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Boise Blogger Meetup (Finally!) Scheduled

Well it’s taken a handful of people, 2 years and some cattle prods, but we have finally set a date for the next Boise Blogger Meetup.
Find Your Cause - Boise Bloggers
Perhaps no other forum in the world can lay claim to the heart of American culture quite the way blogging can.
State your cause ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú [...]

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Changes and Focus for the New Year

First off I would like to thank everyone who has made this an incredible year. I’m very excited about 2008 and what it will bring.
Over a year ago when I was debating how to launch this site I had a lot of questions. I knew that the only way to get those questions [...]

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part 1: what idaho can learn from germany

Interesting to see how they integrate education over the lifecourse with workforce development. It’s not as smooth as they claim, nor do the well-publicized details match reality.. but it definitely has things we can learn from. And it REALLY helps rural Germany.
One key is that this is largely driven by “demand side” considerations - what [...]

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News

Micron could still expand in Boise
Building another plant?
Next-Generation Local Search Site Launches in Boise
New search engine Grayboxx testing the waters
$185M funding for Hoku
Hoku Scientific goes through Merrill Lynch to obtain funds
Micron stock climbs on Samsung acquisition reports
Merger?
Lots of stuff happening.
Mahalo,
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News

Idahoan creates skin care products
Dermatologist founds company
Economic slump is not expected to last
The valley is coming back
Boise firm’s technology could lighten load for soldiers
Tech company here could help US soldiers with a rechargable battery
Start-ups: Small start-ups thrive in Idaho but seldom become lots biggerGrowing our gazelles
How do we move to the next step?
Hope everyone had [...]

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Boise Bloggers

Steve Nipper and I did a blog dinner a little over a year ago and have been trying to do another one ever since. We’ve only managed the one so far, we’re not doing so good.
Jason over at Philoking.com is trying to round up local bloggers and in the process has given Steve and [...]

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IEDA meeting (and IRP followup)

A quick followup re last Tuesday’s IRP board meeting after a note from last Thursday’s IEDA meeting…
IEDA is the state “trade association” for economic development & has some serious, committed, passionate talent working for our communities statewide [www.ieda.biz]. Entrepreneurial development is slowly getting on their radar screen. [Even nationally, economic development tends to focus on [...]

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Idaho’s National Allies, Part 2

Thanks for all the “cards and letters” re my prior post!
The Kauffman trip to KC was productive in many respects. Confirmed that there’s serious money out there for entrepreneurial training initiatives, especially broad partnerships, especially for K-12 & community colleges - sustainable entrepreneurship too. Potentially money for Idaho… But there are steps Idaho will [...]

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Micron gets Valleywagged

Some of you may be familiar with Silicon Valley tech gossip blog Valley Wag. Normally Valley Wag wouldn’t have much interest to or in Treasure Valley residents, but taking a departure from their own valley they posted some commentary on Appleton’s and his refusal of his yearly bonus.
Micron, a memory-chip manufacturer, had a bad [...]

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Blogrolls and Coming Changes

A couple of housekeeping items:
* The Idaho Statesman shares some link love with TechBoise
* The site is moving - servers and platforms not URL
* A call for contributors
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