CA, Oct. 17.
Tennessee Volunteer e-Health
initiative aided by $5 million HHS Award.
AHRQ awarded five contracts
totaling $25 million over five years to develop
statewide networks allowing major purchasers of
health care, public and private payers, hospitals,
ambulatory care facilities, home health care
providers, and long-term care providers to use HIT
to communicate and share information. The States
are Colorado, Indiana, Rhode Island, Tennessee,
and Utah. Related story,
NashvillePost.com, Oct. 13.
Nashville to get
intellectual-property protection office from U.S.
Justice. Tennessean, Oct. 17. NashvillePost.com, Oct. 12. The City Paper, Oct. 14. DoJ release, Oct. 12
here.
Nashville Fraternal
Order of Police cite use of COMSTAT
database as lowering department morale
under Chief Serpas, The City Paper, Oct. 20.
Laura
Hansen of Protocol Experts recently became a
Metro Schools IT Project
Manager, with continuing responsibility
for Chancery Student Management System training,
plus work on Metro's Staff Development Tracking
System implementation.
State of Tennessee
listed among Necho Systems
expense-management/audit software
customers, NY Times, Oct. 12.
U.S. Homeland
Security priorities are still not clear,
Wash. Post, Oct. 17. Confusion follows
Ridge statement about Homeland Security hierarchy
for cyber- and telecom security, Washington Post,
Oct. 13.
Bush/Kerry ignoring
technology, Washington Post, Oct. 21.
Florida IT chief
discusses technology, hurricanes, and need to
rebid RFPs that attracted BearingPoint and
Accenture, transcript Oct. 22, Washington Post.
U.S. Dept. of Defense
IT budget to increase to $35.6 billion
annually by 2010, FCW, Oct. 13.
State Parole agency seeks GPS
services for parolee monitoring, RFP 324-02.406 requires Nov. 3
submission.
State Department of Education's RFP 331-04.001 for online
assessment includes web, tech-support
components, proposals due Nov. 3.
State Treasurer (retirement system)
seeks database and death-match searching and
reporting services, RFP 309-01-083 has Nov. 8
submission deadline.
RFP 316.20-105
Sect. 8 Contract Administration Software System,
due Nov. 29. back to top
USEC Inc., the E. Tenn. Economic
Council, and Oak Ridge Economic Partnership are
keeping the wraps on the announcement they have
scheduled for 1:15 p.m. CT
tomorrow, at the Oak Ridge Chamber.
The news could relate to progress in centrifuge
development underway several years in the Oak
Ridge area, or other news about unranium
enrichment for commercial reactors. Background
articles 1 - 2 - 3.
Chattanooga and Tennessee Economic
Partnership hosted unnamed corporate-relocation
prospect last weekend, industrial park
and waterfront were among attractants, Times Free
Press, Oct. 22.
Michael Saporito, an alumnus of BAI Graduate School of Bank
Operations and Technology at Vanderbilt
University, is named senior vp-operations at
Community First Bank and Trust, Columbia, TN. The
Tennessean, Oct. 14.
Le
Ann Tinker joins Chattanooga Chamber of
Commerce at IT director, Chattanooga.com,
Oct. 15.
SRC Network & Software
Solutions has announced Carl Sheffield
has joined the firm as business Solutions
consulting manager, Chattanooga Times Free Press,
Oct. 21.
In nearby Kentucky, cash-starved
GameZnFlix takes on NetFlix and others
for online rentals, reports 1,000 new weblink
affiliates as part of revenue strategy. GameZnFlix
has links to Ingram Entertainment in LaVergne and
National Fulfillment in Lebanon, Nash. Bus.
Journal, p. 1, Oct. 22.
Eastman Chemical sold its
regulatory-compliance information systems
and services unit to 3E Corp., Oct. 11 release.
UK's Binary Logic Group, developer
of WorkSafe, say it aims to create jobs in Blount
County, may add compact-disc reproduction
or tech-support centers. workSafe monitors
computer-related work patterns, recommends or
enforces workbreaks, to prevent repetitive-strain
injuries. Maryville Daily Times, Oct. 21.
