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Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004
(No. 47)
Editor &
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Jay Ress
President
TMA
Seminars
In the
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tomorrow, Dec. 15: Please cast
your votes now, right here. (Thanks!)
Gov. Bredesen,
HP execs, Small Bus. Admin. and NFIB will announce
business matchmaking initiative,
Thursday, Dec. 16, release here (12/14).
Harry Jacobson of Vanderbilt
Medical Center says doctors' innate 'computers'
must be augmented by 'just-in-time
information' from electronic systems, to ensure
high-quality, Tennessean, Dec.
12.
Tennessee
lands federal funding for Homeland Security as Tom
Ridge departs, NashvillePost.com, Dec.
6. Related item: Nashville
Public Television (NPT), Dept. of Health,
and Sullivan County proposals for Homeland
Security-linked ITEP grants via the
program were not approved, according to Jill
Tokarsky of TEMA. ITEP winners announced
here.
Cheerful:
Goodwill
Mid-Tenn has
increased online retail revenues from $60K to
$150K per year in the
18 months since shifting its e-sales effort from
eBay to the national ShopGoodwill.com, according to
David Jenkins, director of local
retail operations.
DigiScript expands with London
office, Tennessean, Dec. 7.
Dalcon Founder and NTC President
David Condra adds Praemunio duties as
Chairman, NashvillePost.com,
Dec. 7.
PayMaxx partners with
Transactional Web, Nash. Bus. Journal,
Dec. 7.
Nashville's Provisio iTrials inks
alliance with Fleishman-Hillard Clinical Trials
Division, release
Dec. 8.
Avondale Partners achieves
profitability, may help enable Nashville
to regain financial prominence, Tennessean,
Dec. 12.
Nashville Technology Council
Board of Directors formed Board-led
committees and their chairpersons: Events
and Programs - Beth Chase, InfoWorks;
Workforce-Education - Damien Creavin, WebMD Bus. Sols.;
Membership-Sponsorship - John
Doss, Healthcare Management
Systems;
Special Interest Groups - Prior Manning, EDS.
Nashville
Technology Council Technology Census of tech
firms ends Dec.
20 (participate HERE).
Need a Management Skills
tune-up for 2005 tech
enterprise? Here's a great one,
details right here.
Gov.
Bredesen's new foundation
website offers
wealth of online resources,
complements Dolly's Imagination Library program;
related story, Knox. News Sentinel,
Dec. 14. Google
will announce today it will fund effort to put
major libraries' holdings
on Internet, to create searchable library, NY
Times, Dec. 14.
Washington Post, Dec. 14. back to top
NTC partners with Jay Ress to
enable executives to attain highest leadership
goals
IT
leadership isn't for the reluctant, the hesitant,
the faltering. It's also not for control
freaks, according to Jay Ress,
founder and principal consultant of Technology
Management Associates and sister company TMA
Seminars. Ress says that the leadership and
project-management training he has designed for Nashville Technology Council
reflects his belief that "projects in a real sense
'respond' to certain leadership traits, and among
those 'assertiveness' is the core trait for
success -- not to be confused with 'dominance' or
'coerciveness'," he quickly adds. "In fact," he
explains, "the most dramatically successful
leaders succeed by recognizing that virtually all
their followers come to their assignments intent
on 'doing the right thing', and to succeed they
need both affirmation of their freedom of
individual action and the critical value of their
accountability to their team."
The
energetic 51-year-old veteran of project
management and human-development initiatives
displays a quiet confidence, and enthusiasm
tempered by his belief that his job is to "enable
professionals to lead in a complex low-authority,
high-responsibility environments, in which
projects cut across organizational boundaries, in
which the success of the enterprise and the
viability of careers are often, perhaps too often
at stake."
While
still an IT and project-management
consultant, himself, Ress clearly feels
called to serve through his widely praised
seminars, because, as he explains it, "It doesn't
take long in the trenches to see how hard people
are really working out there, and you quickly
realize the obligation of management to support
the people they are accountable for."
"In
this context, accountability is revealed as a
two-way process," he says. Asked to
recall how he came to hold such values, he tells
of learning to paint a barn, and picking up
carpentry and other yeoman skills under the
tutelage of his immigrant Czech grandfather. He
tells of human-development work he performed under
contract in Latin America. He tells of his own IT
consulting and sales experiences with TRW,
Siemens, and others. He explains how deeply his 24
years' involvement in aikido martial arts training
and teaching has convinced him of the power of
resolving conflicts through respect, assertiveness
and forethought, rather than through blunt
aggressiveness.
