Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, October 7, 2015: What uniquely online content do you enjoy? We have explored the world of “The Long Tail” in the last two columns and the whole idea that the internet has enabled user-generated niche content to thrive — stuff that’s on topics so…
Official Press Release For Immediate Release October 6, 2015 Contact: Chellese Hall 601-709-8964 Chellese@mcm.ms Maurine Jackson 601-709-8978 maurine@mcm.ms XQ: The Super School Project! Nationwide roadshow engages community at the Mississippi Children’s Museum Jackson, Miss. (October 6, 2015) – What if we can innovate the high school experience? The Mississippi Children’s…
(Ridgeland, MS) - Innovate Mississippi announces that the next Startup Weekend will be held November 6-8 on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in Hattiesburg and in a partnership with the university’s Trent Lott National Center for Excellence in Economic Development and Entrepreneurship. Powered by Google for…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 30, 2015: Last week I introduced the concept of The Long Tail, which originated as a 2004 article in Wired magazine by Chris Anderson. This concept essentially outlined the phenomena that was transforming the distribution of content via the Internet through cheap…
Posted by: Contributing Columnistin Columns, Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION, TechnologySeptember 24, 2015 In my last column I shared the nationally acclaimed story about how the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center (MBMC) in Jackson kept its lights on in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by relying on their combined heat and power system. Another…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 23, 2015: “It is estimated that a week’s worth of The New York Times has more information than a person was likely to come across in his or her lifetime in the 18th century.” That’s a line from the video “Shift Happens”…
Two 2015 University of Mississippi graduates will introduce their business venture, a Web-based services that helps connect job-seekers with employers that match their personality profile, Sept. 20-22 at a pitch competition during this year’s SEC Symposium in Atlanta. View article.
Posted by: Alan Turner in Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS September 17, 2015 After graduating from Princeton and getting an MBA from New York University, Rich Sun, the new chairman for Innovate Mississippi, built a long and successful career as an investment banker and venture capital expert. Among other stops along the way, he worked…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist in Columns, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, OPINION, Technology September 10, 2015 A s we mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and reflect on the past decade we hear many stories of courage, strength and of the unity we showed as a state. One of the numbers which stood out in my mind was the…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, September 16, 2015: I wrote a few weeks ago about crowd sourcing and all the ways people and companies can go to the Internet to get various services done. By far the fastest growing type of crowd sourcing is crowd funding — the…