Memphis's Rapsheets launches online
iDrive motor-vehicle reports, PRNewswire,
Oct. 20. Rapsheets'(TM) New
iWatch Program Allows Organizations to Keep an Eye
on Criminal Activity, release Sept. 23.
Chattanooga Airport gains control
of flychattanooga.com amid controversy
with local travel agent, Times Free Press, Oct. 23.
TVA workers being trained by
Chattanooga State and MTSU to replace retiring
workforce, Times Free Press, Oct. 9.
Memphis' Limelight Media to unveil
new digital-ad technology, Commercial
Appeal, Oct. 19. Chattanooga's new
Scrol-Lit backlit display
technology updates the outdoor billboard,
Chattanoogan.com, Oct. 18. Related, Times Free
Press, Oct. 19.
WTCI TV (PBS) in Chattanooga:
Pres/CEO Hogstrom says digital-tv
transition and multichannel services
heighten need for new station facilities, Times
Free Press, Oct. 21.
Memphis' Software Earnings now
interfaces image-based transaction-processing
technology with Silver Bullet's Ranger
API. Release.
IPIX looks for revenue rebound, Knox. News
Sentinel, Oct.
23. IPIX
expands integration of surveillance software, Oct.
15 release. IPIX expands integration of surveillance
software, release Oct. 15.
AT&T
IP technology may connect Brother
International near Memphis,
PRNewswire, Oct.
20.
Southeastern Communications
Services acquires telecom division of
Services Group, Knox. News Sentinel, Oct. 18.
Knoxville's Radio Systems Corp. adopts SMTC
manufacturing suite for engineering,
printed circuit board, product assembly, logistics
for order fulfillment. PRNewswire, Oct. 18.
FedEx's Fred Smith discusses 25
years of operations in Memphis, Memphis
Bus. Journal, Oct. 15.
Advanced Transportation Technology
Institute creates Col. Robert Diehl Award
to recognize advancements in clean transportation
technology in North America. Times Free Press, Oct. 12.
Future Electronics and WITRON
announce e-integration of facility near
Memphis nearly complete, Oct. 8 release PRN.
Saving Oak Ridge NL nuclear history
worth the investment, column, Knox. News
Sentinel, Oct. 20. Oak Ridge examined for
historical significance, Knox. News Sentinel, Oct. 19. K-27 will succeed
World War II-vintage K-25 plant at Oak Ridge
National Lab, Knox. News Sentinel, Oct. 17.
UT-Battelle reorganizes management
team, Knox. News Sentinel, Oct. 13. Related column, KNS,
Oct. 13.
Collegedale municipal IT system
upgraded, Times Free Press, Oct. 17.
Memphis Realtors launch locally
controlled property database, Memphis
Bus. Journal, Oct. 15.
The Northeast
Tennessee Technology Council announced 2004
TechStar winners Oct. 22.
Winners by category: Protokraft - Development of
New Technology; Northeast State Technical
Community College - Use of Technology In
Education; Frontier Health - Use of Technology by
Non-Profit Group/Agency; n.tara - Use of Internet
or Web Technologies; Landmark GIS (formerly
Appalachian Geographics) - Application of
Technology within a Smaller Business; Mountain
State Health Alliance - Application of Technology
within a Larger Business; ETSU Center of
Excellence for Children in State Custody and the
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry program ,ETSU
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science,
James H. Quillen College of Medicine - Community
Service; Special TechStar Champion Award,
presented to Dr. William W. Locke, President of
Northeast State Technical Community College, for
championing technology in the Northeast Tennessee
region. back
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IT/AI at
ORNL: Oak Ridge National Lab (Oct. 4
newstips release) has developed a system
that provides security experts "a dynamic data
archive plus methods to quickly analyze the
information using a variety of tools, including
intelligent software agents, geospatial modeling,
feature extraction and image and pattern
recognition." The new tools complement ORNL's
LandScan population database. Earlier release on
LandScan, here.
Former Case
Western tech transfer exec Porto named head of
tech commercialization at Oak
Ridge National Labs, NashvillePost.com, Oct. 19. ORNL Tech Transfer here. Oct. 19 ORNL release here.
Vanderbilt
Institute for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
off to a big start, VU release, Oct. 25.
Tenn. Board of Regents among
adopters of WebCT for MERLOT for
e-learning objects delivered real-time,
BusinessWire, Oct. 21.
