http://techczar.blog.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:42:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hope you will join us at the Cool Cleveland Launch Party for LimeRibbon.com - Cleveland's newest social media website. The event will take place on December 7th, 2009 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Crop Bistro & Bar. Come share the excitement of one of the coolest ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/11/18/limeribboncom-launch-party/ Big topics and great commentary for this week's Rapid-Fire Radio (www.rapid-fireradio.com). Dial into to WHK-1420AM and listen (and hopefully engage) to John Heaney and I talk about: "Cash For Clunkers" - the real numbers New Home Tax Credit Fraud New GDP figures were released this week. What does it all mean? Decline of newspaper ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/11/01/rapid-fire-radio-week-three/ The following video details a great dialogue as read by my friend and former CIO of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Len Steinbach. It was part of the monthly Monologues and Madness series, curated by Tulis McCall. It took place at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village on Oct ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/10/14/my-friend-in-new-york/ The State of Ohio through its Third Frontier program has announced two new RFP’s for the Sensors Program and Advanced Materials Program. The Third Frontier Program is a $1.6 billion comprehensive and professionally managed initiative to build world-class research capacity, promote interaction between research and industry and commercialize R&D. These ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/10/07/third-frontier-funding-available/ I hope you will join me on September 21st @ 11:30am as I will be the guest speaker at the Sales & Marketing Executives luncheon series. The title of my presentation is Social Media: Changing Paradigms for Your Business. In this presentation I will be discussing the new paradigms of ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/09/14/tech-czar-talk/ As many of you know, I totally dig the Cleveland networking scene. Very few cities can match the depth of Cleveland's professional groups, clubs and varied interests. So when the Cleveland Professionals Group's - 2009 Cause Networking Initiative came my way, I thought it was important to share to my ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/08/07/cleveland-professionals-networking-initiative/ Last week Cleveland received a jolt of good news when it was reported in the Plain Dealer that local development group - Jacobs Investments announced a decision to build an aquarium at its PowerHouse facility in the Flats. This is an awesome announcement. I have been a huge proponent of ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/06/24/the-new-cleveland-aquarium/ Calling all Cleveland area bloggers. You and a guest are invited to blog - live - at the final dress rehearsal of Falstaff on June 17th, from 6:15pm until the final curtain. This is a great opportunity to blog and tweet about one of Cleveland's great cultural assets from "behind ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/06/08/live-blogging-opera-cleveland/ I was minding my own when my best friend, and budding cinematographer, John Heaney met up with me at Panera in Golden Gate (I know... me in the suburbs). John's blog - Orange Envelopes - is a great source of business strategy, design thinking and social media marketing. Anyway, we were ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/06/01/social-media-roi/ Just heard some great news that a number of local tech companies are getting together and sponsoring TechNic - a summer picnic for the IT players and participants in the Cleveland area. It is like a who's who list of Cleveland tech groups - Boundless Flight, BlueBridge Networks, Best Technology ... http://techczar.blog.com/2009/05/28/technic-the-summer-extravaganza/