Tuesday, September 1, 2009

TechLife Update - 9.1.09

Good morning all,

The weather is crisp, kids are back in school, and the Buckeyes are playing Navy this weekend. I don't know about you but it took me about 2 hours last Saturday to get the kids school, soccer, and extracurriculars activities on my calendar. Why do I bring that up? It's because if you want to "create the world you want to live in" it's important to plan out your activities (which includes loooking on the meetup calendar) in advance.

Got some great news last week when the panelists for a CIOhio Agile Development panel discussion I'm facilitating got confirmed. Kroger, Nationwide, and The Gap will be represented on Nov 6. For you senior IT leaders out there CIOhio is a not to be missed event. Check it out here.

Here a recap of the last week in events, headlines, and startups to watch

Events:

Wed 9/2 - Ohio Web Leaders (OWL) - Building Brand YOU. Nate Riggs
Wed 9/2 - Out with the Old, In with the New: Operational Shifts from Social Media
Wed 9/2 - Digital City Project with Marc Canter (founder Macromedia (think flash) - ex silicon valleyite)
Wed 9/2 - Grow Your Business in the City of Powell
Thurs 9/3 - PD- Application Lifecycle: Security!
Fri 9/4 - E, NW - Jelly Columbus @ Sandbox
Thurs 9/10 - DEC presents...International Bootstrapper Association's Kick-off
Thurs 9/10 - Jelly @ The DEC
Thurs 9/10 - DEC presents...Bootstrapper's Pizza Lunch with Dave Bianconi
Fri 9/11 - Jelly Columbus @ QWIRK


Headlines:



Startup/Event Spotlights:

GroundWork group is THE nonprofit IT resource for other nonprofits. A great example of some of our more recent work is the Pelotonia integrated website, fundraising engine and hosted database solution. We are inviting all our friends at Columbus TechLife to attend our 4th Annual Nonprofit http://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gifInformation Technology Conference on Friday October 2 at the Fawcett Center. Please visit: http://www.groundworkgroup.org/AnnualConference2009.jsp for more details. For more information contact Tom Guy at: tguy@groundworkgroup.org

The Digital City project is a multi-angled approach to innovating workforce development. We're going to create a sustainable business model by producing on-line interactive multimedia for foundations and brands that will also enable us to build out an open "innovation platform" with shared servers, live video help and free dashboard software. the effort is a multi-city alliance and I want to make sure that Columbus is part of that alliance!

Marc Canter - marc@broadbandmechanics.com

Toobla - People are overwhelmed with the amount of data they are consuming and sharing on the web. As you find and share more and more things online, it's hard to keep track of it all. Toobla provides a visual bookmarking solution to help you collect, enjoy and share the best of the web. Toobla lets you create visual bookmarks in virtual folders - put anything you find on the web (sites, videos, images, documents, games, widgets, etc.) in your Toobla folders and share them with one simple URL through email, Twitter, Facebook or anywhere on the social web. Your folders are portable as well as sharable - and you can embed your collections as a widget on your blog or on a social networking site. Learn more at http://toobla.com/tour or read our review on TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/21/toobla-takes-over-where-magnolia-left-off/

Brian Link - brian@brianlink.me

JoeMetric - JoeMetric is getting primed to wow market researchers everywhere with an easy-to-use, efficient, inexpensive way to gather information on customer habits, desires, attitudes, and more. JoeMetric is scheduled to release two iPhone products, JoeCoupon(TM) a geo-targeted coupon service based on your personal buying desires and habits, and JoeSurvey(TM) an online survey tool that pays you while supplying valuable market research to companies.

http://joemetric.com – Adam Winter - adam.e.winter@gmail.com

KidsLinked - KidsLinked.com founder, Greg Yoakam, saw the need to develop a company that provided parents with family management tools at their fingertips. This realization led to the creation of KidsLinked.com – a one-of-a-kind resource for parents and child-care givers to discover safe and fun learning opportunities for their children.

http://www.kidslinked.com/- Greg Yoakam - greg.yoakam@metrolinked.com

ATM Central Development, LLC located in Columbus, Ohio at the Easton Town Center. The company was started in 2007 after the founder, A. Troy Miller, introduced a web application called Physician Blueprint. This application is based a unique method of collecting data from separate database systems and enabling hospital administrators to view physician profile information. ATM Central Development applies this data gathering technique for non-healthcare clients.

http://atmcentraldev.com – Councilman Troy Miller - troy@atmcentraldev.com

Polyflow - The Polyflow technology utilizes mixed dirty polymer waste as a replacement for crude oil in manufacturing valuable petrochemicals and fuels. This patented technology is being commercialized in a 2.5 ton per hour production facility. This technology addresses the $37 billion untapped market consisting of the 7% of our oil and gas that is used in the manufacturing of polymers of which 93% wind up in a landfill at the end of their useful life. Polyflow provides the environmental and profitable solution to making plastics truly recyclable.
http://www.polyflowcorp.com - Jay Schabel - Schabeljl@polyflowcorp.com

Leveraging Federal Stimulus Funding - for Healthcare IT Innovation Conference – 11.09.09 . Join us Monday November 9, 2009 as we bring together distinguished and solution-generating leadership, those involved in the evolution of health care technology, to gather, discuss and document healthcare IT ideas and solutions utilizing stimulus funding.

http://citih.osumc.edu/ - Phil Skinner - phil.skinner@osumc.edu


Peace out,
Ben

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