Supercomputing expert Dunning to
leave ORNL/UT posts for supercomputing
institute at U. of Ill., AP via Knox. News
Sentinel, Oct. 17.
UT-Chattanooga selects Dell for
supercomputing, BusinessWire, Oct. 20.
Vanderbilt opts for Blackboard
technology, The VU Hustler, Sept. 15.
Nashville-based Modern Red
Schoolhouse among participants in web-based
teacher professional-development
assessment project, BusinessWire, Oct. 21.
Graduate-education opportunities
expanding dramatically in Chattanooga,
Times Free Press, Oct. 24.
Tenn. Technological University and
other TBR institutions considering online
Nursing Master's, Cookeville
Herald-Citizen, Oct. 19.
Tennessee's Electronic Library
online resources profiled, Knox. News
Sentinel, Oct. 19. Additional Knox County
databases, Knox. News Sentinel, Oct. 19.
VU students warned about identity
theft potentially associated with
thefacebook.com, VU Hustler, Sept.
3. back to top
FedEx CIO
Carter says he looking for more bang for the buck
in his $1 billion budget, sees good things
in small tech packages; meanwhile, investors may
be looking more toward non-tech companies that are
empowered by technology, rather than pure tech
plays, New York Times, Oct. 26.
The 2005 Nashville Technology
Directory is in-the-works, and YOUR NTC Member
organization will
receive an entry-update request
from NTC via e-mail, within a week. IMPERATIVE
your information be updated. For further info,
write after Nov. 1 via info1@technologycouncil.com
Homeland Security: Terrorbusters,
Inc. - Government investment in homeland
security may produce jobs and technology
byproducts...and/or a drag on the U.S. economy, NY
Times, Oct. 17. While controversy
surrounds technologies for pre-screening airlines'
passengers, entrepreneur is moving related venture
offshore, Washington Post, Oct. 16.
VU Chancelor Gordon Gee said during
NewsChannel5's Oct. 15 "News Makers"
broadcast that he believes the thing students most
need to improve in preparing for college is their
writing ability. He said that partly due to the
Internet and "e-mail writing," writing has become
a "lost art" among many students.
Nashville Technology Council
launches its Leadership Series of one-day
seminars, encompassing proactive
communication, assertive management, conflict
resolution, and project management. The
"performance-oriented," PMI Body of
Knowledge-backed Leadership Series is led by Jay
Ress of Technology Management Assocs, an NTC
professional-development partner. Each sessions
earns seven (7) professional development units
(PDUs) from PMI. Sessions: Proactive Communication
Skills and Methods (Nov. 9); Assertive Management
(Dec. 13); Project Leadership (Jan. 11); Conflict
Resolution (Feb. 8). Cost is $425 per session
($350 per session for NTC members – or reserve
spots in all four sessions for $1,200). Space is
limited. Site: BellSouth Tower downtown. For more
information, write info1@technologycouncil.com
or phone (615) 743-3160.
E-commerce:
Donna Hoffman of Sloan Center for Internet
Retailing (Vanderbilt Univ. Owen
GSM) says 'the main driver of reputation on the
Internet is fulfillment: how quickly an order is
shipped, whether items are reliably in stock, how
easy it is to find what you need and to return it
if it's not what you wanted. A reputation built
over years can be lost in months through bad
fulfillment... [in part due to] the proliferation
of chat rooms, bulletin boards and review sites
allowing customers to share their experiences
online', cited in Wall Street Journal, Oct. 25.
Hoffman also explains, 'companies can translate
local reputations onto the Web, but the process is
difficult and involves an array of different
technological and marketing strategies, [e.g.]
back-end processes to ensure swift order
processing, partnering with other companies to
generate traffic, and getting better placement'
via search engines.
Check Clearing for the 21st Century
Act clicks into effect, Memphis Bus.
Journal, Oct. 15. Related, Commercial
Appeal, Oct. 21. Knox. News Sentinel,
Oct. 19. Times Free Press, Oct. 20.
The physics that
underlies life, universe and technologies still
puzzles newest Nobel laureate, NY Times, Oct.