Ress
also believes in sharpening his tools: At
Brandeis University, he earned two undergraduate
degrees -- in Sociology and Politics, as well as a
Master's in international relations. He is a
frequent presenter during major Project Management
Institute events nationally, regionally and
locally, and has earned PMI's coveted Project
Management Professional (PMP) and Registered Education
Provider designations.
NTC's
Ress-designed Management
Skills series begins January
11, offering through four monthly
sessions compelling lessons and experiences in
"how to organize and lead in the uniquely
demanding project environment." The series covers
in succession "Proactive Communication Skills
and Methods," "Assertive Management," "Project Leadership," and "Conflict Management."
Registration for the limited-seating class is
available now, right here.
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Celerity Systems seeks business
development, acquires Equity Position in
ei3 for online technical and engineering
solutions, release Dec. 13.
Bryson
discusses how stress led him to sell his Esper ISP
in Knoxville to Xxpansion Networks,
Knox.News Sentinel, Dec. 13.
CFED report says
Tennessee has general economic 'vitality', but
weaker on key ingredients for high-growth
companies, The
City Paper,
Times Free Press, Dec. 8.
Commercial Appeal, Dec. 8.
EmergeMemphis
taps UVision entrepreneur to lead technology
incubator, modeled after Georgia tech
initiative, Commercial Appeal,
Dec. 3.
Knoxville
to get Tennessee Valley Venture
Forum, Oct.
6-7, 2005; event has been in Chattanooga and
Nashville past four years,
Tennessean, Dec. 4.
Knox. News Sentinel, Dec. 6.
iPayment
responds to lawsuit press release,
Dec. 3,
BW. iPayment forced to retain new counsel, Nash.
Bus. Journal, Dec. 3.
NashvillePost.com,
Dec. 3.
Private Business announces 500K
shares will be repurchased, Tennessean,
Dec. 2.
Nash. Bus. Journal, Dec. 2.
Trinsic enters mid-TN market
for VoIP, NashvillePost.com, Dec. 1.
Vought, after
announcing plant closure in Davidson
County, announces major investment
at Charleston, SC, Tennessean, Dec. 2.
States lose access
to Federal and State Technology
Partnerships, may lose edge in competing
with VCs for Small Business Innovation &
Research grants, Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 10, Dec.
3, not on
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Good
Works: The folks behind
Emma – the Nashville-centered,
web-based e-mail marketing and
communications tool announced
26 honorees selected from a field of 82 charitable
organizations nominated by Emma customers to
receive gratis access to the Emma
marketing resource. The news is here.
SCSI named among Top 100 Technology
Pacesetters by accounting-industry pub.,
Tennessean, Dec. 12.
ClientLogic Corp. was named ''Center
of the Year'' and ''Best in Sector –
Telemarketing & Outsourcing'' at the UK Call
Center Association's Excellence Awards,
Tennessean, Dec. 12.
Independence Air hires Dialogic
Communications Corp.of Franklin for its
emergency-response telephone system, Tennessean,
Dec. 9, scroll down here.
Eddie Barnes, formerly of NuVox, is
Director-Recycling Solutions for EnviroSmart, Inc.,
of Nu-kote International
(Franklin). Barnes
is charged with increasing EnvironSmart's
recycling channels through independent
representatives, strategic partnerships.
(further)
ClientLogic wins UK Call Center
award, mention p. 11 City paper, Dec. 2.
IPIX
gets contract with Italy's CSG for
technology, Knox. News Sentinel,
Dec. 6.
Eastman
Chemical adopts Pylon Anywhere™ for wireless
access to e-mail and personal information
management (PIM) data, anywhere-anytime.
Release here.
Knoxville
Utilities Board implements PeopleSoft with Empower
Solutions, release Dec. 13.
Knoxville's
VoiCert, the voice-based system used by nearly 250
hospitals for insurance authorization and
precertification transactions, has surpassed 50
million covered lives. Release Dec.
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HCA's Doyle
among HIT leaders tapped: National Alliance for Health
Information Technology on Dec. 7 announced
creation of Technology Leadership Committee,
augmenting Policy committee. Technology Leadership
Committee members: Jim Adams, Healthlink Inc.;
Barry Blumenfeld, MD, Partners Healthcare System;
Charles Colander, Northwestern Memorial Hospital;
Joseph DeVenuto, Norton
Healthcare; Tom Doyle, HCA; Raymond G. Duncan, MD,
Cedars-Sinai Health System; John Jenkins, Moses
Cone Health System; John R. LaLonde, Guidant
Corp.; Patricia E. Monahan, Blue Cross Blue Shield
Association; Edward Park, athenahealth Inc.; Craig
Richardson, Health Care Connectivity Alliance,
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc.
