Archive for July, 2008

Jtree.net’s Josh James (Laughtland) on Channel 6

Follow-up to the previous post about SEO maven Josh James appearing on Channel 6 about Idaho’s hot springs. Good work, Josh!
Video here.
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Up and Coming Events in Boise

DRUPAL USERS GROUP
Ok. If you are a DRUPAL dork ; ) then have we got an event for you: Boise Drupal Users Group Meeting:

Date: Thursday August 7, 2008
Location: 1037 E. WINDING CREEK DR. EAGLE, ID 83616
Time: 5:20 pm
Topic: Drupal 101

Meeting host Joshua Brauer plans to show the “Understanding Drupal” video to kick the meeting off. [...]

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From the Web 07/29/2008

Idaho agency goes high tech with…librarian blogs? | KTVB.COM | Idaho News
More well deserved coverage for the cool Library project.
tags: ktvb, techboise, library

ID agency goes high tech with…librarian blogs? - Northwest - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington
2 days after our own mention of the libraries project (http://bit.ly/1XARoD), which had greater detailed in the comments, [...]

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Jtree.net’s Josh James to Appear on Channel 6

Not only does the Treasure Valley have people with great tech skills, we’ve got skilled technicians that also care about their community. I just found out that local SEO guru Josh James of JTree.net will appear on the Channel 6 “Boise Green Living” segment on Wednesday and Thursday night (by the way I noticed that [...]

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Boise State Student Team Named Finalist in National Google Online Marketing Contest

Straight from the Boise State News site . . .

A Boise State University student team has been named a finalist, placing in the top three out of 700 competitors, in the Americas region of the 2008 Google Online Marketing Challenge.
As regional finalist, Team AdHype — Lisa Chipman, Trevor Herbst, Kasey Keller, Chris Mendonca and Lisa [...]

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TechBoise Event Round Up

Well, if you were there you know that the TechBoise event on Wednesday at the Water Cooler was a winner! It all seems to be coming together for this nascent group. The event was the largest ever with over 50 people in attendance, pizza and beer provided by Mark Solon of Highway 12 Ventures, and [...]

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Reviewing our Commenting Policy

I feel that now is a good time to restate our commenting policy. I have even built it its own page.

Everyone is encouraged to share their opinion. As a rule we do not allow anonymous commenting on the site. I believe it keeps the conversation more civil.
If you have something to say, then say [...]

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Reactions to Rivers City Club Speech

I wasn’t able to attend Mark Rivers City Club speech but there seems to be a lot of reactions out there to it.
The Boise Weekly has a very short post regarding his comments about the Boise Hole:
But either way, the vacant lot at the corner of Eighth and Main is overvalued and underutilized, Rivers said. [...]

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Idaho Challenged by Results of the Human Development Index

TechBoise is a blog, and not a news agency, but that is still no reason for us to slip into rank boosterism. At the same time no one here wants to adopt a sky-is-falling tone. Still, amidst all the constant lists that Boise makes for being a great place to live, work, and raise a [...]

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Cautionary Tale

Those of you on Twitter or at OSCON have already seen the posts from @kveton and @turoczy about the press that Vidoop is getting as they move their corporate headquarters from Oklahoma to Portland. I think there are at least three important lessons in this article I am reposting from the Oregonian:
1) Innovation can happen [...]

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