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CALENDAR
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item)
* (Oct. 27) East TN Technology
Council luncheon with U.S. Senate hopeful
and Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Technology 2020. Details
here.
* (Oct. 27) BioWorks Speaker Series
(Memphis, FedEx Institute),
Barry Fortner,
Ph.D., The West Clinic, addressing "The Use of
Tablet PCs in Acquiring Correct Patient
Information," Networking 11:30 a.m., Lunch &
Program, Noon; $20. More information here.
* (Oct. 28) NE TN Technology
Council, 6 p.m., Bristol Motor Speedway,
with Evelyn Hicks, VP of Ticketing and Technology.
Register via vcrymble@netntech.org or call (423)
279-9000.
* (Oct. 28) Chattanooga Technology
Council breakfast series for entrepreneurs with
early-stage technology companies,
program: "Designing, Segmenting and Positioning
Your Product Portfolio," 7:30 a.m.-9 a.m. Free for
CTC Members, $5 non-members. 317 Oak Street, M.L.
King Building. Register (423) 755-7481.
(Oct. 28)
Nashville Technology Council, Tech After
Hours, details.
* (Nov. 2) Owen
Entrepreneurship Center: Mailboxes Etc. (now a UPS
unit) Chairman Emeritus Jim Amos (also
chairman of MedVisits and Sona Med Spa and
managing partner, Eagle Alliance Partners), 5:30
p.m., Averbuch Auditorium, Owen Graduate School of
Management, Vanderbilt. Free, open to
public.
(Nov. 4) Women in Technology
Tennessee "Breaking the glass ceiling,"
panel, 4:30 p.m., Caterpillar Fin., details
here.
*
(Nov. 4) NTC Tech Roundtable program, 4-6 p.m.,
"The Spam Slam: E-mail rights and
responsibilities," Craig Bingham, IT
Manager, Bass, Berry; Bo Spessard, Associate,
Miller & Martin; Jay Graves, President,
SmartDM; David Klements, Gen. Mgr.,
Inflow/Nashville. Moderated by Geert DeLombaerde,
Editor, Nashville Business Journal. To register visit here.
(Nov. 4-5) TN Valley Corridor
Fall
Summit, Somerset, KY. Linking
homeland security and homeland prosperity.Related
story, Knox News Sentinel, Sept. 13.
OHS Director Tom Ridge scheduled to
speak.
* (Nov. 5) "Entrepreneurship: from
launch to liquidity," with professors
Germain Boer and Bruce Lynskey, 3:30-4:30 p.m.,
Rm. 106, Owen Grad. School of Management,
Vanderbilt. Registration via mercy.eyadiel@vanderbilt.edu
(Nov. 9)
Justice
Department holds technology-export security
town hall meeting at BellSouth Tower.
Register here. Related NashvillePost.com story,
Sept. 1.
*
(Nov. 9) NTC launches its Leadership Series for
professional development. See Resources, above, or
visit NTC site.
*
(Nov. 17) East TN Technology
Council luncheon, Four Founders of E. TN
Venture-backed Companies discuss raising venture
capital. See details under Venture
section, above. Register here.
* (Nov. 17) Chattanooga Technology
Council luncheon, Web Technologies, with
Chris Matthews of eLink Business Innovations,
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Chattanooga Trade &
Convention Center. For info write here.
(Nov.
18) InfraGard Mid-TN, video surveillance
integration, 1:30 p.m., Belmont
University, details here.
(Dec. 1-3) Tennessee Education Technology
Conference, link here.
(Dec. 2)
NTC Tech Roundtable, details to be announced.
*
(Dec. 9) NTC Holiday Mixer, Dan Mcguinness Pub,
1538 Demonbreun, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. Details TBA.
* (Dec. 16) InfraGard chapter
meeting, Belmont University. Speaker TBA.
Write here for info.
2005
March 17– MTSU Emerging Technologies event.
Details TBA. Contact: Dr. Charles Perry, Russell
Chair of Manufacturing Excellence, Inst.
Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies,
College of Basic and Applied
Sciences.
Aug.
24 – NTC's InfoSec Nashville 2005
information-security conference will be
Wednesday August 24, with CSI
information-security training Aug. 22, 23, 25, 26.
For further information, write info1@technologycouncil.com
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