UT and U. Memphis campuses get Army
grant for wireless mobile
telemedicine development for addressing
glaucoma, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 12.
UT Medical Group Selects MPV to
Identify Underpayments and Achieve Payor
Contract Transparency, release Dec. 13.
CyberKnife technology's real-time
imaging and robotics guide cancer
surgery, Knox. News Sentinel, Dec. 6.
Memphis groups get $1 Million
for telemedicine development,
Memphis Bus. Journal, Dec. 6.
SimMan,
manikin-based patient simulator, is onhand at
Baptist Hospital at Memphis, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 5.
RFID, supply-chain technologies
ease patient flow at Regional Med Center
at Memphis, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 5.
Gambro to pay $350 Million to
settle fraud case, AP via NY Times, Dec. 3. AP via Tennessean, Dec. 3.
Lisa Wayman, a
programmer/analyst for North Central Computer
Technologies, joined Passport Health
Communications as a software developer, Tennessean, Dec. 5,
scroll down here.
Healthcare IT
initiative by Bush Administration is not
adequately financed, NY Times, Dec. 3.
Smith Seckman Reid's Johnson says
healthcare sector resorting to Technology
for healthcare quality and efficiency, staff
shortages, Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 37, Dec. 3. While in East TN,
Brailer of ONCHIT commented on continued
importance of healthcare IT, Kingsport Times News,
Dec. 5.
Risk Management, as well as
Technology are essential in complying with
HIPAA, says Boult Cummings attorneys,
Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 38, Dec. 3.
Nashville Healthcare Career map to
be online, Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 9, Dec.
3, not on web.
(further) Caremark and Blue Cross Blue
Shield of TN commit to electronic
prescription service, Tennessean, Dec. 2.
Release, Dec. 1. back to top
Link to key in-state government
bid-tracking resources,
here. Also,
see previous issues, here.
The State of Tennessee Information
Systems Plan, 2004-2005, posted here.
TN Dept.
of Personnel issues RFP
319.02-012 for Development and
Hosting of Web-based Training Services, deadline Jan. 7.
TN F&A Capital Projects seeks
help through RFP
317.10-003 for Asset Information
Management System Maintenance and
Support Services, due Dec. 23.
TN Dept of Safety seeks
electronic Customer Management System (queuing)
via RFP
349.02-401, due
Jan. 11.
State
Merchant Services RFP 317.05-029 for
e-check acceptance, POS, debit/credit clearance,
etc.
State
RFP 335.02-535 for
review of corporate IS and
automated financial-examination systems, by Dept.
of Commerce & Insurance.
Cricket awarded 3-year, $300K
wireless phone contract by Metro Nashville
Government, Nash. Bus. Journal,
Dec. 2.
Metro Nashville Information
Technology Services stays in nation's Top 10
ranking by category, City Paper,
Dec. 2.
Glitches in Metro Nashville
Schools' implementation of Chancery student
information system software foul
production of students' transcripts, Tennessean,
Dec. 7. Federal funds help Tennessee
counties improve emergency-communications
technologies, Times Free Press, Dec.
13.
Jackson (Tenn.) law enforcement
among units adopting ImageWare booking,
ID,investigative software, release
Dec. 13.
(further) Editorial urges caution
on MLGW's interest in joining Metro
Networx broadband venture, Commercial
Appeal, Dec. 2.
Annual review of
DOEnergy presence at Oak Ridge suggests
that Information Technology remains a concern,
OakRidger, Dec. 7.
Shelby County reviews incentives
for business, Commercial Appeal,
Dec. 12.
U.S. Cybersecurity still not
assured, Editorial, Chattanooga Times
Free Press, Dec. 13.
Former
Cybersecurity czar sees aggressive assault on
Phishing, Washington Post,
Dec. 8.
Tougher
U.S. CyberSecurity actions urged by tech
executives, Washington Post,
Dec. 8. back to top
FedEx's Smith urges Memphians to
'capture the imagination of the
imaginative' to increase talent and
innovation in the region,
Commercial Appeal, Dec. 9.
Technology creates virtual
inspections of trucks in demo near
Knoxville, Commercial Appeal,
Dec. 2.
Germantown IT manager, mayor journey
to Afghanistan to discuss
improving that nation, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 2.
