I’ve been a fan of TED and TED Talks for years. (No really, see this blog post from 2007). I’m excited to be part of the team bringing TED to Knoxville for the first time, in the form of TEDxKnoxville. Our theme? Explore the meaning of human potential. So come on out for one-night [...]
Last week, I wrote a post on the New Streak (where I blog for work), on my participation on a panel at the Entrepreneurial Imperative 2010, a conference focused on entrepreneurship and hosted here in Knoxville, TN. I’d highly recommend this conference as it’s one of the biggest groupings of entrepreneurial minded folks I’ve seen in Knoxville. My [...]
Over the weekend I had pleasure of speaking at the East Tennessee Preservation conference in historic Rugby, TN. I’ve posted a recap of panel on using social media for historic and preservation tourism with slides and video over on the New Streak, where I blog for Moxley Carmichael. Check it out. Related articles Social media [...]
Happy to be in the running for East Tennessee’s Best Tweeter with a couple others from the team at Moxley Carmichael, including Scott Bird and Cynthia Moxley. (Cynthia’s also nominated for best blogger for The Blue Streak!) Thanks for the nomination and your votes. Please vote! Ends tonight Aug. 20! Vote for Best Tweeter Vote [...]
Image via Wikipedia Recently I was eating a great breakfast cooked by my friend Alex and we were discussing startups and entrepreneurship in East Tennessee and we started discussing “original” startups vs buying existing businessnes or franchises and the bias in the start up community that exists against the later. Granted Alex and I both have experience [...]