We are hosting a job-fair/open house tomorrow (July 23) from 4pm until 8pm at our offices in Orem, Utah. If you are curious about the Utah Technical job market right now, or you know someone who is, send them by!

We’ll be taking resumes and conducting interviews, and likely playing some pretty mean Mario Kart on the wii.

SOS Engineering & Technology
1256 S. State #101 (West Doors)
Orem, Utah 84097

Local tech company Bungee Labs is hosting a FREE showing of Batman the Dark Knight this afternoon at 4:00pm. (I interviewed @ReverendTed from Bungee last Friday on the Couchcast)

We believe Utah is home to many amazing companies…and we want to get to

know more of you.

Bring your family or friends and join us this Tuesday, July 22nd, for the

4:00pm show of Batman the Dark Knight at the Jordan Commons Megaplex.

These days its very easy for small business organizations to get an internet site up and running.  A business owner can let his son, cousin, brother, co-worker, etc. design a site in Front Page and get it up on the web.

The difficult part comes when their web site has been online for a while and they don't get any traffic or they
get traffic but no sales.

Internet  Marketing is a fine art and there are dozens of things you can do.  I will outline what I feel are 5
of the most important ways to make your website more marketable.

We’re doing the July CTO breakfast a little early this month because of Pioneer day. For those of you not familiar with Utah, Pioneer day is a state holiday on the 24th of July and it’s a pretty big deal. Celebrates the day the first pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1848.

Ross Mayfield notes that in an Apple retails store "50% of the space is for retail sales and 50% for service and support." He goes on to contrast that with places like Fry's or Best Buy. I'm always amazed when I go into an Apple store: they're happening places. If you're in retail, visit an Apple store and then go back to your place. Seem kinda quiet and dead. Yeah, I thought so.

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For those that might have missed it, be sure to go check out the interview with Jason Mitchell from Wingate Web.  As a follow-up, the transcript of that sessions is posted below:

JASON MITCHELL SEGMENT

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>> Steve Spencer:  Hi, everybody.  This is Steve Spencer from the Utah Tech Spotlight.  I’m here today with Jason Mitchell from Wingate Web.  Jason, thanks for meeting with us today.

Senator Wayne Neiderhauser and Lt. Governor Gary Herbert spoke to the members of MountainWest Capital Network at the June luncheon (June 19, 2008).

I am back and finally getting to a post about my 2 weeks as an eCommerce Hippie. Two solid weeks on the road is tough. It was GOOD to get home. But I had a great time while gone, both personally and also for Doba. Internet Retailer So we exhibited at Internet Retailer for the first time. Our [...]

Typically July is a slow business month. The rush caused by the end of Q2 is now over and the businesses whose fiscal year ends on June 30th has passed. Everyone has summer vacations on their minds and summer holidays are capturing a good portion of everyone’s down time.

Until now, creating a site in Flash was a sure fire way to guarantee zero search engine visibility.

Julien Lecomte from Yahoo! is speaking about creating performant AJAX applications. The most important point: plan for performance from day 1. Interestingly many of his initial points are about telling the developer to work with the product manager and not just say “no.”

Julien references an Web Site Optimization: 13 Simple Steps by Stoyan Stefanov. Here’s some tips:

Less is more. Don’t do unnecessary things.

Scott Ruthfield from WhitePages.com is announcing a new open-source projects called Jiffy, a tool for measuring the end-to-end performance of Web sites (PDF slides). Jiffy provides real data about performance that is more complete and more fine grained than what you might get from Keynote or Gomez. Jiffy has four goals:

Employee motivation is an ever-present concern for most proactive managers.  Interestingly enough, motivation can come from both functional and dysfunctional sources. 

I’ve seen employees motivated for many different reasons: recognition, financial incentive, empowerment, personal growth, tension release, fear, and finally there’s that weird Lord of the Flies thing where employees get motivated together against another employee. 

Here’s one student that takes the “Science Fair” to the next level. Bridger Maxwell, a high school student at Utah County Academy of Sciences (UCAS) decided to create a multi-touch table for his Science Fair entry–kinda like an iPhone screen, and Microsoft Surface on a budget.

There comes a time in any business, when the original founders either retire, move on, and in some cases are pushed out. Bill Gates is no exception. I don’t think it matters who you are, running any business for as long as Bill Gates has run Microsoft, and the time for change is now.

Fortunately for everyone on the planet, Bill (can I call him Bill?) will make his final trip to the Microsoft campus as a full time employee this week. Sure he’s the Chairman and will still be involved in corporate decisions, but he really is walking away.

In the next 2-3 days we will surpass the 1 million sites/domains hosted mark across our network. That is a feat beyond all our original expectations and goals. I would like to have said that it was all in our original plan, but it wasn’t.

I’ve learned a few things in my six-year career in PR. But the biggest thing I’ve learned is what clients want. It’s a not-so-secret secret that every PR professional needs to understand or they will be doomed.

The lesson is this: What have you done for me lately?

When companies hire a PR firm, they expect results, and not just one-time results. They expect regular results. With few exceptions, that means ink. Ink by the barrel, if you will.

I’m up in Seattle today getting ready for tomorrow’s Northwest LivePitch event.  Carolynn has been working her tail off up here to host the event and things are coming together quite nicely.  As of earlier today, we had around 100 people that had RSVP’d for the event.  We also have 15 companies that have been selected to pitch with a Rockstar panel of judges th

Having a long history of both entrepreneurship and involvement with venture capital, David Carter continues to enjoy seeing new technologies reach market adoption. Currently a Manager at private venture firm Upside Investments LLC, Mr.

Recently, I was at a hardware store getting supplies for a leadership development exercise CMOE was creating for one of our workshops. The store was silent. In fact, it appeared I was the only customer shopping. As I approached the checkout lines, I wanted the quickest way to pay and get out of the store. I had two choices that were placed before me:

Choice 1: Go through the self/automated check-out and interact with a computer and scan my own items.

Choice 2: Go through the regular check out and interact with a person.