(further) "Innovation Valley"
marketing campaign unveiled for East
Tenn., Knox. News Sentinel,
Dec. 2. Related editorial, Knoxville News Sentinel, Dec. 12.
Odom's Tennessee Pride Sausage
endorses Actuate spreadsheet software,
release Dec. 13.
GameZnFlix expanding diztribution
sitez as buziness with TN tiez growz by
leapz and boundz, Nash. Bus. Journal,
Dec. 10.
E-Spin
nanotech company prepares to launch
manufacturing in Chattanooga in 2005,
Times Free Press, Dec. 8.
Musculoskeletal Research Institute
leverages Memphis' dominance in the
field, Memphis Bus. Journal,
Dec. 3. WorldSpice
Technologies in Memphis aims to set standard for
ISP quality of service, Commercial
Appeal, Dec. 7.
Brother expansion brings more than
jobs, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 5.
SEC
says Chattanooga's former E-brain owners lied
about software capabilities, Times Free
Press, Dec. 2.
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Nashville's ThinkLink Learning's
software and services enable Memphis students to
practice for TCAP, Commercial Appeal,
Dec. 10.
Memphian launches digital
epistolary novel and Writerware software
for fun and educational applications, corporations
are taking note for training purposes, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 10.
Tennessee Valley Corridor has
played historic role in development of U.S. Space
program, Knox. News Sentinel, Ballard
column, Dec. 12.
Tennessee groups receive EPSCOR
grants, Tennessean, Dec. 11.
VU reports: American High
School Internet Mathematics Competition
(AHSIMC) was founded by Bradley Metrock, a
Vanderbilt Owen GSM student who participated in
competitive mathematic events while in high
school.
Vanderbilt researcher comments on
efforts to create 'expressive speech
synthesis' with emotional traits in voice
systems, Scotsman.com.
David A. Bassett is inside sales
contract specialist for Interactive Solutions
Inc., Franklin. Bassett was with the
Vanderbilt Virtual School and the
Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Interactive, of Memphis, supports
distance learning, videoconferencing, telemedicine and
audiovisual installations. Tennessean, Dec. 12, here.
Landrum donation to
Austin Peay State University follows 30 years in
IT and education careers, Tennessean, Dec. 5.
Gallatin native, MTSU grad Don
Reynolds says he'd like to return from
Texas to start a college in Davidson or
Shelby Counties to study exclusively Energy, Nash.
Bus.Journal, Dec. 10, not on web.
Electronic Books are latest front in
push to expand libraries online services,
NY Times, Dec. 9.
Tennessee History for Kids Inc.
launches educational website, Nash. Bus.
Journal, Dec. 3. back to top
Resilience can kill enterprise
performance? Northpoint,
which is expanding Nashville presence,
offers seven provocative findings from its ongoing research, click
on Research, then under Primary Research click on
"7 Rules for Resilience and Business Continuity."
Music artists not deeply
concerned about file-sharing, according to Pew
report, NY Times, Dec. 6.
Gartner report project massive consolidation
in IT sector, AP via Commercial Appeal, Dec. 4.
Internet addicts take high-tech
timeout to break hold of compulsion, Commercial Appeal, Dec. 12.
Some of biggest e-commerce sites,
including Amazon.com, have crashed during holiday
crush, NY Times, Dec. 13.
P2P Patrol Site goes
active to combat child pornography, NY Times, Dec. 13.
Trust is at the center of building
communities of customers, voters, others, NY
Times, Dec. 10.
Supreme Court to review Grokster
file-sharing victory, NY Times, Dec. 11. Washington Post, Dec. 11.
Comcast cable speeds rise to meet
consumer demand for video transmission, Times Free
Press, Dec.
11.
Electronic Books are latest front
in push to expand libraries online services, NY
Times, Dec.
9.
BellSouth reports passing 2 millionth DSL
customer milestone, Memphis. Bus.
Journal, Dec. 6.
Dell Inc. benefits through
industrial-recruitment incentives in North
Carolina are second-guessed, News & Observer,
Dec.
5.
Chinese giant Lenovo said to be the
prospective buyer of IBM PC business, NY
Times, Dec. 4.
President Bush signs
Internet tax ban, AP via Washington Post,
Dec. 3.
MailNet Services' Tom Herrmann
provides update on Direct-Mail
effectiveness, Nash. Bus. Journal, p. 25,
Dec. 3, not on web.
Snocap is Fanning's attempt to find a way for
music publishers to profit from file-sharing,
NY
Times, Dec. 3.
U.S. Supreme Court will review role of
Cable companies relative to rivals in broadband
market, AP via Commercial Appeal,
Dec.
4. AP via NY Times,
Dec.
4. NY Times, Dec.
3. Washington Post,
Dec.
4.
Trust is at the center of building
communities of customers, voters, others,
NY Times, Dec. 10.
Supreme Court to review Grokster
file-sharing victory, NY Times, Dec. 11. Washington Post, Dec. 11.
Comcast cable speeds rise to meet
consumer demand for video transmission,
Times Free Press, Dec. 11. back
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(Dec. 14) MT-JUG and WebSphere User Groups celebrate merger
and holidays, Two
Doors Down, 1524A Demonbreun Street, Nashville,
5 p.m. Free food and beverage. RSVP: (615)
780-0020
(Dec. 14) InfraGard: Maj. Gen.
Jerry D. Humble, TN. Office of Homeland
Security. 7 p.m., Belmont Univ., details
here.
(Dec. 15) Chatta. Tech Council
Luncheon: Network Security and
Information Security Management, Joseph Dell,
Chief Technology Officer for Vigilar, Inc., 11:30
a.m., info here
or (423) 755-7481.
(Dec. 15) East TN Technology
Council luncheon, Speaker: U.S. Rep. John
Duncan, visit here or write RSVP@tech2020.org, call (865)
220-2020.
(Dec. 16)
InfraGard chapter meeting, Belmont
University. Speaker TBA. Write
here for
info.
(Dec. 21) PMI Nashville
chapter meeting, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.,
Holiday Inn Select. Details here.
2005
(Jan. 11) NTC Management Skills
series begins. Presenter Jay Ress.
Details here.
(Jan. 13) NTC Tech Roundtable, program on
IT corporate valuation. See Venture section
above.
(Jan. 19-20) Tennessee
Cyber-Infrastructure Initiative:
Conference on Computational Applications, papers
invited. Murfreesboro, TN. For further
information, write Penny Morris
or George Garrison.
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(Jan. 19) David Williams on Strategic
Planning, Chattanooga Technology Council,
11:30 a.m., Trade Center, rsvp here.
(Jan
25) WiTT monthly meeting, with Alan Tackett and
Mary Dietrich, Directors of Vanderbilt
University’s ACCRE (Advanced Computing Center for
Research and Education) will speak.
Vanderbilt Hill Center, 1231 18th Avenue South,
4:30 p.m. Details here.
(Jan. 26)
HealthLeaders
regional IT leadership conference, Memphis.
(Feb.
15) NTC Technology! Nashville 2005. NTC's
annual flagship event. For sponsorship info, write
info1@technologycouncil.com
(Feb. 16) Nashville Capital Network program
on "Organizing Your Business": Moderator Paul Wallace
(American Healthways); Stuart Campbell, Stites
& Harbison; Paige Davidson, Bass Berry; Carig
Buffkin, Buffkin Assocs.; Jon Billington, Ernst
& Young; Stuart McWhorter, Clayton Assocs. No
charge or advance registration required. 5:30
p.m.-7 p.m., Averbuch Auditorium, VU Owen Graduate
School of Management.
* (Feb. 23) Chattanooga Technology
Council luncheon, David McGee, author
Ford Tough: Bill Ford and the Battle to Rebuild
America's Automaker, 11:30 a.m., Trade Center.
Details here.
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(March 16) Chattanooga Technology Council, 11:30
a.m., Venture Capital Panel. Details here.
(March 17) – MTSU Emerging Technology in
Manufacturing event. Details
here.
Contact: Dr. Charles
Perry,
Russell Chair of Manufacturing Excellence, Inst.
Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies,
College of Basic and Applied
Sciences.
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(April 5) Leadership Music
Digital Summit, Belmont Curb Center, Nashville,
details available in January.
(May 18) – NTC Nashville Technology
Innovation Conference will be Wednesday,
May 18, 2005, with emphasis on innovations that
address current and emerging technology needs of
enterprises large and small. The unprecedented NTC
event will be at BellSouth Auditorium, downtown
Nashville. Speakers currently confirmed include
execs from Symantec, IBM, Brooktrout, CapGemini,
Tacit Networks, J.P. Morgan. Registration,
sponsorship, exhibit and related details are
forthcoming. Info, write info1@technologycouncil.com
(July 12-15) Tenn.
Valley Corridor 2005 National
Summit,
Washington, D.C.
(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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